LLM Job Trends in the East of England

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 151 131
Rank change year-on-year +59 -20 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 70 31 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.69% 0.87% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.00% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 23 18 5
10th Percentile - £47,500 £54,650
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,370 £77,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -60.56% -9.41% -
75th Percentile £60,625 £100,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £93,400 - £94,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £77,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year +12.90% -7.46% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

LLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,121 3,107 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.57% 86.72% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 1,233 1,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LLM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

LLM job vacancy trend in the East of England

LLM
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing LLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LLM in the East of England

LLM
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +60 59 £30,370 -65.68% 2
Hertfordshire +13 8 £76,250 -23.75% 5
Essex -12 3 £65,000 -26.55% 2
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (45.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Amazon Alexa
2 5 (7.14%) AWS
3 4 (5.71%) Azure
4 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.29%) GCP
4 3 (4.29%) Serverless
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.43%) Figma
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Big Data
1 4 (5.71%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.29%) Tableau
3 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.43%) Parquet
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
General
1 35 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (45.71%) German Language
3 13 (18.57%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.43%) Billing
5 1 (1.43%) Games
5 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Senior
2 8 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (5.71%) Developer
4 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (4.29%) Data Science Developer
5 2 (2.86%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Data Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Principal Cloud Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (2.86%) Research Scientist
5 2 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 2 (2.86%) Software Engineer
6 1 (1.43%) Designer
6 1 (1.43%) Development Specialist
6 1 (1.43%) Digital Designer
6 1 (1.43%) Senior Designer
6 1 (1.43%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.86%) HTML
1 23 (32.86%) JSON
1 23 (32.86%) Regular Expression
1 23 (32.86%) XML
2 6 (8.57%) PyTorch
2 6 (8.57%) TensorFlow
3 4 (5.71%) scikit-learn
4 3 (4.29%) Hugging Face
4 3 (4.29%) Matplotlib
4 3 (4.29%) NumPy
4 3 (4.29%) Pandas
4 3 (4.29%) Seaborn
5 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.86%) Kafka
5 2 (2.86%) Node.js
5 2 (2.86%) Nuxt
5 2 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.86%) React
5 2 (2.86%) Vue
6 1 (1.43%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 42 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 23 (32.86%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (8.57%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.43%) CUDA
6 1 (1.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) AI
2 37 (52.86%) Generative AI
3 32 (45.71%) Analytical Thinking
3 32 (45.71%) Open Source
4 26 (37.14%) Data Analysis
5 20 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 7 (10.00%) Data Science
8 6 (8.57%) Analytics
8 6 (8.57%) Data Analytics
8 6 (8.57%) Natural Language Processing
9 5 (7.14%) Software Engineering
10 4 (5.71%) Agile
10 4 (5.71%) Containerisation
10 4 (5.71%) Reinforcement Learning
11 3 (4.29%) Data Munging
11 3 (4.29%) Deep Learning
11 3 (4.29%) Roadmaps
11 3 (4.29%) Statistical Modelling
11 3 (4.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.14%) Python
2 3 (4.29%) R
2 3 (4.29%) SQL
3 1 (1.43%) C
3 1 (1.43%) C++
3 1 (1.43%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 57 (81.43%) Degree
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.43%) MCP
3 1 (1.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) GDPR
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.43%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (47.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.43%) Adobe
3 1 (1.43%) Foundry