LLM Job Trends in England

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 410 597
Rank change year-on-year +136 +187 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 404 290 83
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.60% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.66% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 206 158 64
10th Percentile £48,125 £52,500 £50,550
25th Percentile £62,500 £69,063 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £108,125
90th Percentile £132,500 £101,625 £137,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

LLM job vacancy trend in England

LLM
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LLM in England

LLM
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London +168 254 £95,000 +11.76% 242
East of England +57 65 £30,370 -60.56% 122
South East -3 33 £65,000 -15.58% 261
North of England -12 19 £75,000 -22.08% 144
South West +17 14 £78,750 +43.18% 94
North West +10 13 £75,000 -18.92% 59
Midlands +4 10 £70,000 -9.09% 74
West Midlands +16 7 £79,250 +2.92% 25
Yorkshire -21 4 £71,250 -28.75% 58
East Midlands -20 3 £62,500 -18.83% 46
North East +10 2 £62,500 -29.38% 27
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 15 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.22%) Appian
4 9 (2.23%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.24%) Confluence
5 5 (1.24%) IIS
5 5 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.74%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 45 (11.14%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.73%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 127 (31.44%) Azure
2 121 (29.95%) AWS
3 58 (14.36%) GCP
4 35 (8.66%) Vertex AI
5 32 (7.92%) Amazon Bedrock
6 31 (7.67%) Power Platform
7 29 (7.18%) Azure AI
8 24 (5.94%) GitHub
9 19 (4.70%) Anthropic Claude
10 17 (4.21%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.96%) SaaS
11 16 (3.96%) Serverless
12 15 (3.71%) Azure Machine Learning
13 14 (3.47%) Amazon Alexa
14 13 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.72%) Vercel
16 10 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.50%) AMQP
1 2 (0.50%) Broadband
1 2 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.68%) Pinecone
2 26 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 16 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.71%) Power BI
5 14 (3.47%) Hadoop
6 12 (2.97%) Big Data
6 12 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 12 (2.97%) Tableau
7 10 (2.48%) MySQL
7 10 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.73%) Weaviate
10 5 (1.24%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.99%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.99%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.74%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (5.94%) MLflow
2 21 (5.20%) Git
3 11 (2.72%) GitLab
4 8 (1.98%) Vite
5 7 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.99%) JIRA
7 2 (0.50%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.50%) Mocha
7 2 (0.50%) webpack
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 123 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 112 (27.72%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (14.60%) Finance
4 44 (10.89%) German Language
5 28 (6.93%) Marketing
6 25 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.70%) Legal
8 16 (3.96%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.71%) Banking
9 15 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.71%) Law
10 11 (2.72%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.48%) Retail
12 8 (1.98%) Italian Language
12 8 (1.98%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.73%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 128 (31.68%) Senior
2 61 (15.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 49 (12.13%) Lead
4 40 (9.90%) Consultant
5 35 (8.66%) Developer
6 33 (8.17%) Senior Consultant
7 28 (6.93%) Gen AI Consultant
8 23 (5.69%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.20%) Data Scientist
10 20 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 18 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 15 (3.71%) Lead Developer
13 14 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 13 (3.22%) Architect
15 12 (2.97%) Analyst
15 12 (2.97%) Commercial Analyst
15 12 (2.97%) Commercial Data Analyst
15 12 (2.97%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.97%) Procurement Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (21.29%) LangChain
2 65 (16.09%) PyTorch
3 58 (14.36%) TensorFlow
4 46 (11.39%) React
5 39 (9.65%) HTML
5 39 (9.65%) scikit-learn
6 37 (9.16%) Pandas
7 35 (8.66%) JSON
7 35 (8.66%) XML
8 34 (8.42%) Hugging Face
9 32 (7.92%) REST
10 30 (7.43%) FastAPI
11 29 (7.18%) Regular Expression
12 25 (6.19%) LangGraph
13 22 (5.45%) RESTful
14 21 (5.20%) NumPy
15 18 (4.46%) Next.js
16 16 (3.96%) Kafka
16 16 (3.96%) Vue
16 16 (3.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (18.07%) Onboarding
2 55 (13.61%) AI Agents
3 45 (11.14%) Cloud Native
4 37 (9.16%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (7.18%) Linux Command Line
6 20 (4.95%) Algorithms
7 14 (3.47%) Low-Code
8 13 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (2.97%) FMCG
9 12 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.24%) Hackathon
11 5 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.24%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.99%) CUDA
12 4 (0.99%) Cyberattack
12 4 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.99%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.18%) Unix
2 11 (2.72%) Android
3 7 (1.73%) Windows
4 4 (0.99%) Linux
4 4 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (98.02%) AI
2 220 (54.46%) Machine Learning
3 172 (42.57%) Generative AI
4 104 (25.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 101 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 95 (23.51%) Data Science
7 90 (22.28%) CI/CD
7 90 (22.28%) Prompt Engineering
8 82 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
9 75 (18.56%) MLOps
10 74 (18.32%) Analytics
10 74 (18.32%) Software Engineering
11 70 (17.33%) Agile
11 70 (17.33%) Open Source
12 60 (14.85%) Decision-Making
13 58 (14.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 54 (13.37%) Roadmaps
14 54 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
15 53 (13.12%) Containerisation
16 51 (12.62%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 208 (51.49%) Python
2 68 (16.83%) SQL
3 34 (8.42%) TypeScript
4 30 (7.43%) Java
5 26 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.20%) C#
7 17 (4.21%) Go
7 17 (4.21%) R
8 10 (2.48%) PHP
9 8 (1.98%) C++
10 5 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.24%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.24%) Scala
11 3 (0.74%) Bicep
12 2 (0.50%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) C
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) Fortran
13 1 (0.25%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 183 (45.30%) Degree
2 47 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (7.43%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.44%) Master's Degree
4 26 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.47%) MCP
5 14 (3.47%) PhD
6 9 (2.23%) MBA
7 7 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.99%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.99%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.99%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.99%) OSCE
10 4 (0.99%) OSCP
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.72%) QA
4 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (2.23%) GDPR
5 6 (1.49%) EU AI Act
6 4 (0.99%) SLA
7 3 (0.74%) NCSC
7 3 (0.74%) NIST
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (17.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (17.08%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.43%) Terraform
3 6 (1.49%) Grafana
3 6 (1.49%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.99%) Ansible
5 3 (0.74%) Argo
6 1 (0.25%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 77 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 70 (17.33%) OpenAI
3 40 (9.90%) Google
4 27 (6.68%) Databricks
5 12 (2.97%) UiPath
6 11 (2.72%) Foundry
7 9 (2.23%) Automation Anywhere
8 5 (1.24%) BT
9 4 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (0.99%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.99%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.74%) Adobe
11 2 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.50%) iManage
11 2 (0.50%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.25%) Informatica
12 1 (0.25%) Palantir
12 1 (0.25%) Samsung
12 1 (0.25%) SimCorp