LLM Job Trends in the Midlands

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 212 227
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 10 28 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.44% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 9 19 2
10th Percentile £54,250 £41,200 £66,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,250 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £111,000 - £96,750
England median annual salary £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,328 5,757 4,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.33% 90.41% 86.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,508 2,513 4,092
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

LLM job vacancy trend in the Midlands

LLM
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing LLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LLM in the Midlands

LLM
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +19 7 £79,250 +2.92% 20
East Midlands -21 3 £62,500 -18.83% 41
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (10.00%) Datadog
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Head of Data Science
2 2 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 9 (90.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (60.00%) Data Science
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (30.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (20.00%) Conversational UI
6 2 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (20.00%) Deep Learning
6 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (20.00%) MLOps
6 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Argo
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) UiPath