LLM Job Trends in the North of England

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 129 371
Rank change year-on-year -99 +242 +41
Permanent jobs citing LLM 110 207 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.56% 2.54% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 2.70% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 99 9 9
10th Percentile - £61,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £33,750 £91,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £110,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -44.17% +55.86% +66.06%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £85,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £117,260 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,677 7,663 15,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.08% 93.93% 79.90%
Number of salaries quoted 9,861 3,652 11,632
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

LLM job vacancy trend in the North of England

LLM
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

LLM
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for LLM in the North of England

LLM
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North West -8 64 £61,418 -44.17% 88
Yorkshire -105 31 £70,000 - 46
North East -41 15 £48,000 - 16
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 28 (25.45%) Jupyter
2 4 (3.64%) CMS
2 4 (3.64%) WordPress
3 1 (0.91%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (27.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.45%) AWS
2 36 (32.73%) Azure
3 28 (25.45%) Cloud Computing
4 16 (14.55%) GCP
5 10 (9.09%) SaaS
6 6 (5.45%) GitHub
6 6 (5.45%) Pulumi
7 5 (4.55%) ChatGPT
8 4 (3.64%) n8n
8 4 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.64%) Zapier
9 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.82%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.91%) npm
11 1 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Big Data
1 8 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.73%) Neo4j
3 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.91%) MySQL
5 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Visual Studio Code
2 9 (8.18%) Git
3 4 (3.64%) GitLab
3 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.82%) Vite
5 1 (0.91%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.91%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (0.91%) JIRA
5 1 (0.91%) MLflow
General
1 38 (34.55%) Finance
2 34 (30.91%) Retail
3 29 (26.36%) Manufacturing
4 14 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.64%) Legal
6 4 (3.64%) Marketing
7 3 (2.73%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Local Government
8 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.91%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (25.45%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 28 (25.45%) Programmer
1 28 (25.45%) Trainee
1 28 (25.45%) Trainee Programmer
2 21 (19.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 13 (11.82%) Developer
4 9 (8.18%) Senior
4 9 (8.18%) Software Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Data Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (6.36%) Lead
7 6 (5.45%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Data Scientist
7 6 (5.45%) Head of AI
7 6 (5.45%) Security Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Data Scientist
8 5 (4.55%) Principal Data Scientist
8 5 (4.55%) Technical Leader
9 4 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.27%) scikit-learn
2 29 (26.36%) NumPy
3 28 (25.45%) Hugging Face
3 28 (25.45%) Matplotlib
3 28 (25.45%) Pandas
3 28 (25.45%) Streamlit
4 23 (20.91%) LangChain
5 10 (9.09%) .NET
6 9 (8.18%) LlamaIndex
6 9 (8.18%) React
7 6 (5.45%) JWT
7 6 (5.45%) OAuth
7 6 (5.45%) OAuth2
7 6 (5.45%) OpenID
7 6 (5.45%) REST
7 6 (5.45%) SAML
8 5 (4.55%) CSS
8 5 (4.55%) EDI
8 5 (4.55%) LangGraph
8 5 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.45%) Algorithms
2 23 (20.91%) AI Agents
3 14 (12.73%) Cloud Native
4 11 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 9 (8.18%) Life Science
7 4 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (3.64%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.91%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.91%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (99.09%) AI
2 70 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 58 (52.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 50 (45.45%) Prompt Engineering
5 42 (38.18%) Workflow
6 33 (30.00%) Data Privacy
6 33 (30.00%) Visualisation
7 32 (29.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 32 (29.09%) Software Engineering
8 30 (27.27%) Conversational UI
9 29 (26.36%) OO
9 29 (26.36%) OOP
10 28 (25.45%) Customer Service
10 28 (25.45%) Neural Network
10 28 (25.45%) Sentiment Analysis
11 25 (22.73%) CI/CD
12 24 (21.82%) Analytics
12 24 (21.82%) Generative AI
13 23 (20.91%) Decision-Making
14 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 71 (64.55%) Python
2 19 (17.27%) C#
3 12 (10.91%) SQL
4 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.36%) Java
6 6 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.64%) Go
8 1 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (25.45%) AWS Certification
1 28 (25.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.64%) Degree
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Terraform
2 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.82%) Foundry