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 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 240 248 271
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 19 39 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.18% 0.43% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.47% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 9
10th Percentile £58,750 - £46,306
25th Percentile £59,183 £77,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £96,250 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +3.74% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £110,000 - £99,231
England median annual salary £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.55% -

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 8,582 8,228 7,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.13% 90.69% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,592 3,663 5,959
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -1.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,650 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 13 January 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 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
North West +19 13 £75,000 -18.92% 64
Yorkshire -17 4 £71,250 -28.75% 63
North East +3 2 £62,500 -29.38% 29
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) Power Platform
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Local Government
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Lead
2 6 (31.58%) Data Scientist
2 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Lead Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Software Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) .NET
2 5 (26.32%) React
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) EDI
4 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.26%) Flutter
4 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.26%) LangChain
4 1 (5.26%) Next.js
4 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) AI Agents
2 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) AI
2 9 (47.37%) Machine Learning
3 7 (36.84%) Data Science
3 7 (36.84%) Generative AI
4 6 (31.58%) Backlog Refinement
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 6 (31.58%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (31.58%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) Predictive Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Secure Coding
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Statistical Analysis
5 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
6 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Foundry
3 1 (5.26%) Cognos
3 1 (5.26%) OpenAI