LLM Job Trends in the North West

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 187 185
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 12 22 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.20% 0.42% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.47% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 3
10th Percentile - £68,125 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £77,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £84,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -10.79% -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile - - £107,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £77,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year +12.90% -7.46% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,122 4,712 3,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.23% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 2,332 2,655
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 West

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

LLM job vacancy trend in the North West

LLM
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in the North West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for LLM in the North West

LLM
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Manchester +25 6 £110,000 +44.74% 251
Cheshire -13 5 £75,000 -15.25% 104
Cumbria - 1 £90,000 -
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
1 5 (41.67%) Lead Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) React
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (8.33%) LangChain
2 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) AI Agents
2 4 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 5 (41.67%) Backlog Refinement
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) Unit Testing
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
4 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (33.33%) Secure Coding
5 2 (16.67%) Data Science
5 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (8.33%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
1 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cognos
2 1 (8.33%) Foundry