LLM Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 10 12 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.99% 2.99% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 3.59% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 0
10th Percentile £69,250 £77,500 -
25th Percentile - £80,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 -
90th Percentile - £102,500 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £81,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +1.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 386 334 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.74% 83.29% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 170 110 220
10th Percentile £27,925 £34,112 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,406 £45,000 £35,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

LLM
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing LLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LLM in Northern Ireland

LLM
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 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
County Antrim -1 9 £90,000 +5.88% 30
County Armagh - 1 - -
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Node.js
2 5 (50.00%) Next.js
2 5 (50.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (40.00%) Vue
4 1 (10.00%) EDI
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) LangChain
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Software Delivery
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
5 1 (10.00%) Logistics
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) RBAC
5 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (10.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (40.00%) C#
4 4 (40.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI