LLM Job Trends in the South East

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring LLM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 234 294
Rank change year-on-year -3 +60 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 33 72 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.32% 0.80% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.91% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 10 28 1
10th Percentile £52,250 £60,950 -
25th Percentile £61,563 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,500 - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +7.94% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

LLM job vacancy trend in the South East

LLM
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LLM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for LLM in the South East

LLM
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +9 20 £90,000 +24.14% 94
Berkshire -4 19 £87,500 +20.69% 70
Surrey -4 7 £57,500 -42.50% 19
East Sussex +6 2 £65,000 -26.55% 19
Kent -14 2 £68,750 - 20
Hampshire +30 1 £65,000 -26.55% 21
Oxfordshire +15 1 £125,000 +62.34% 8
Middlesex -21 1 - - 3
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (15.15%) IIS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Snowflake
4 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Figma
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) Power BI
2 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
2 7 (21.21%) Tableau
3 5 (15.15%) Big Data
3 5 (15.15%) Data Mining
3 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.03%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.03%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) MLflow
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 17 (51.52%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (51.52%) Marketing
2 12 (36.36%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Avionics
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
1 12 (36.36%) Commercial Analyst
1 12 (36.36%) Commercial Data Analyst
1 12 (36.36%) Data Analyst
1 12 (36.36%) Procurement Analyst
1 12 (36.36%) Senior
2 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Data Science Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Senior Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Digital Designer
6 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Digital Designer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Play Framework
1 5 (15.15%) TensorFlow
2 4 (12.12%) LangChain
2 4 (12.12%) scikit-learn
3 3 (9.09%) Keras
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) LangGraph
4 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.03%) Flask
5 1 (3.03%) Hugging Face
5 1 (3.03%) ModSecurity
5 1 (3.03%) NumPy
5 1 (3.03%) Pandas
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Analytical Mindset
1 12 (36.36%) FMCG
2 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
4 3 (9.09%) AI Agents
4 3 (9.09%) Life Science
5 1 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.03%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.03%) Social Media
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (93.94%) AI
1 31 (93.94%) Machine Learning
2 23 (69.70%) Computer Science
3 21 (63.64%) Decision-Making
4 19 (57.58%) Analytics
5 17 (51.52%) Actionable Insight
5 17 (51.52%) Data Visualisation
5 17 (51.52%) Economics
5 17 (51.52%) Mathematics
5 17 (51.52%) Visualisation
6 14 (42.42%) Generative AI
7 13 (39.39%) Data Analytics
7 13 (39.39%) Storytelling
8 12 (36.36%) Benchmarking
8 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (36.36%) Matrix Organization
8 12 (36.36%) Process Management
8 12 (36.36%) Trend Analysis
9 11 (33.33%) Data Science
10 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) SQL
3 7 (21.21%) R
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) Scala
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (72.73%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) Master's Degree
3 5 (15.15%) MBA
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Argo
2 1 (3.03%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) BT
1 5 (15.15%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Adobe
2 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.03%) Samsung