LLM Job Trends in the South West

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 163 180 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 14 9 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.28% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.25% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £42,500 - £46,306
25th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £50,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £55,000 £64,038
Median % change year-on-year +43.18% -14.11% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,250 £78,459
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,700 £96,539
England median annual salary £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +7.94% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
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 West

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

LLM job vacancy trend in the South West

LLM
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for LLM in the South West

LLM
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the South West 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
Bristol +13 6 £45,000 -18.18% 16
Devon +3 3 £90,000 - 15
Dorset - 3 £80,000 - 16
Gloucestershire +23 2 - - 14
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
1 1 (7.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Aerospace
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 2 (14.29%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Science Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Pandas
2 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.14%) Faiss
3 1 (7.14%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.14%) LangChain
3 1 (7.14%) LangGraph
3 1 (7.14%) NumPy
3 1 (7.14%) Ollama
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.14%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Reinsurance
2 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) CUDA
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) AI
2 8 (57.14%) Data Science
2 8 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
5 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
5 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Vision
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Innovative Thinking
6 3 (21.43%) Project Management
6 3 (21.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 2 (14.29%) Analytics
7 2 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
7 2 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 2 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
4 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA