LLM Jobs in the UK excluding London

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring LLM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LLM over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 676 744
Rank change year-on-year +524 +68 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 841 86 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.12% 0.11% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 0.14% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 36 45 2
10th Percentile £45,625 £46,306 £45,625
25th Percentile £48,713 £50,000 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £70,576 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +6.53% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,539 £89,875
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LLM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing LLM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Midlands +264 291 £60,000 -20.00% 12
South East +280 284 £90,000 +38.46% 37
North of England +200 208 £110,000 +41.41% 80
East Midlands - 181 £42,000 - 3
Yorkshire +153 122 £70,000 -10.01% 14
West Midlands +159 110 £75,000 - 9
North West +64 71 £110,000 - 53
South West +123 32 £55,000 -4.35% 16
North East - 15 - - 13
Scotland +107 13 £50,445 -28.52% 36
East of England +61 12 £62,000 -34.74% 45
Wales - 1 - - 10
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.73%) Jupyter
2 6 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.24%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 32 (3.80%) AWS
2 25 (2.97%) Azure
3 20 (2.38%) GCP
4 15 (1.78%) Vertex AI
5 13 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (0.71%) GitHub
6 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (0.59%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.48%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (0.48%) Serverless
8 4 (0.48%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.36%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.24%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.24%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.24%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (0.12%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.12%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.12%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.85%) Big Data
2 15 (1.78%) Data Mining
3 6 (0.71%) MySQL
4 4 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.48%) Tableau
5 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.36%) Redis
5 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.24%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (0.24%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.12%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.12%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.12%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) Power Query
7 1 (0.12%) TigerGraph
7 1 (0.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (1.78%) Git
2 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.24%) JIRA
2 2 (0.24%) Vite
2 2 (0.24%) webpack
3 1 (0.12%) GDB
3 1 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.12%) MLflow
3 1 (0.12%) WinDbg
General
1 735 (87.40%) Retail
2 720 (85.61%) Manufacturing
3 192 (22.83%) Dutch Language
3 192 (22.83%) Finnish Language
3 192 (22.83%) Norwegian Language
4 73 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (6.06%) Finance
6 48 (5.71%) Catalan Language
7 46 (5.47%) Social Skills
8 42 (4.99%) Law
9 29 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.26%) Legal
11 11 (1.31%) Banking
12 8 (0.95%) Games
13 4 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Automotive
15 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.12%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 720 (85.61%) Trainer
2 66 (7.85%) Senior
3 29 (3.45%) Data Scientist
4 27 (3.21%) Lead
5 23 (2.73%) Senior Data Scientist
6 16 (1.90%) Software Engineer
7 15 (1.78%) Developer
8 13 (1.55%) Senior Manager
9 11 (1.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (1.19%) Gen AI Engineer
11 8 (0.95%) Gen AI Software Engineer
11 8 (0.95%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (0.59%) Architect
13 4 (0.48%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 4 (0.48%) Data Science Leader
13 4 (0.48%) Enterprise Architect
13 4 (0.48%) Lead Architect
13 4 (0.48%) Lead Enterprise Architect
13 4 (0.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 4 (0.48%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.21%) PyTorch
2 26 (3.09%) TensorFlow
3 16 (1.90%) Hugging Face
4 14 (1.66%) LangChain
4 14 (1.66%) React
5 10 (1.19%) scikit-learn
6 8 (0.95%) HTML
6 8 (0.95%) Node.js
7 7 (0.83%) RESTful
8 5 (0.59%) .NET
8 5 (0.59%) NumPy
8 5 (0.59%) REST
9 4 (0.48%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.48%) CSS
9 4 (0.48%) CSS3
9 4 (0.48%) Google JAX
9 4 (0.48%) HTML5
9 4 (0.48%) JAX
9 4 (0.48%) Kafka
9 4 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 721 (85.73%) Robotics
2 60 (7.13%) Algorithms
3 23 (2.73%) Cyberattack
4 11 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 7 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 5 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.36%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.24%) Blog
9 2 (0.24%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.24%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.12%) Biopharmaceutical
10 1 (0.12%) Clustering
10 1 (0.12%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.12%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.12%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.24%) Linux
2 1 (0.12%) Android
2 1 (0.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (99.41%) Artificial Intelligence
2 817 (97.15%) Machine Learning
3 782 (92.98%) Generative AI
4 777 (92.39%) Problem-Solving
5 720 (85.61%) Red Team
6 542 (64.45%) Data Privacy
7 66 (7.85%) MLOps
8 64 (7.61%) Data Science
9 48 (5.71%) Biochemistry
9 48 (5.71%) Biology
9 48 (5.71%) Chemistry
9 48 (5.71%) Software Engineering
10 46 (5.47%) Computer Science
11 42 (4.99%) Visualisation
12 41 (4.88%) DevOps
13 35 (4.16%) Agile
13 35 (4.16%) Roadmaps
14 32 (3.80%) Incident Management
15 29 (3.45%) Data Analysis
15 29 (3.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (8.44%) Python
2 40 (4.76%) Java
3 33 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 13 (1.55%) TypeScript
5 9 (1.07%) Go
6 6 (0.71%) SQL
7 5 (0.59%) C#
7 5 (0.59%) C++
8 4 (0.48%) Clojure
8 4 (0.48%) Elixir
8 4 (0.48%) R
8 4 (0.48%) Rust
8 4 (0.48%) Scala
8 4 (0.48%) VBA
9 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.24%) C
10 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 774 (92.03%) Degree
2 40 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (3.09%) Security Cleared
4 24 (2.85%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.95%) PhD
7 2 (0.24%) MCAD
7 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.12%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.55%) Accessibility
2 6 (0.71%) GDPR
3 5 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (3.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 43 (5.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.55%) Grafana
2 13 (1.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 742 (88.23%) Google
2 722 (85.85%) Databricks
3 720 (85.61%) Adobe
4 31 (3.69%) OpenAI
5 20 (2.38%) Microsoft
6 5 (0.59%) UiPath
7 4 (0.48%) Blue Prism