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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 678 747
Rank change year-on-year +464 +69 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 541 85 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 0.12% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.14% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 32 45 1
10th Percentile £42,300 £46,306 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £70,576 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% -21.58% -
75th Percentile £94,063 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £109,000 £96,539 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £73,750 £87,500
% change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -

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 36,325 59,458 57,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.91% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,834 41,124 29,354
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,128 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 15 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 15 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
South East +234 183 £90,000 +38.46% 196
Midlands +205 177 £42,000 -40.00% 18
North of England +160 128 £92,500 +18.91% 50
East Midlands +132 110 £40,000 -38.46% 11
Yorkshire +128 74 £70,000 -10.01% 12
West Midlands +122 67 £90,000 +20.00% 5
North West +36 45 £101,250 - 28
South West +128 30 £55,000 -4.35% 22
East of England +53 12 £57,000 -40.00% 55
Scotland +96 10 £50,445 -28.52% 36
North East - 9 - - 10
Wales - 1 - - 4
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 (4.25%) Jupyter
2 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (3.33%) AWS
2 15 (2.77%) Vertex AI
3 10 (1.85%) Azure
4 6 (1.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (1.11%) GCP
5 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (0.74%) GitHub
6 4 (0.74%) Power Automate
6 4 (0.74%) Serverless
6 4 (0.74%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.55%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.37%) AWS KMS
8 2 (0.37%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.37%) SaaS
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.18%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.18%) tcpdump
1 1 (0.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.44%) Big Data
2 15 (2.77%) Data Mining
3 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.74%) Redis
4 4 (0.74%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.74%) Tableau
5 3 (0.55%) MySQL
5 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.37%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.18%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.18%) Power BI
7 1 (0.18%) Power Query
7 1 (0.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (3.14%) Git
2 4 (0.74%) Cypress.io
2 4 (0.74%) Vite
2 4 (0.74%) webpack
3 2 (0.37%) JIRA
4 1 (0.18%) GDB
4 1 (0.18%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.18%) MLflow
4 1 (0.18%) WinDbg
General
1 447 (82.62%) Retail
2 432 (79.85%) Manufacturing
3 144 (26.62%) Dutch Language
3 144 (26.62%) Finnish Language
3 144 (26.62%) Norwegian Language
4 39 (7.21%) Finance
5 36 (6.65%) Law
6 30 (5.55%) Social Skills
7 28 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.22%) Banking
10 11 (2.03%) Games
11 5 (0.92%) Legal
12 4 (0.74%) Automotive
12 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 432 (79.85%) Trainer
2 53 (9.80%) Senior
3 28 (5.18%) Data Scientist
4 25 (4.62%) Lead
5 23 (4.25%) Senior Data Scientist
6 18 (3.33%) Developer
7 14 (2.59%) Gen AI Engineer
7 14 (2.59%) Software Engineer
8 12 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (1.85%) Gen AI Software Engineer
10 6 (1.11%) Architect
10 6 (1.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 6 (1.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.74%) Gen AI Developer
11 4 (0.74%) Lead Architect
11 4 (0.74%) Lead Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.74%) Software Developer
11 4 (0.74%) UI Engineer
11 4 (0.74%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.59%) React
2 11 (2.03%) PyTorch
2 11 (2.03%) TensorFlow
3 10 (1.85%) Node.js
4 9 (1.66%) HTML
5 8 (1.48%) scikit-learn
6 7 (1.29%) RESTful
7 6 (1.11%) REST
8 5 (0.92%) .NET
8 5 (0.92%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.92%) CSS
8 5 (0.92%) CSS3
8 5 (0.92%) HTML5
8 5 (0.92%) Next.js
8 5 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (0.74%) Enzyme
9 4 (0.74%) Jest
9 4 (0.74%) MassTransit
9 4 (0.74%) Svelte
9 4 (0.74%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 433 (80.04%) Robotics
2 64 (11.83%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.25%) Cyberattack
4 12 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (0.74%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.74%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
8 3 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.18%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.18%) Blog
9 1 (0.18%) Clustering
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.18%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.18%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Android
2 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (98.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 520 (96.12%) Machine Learning
3 487 (90.02%) Problem-Solving
4 484 (89.46%) Generative AI
5 432 (79.85%) Red Team
6 289 (53.42%) Data Privacy
7 57 (10.54%) MLOps
8 52 (9.61%) Data Science
9 49 (9.06%) Software Engineering
10 42 (7.76%) DevOps
10 42 (7.76%) Visualisation
11 36 (6.65%) Agile
12 34 (6.28%) Computer Science
13 29 (5.36%) Microservices
14 27 (4.99%) Data Analysis
15 26 (4.81%) Mathematics
16 25 (4.62%) Decision-Making
16 25 (4.62%) Exploratory Data Analysis
16 25 (4.62%) Mentoring
16 25 (4.62%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.05%) Python
2 38 (7.02%) Java
3 34 (6.28%) JavaScript
4 15 (2.77%) Go
5 14 (2.59%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.11%) Clojure
6 6 (1.11%) Elixir
6 6 (1.11%) Rust
6 6 (1.11%) Scala
6 6 (1.11%) SQL
7 5 (0.92%) C#
8 4 (0.74%) C++
8 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.74%) R
8 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
8 4 (0.74%) VBA
9 2 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.18%) PHP
10 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 472 (87.25%) Degree
2 29 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.29%) PhD
6 6 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 5 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (0.92%) GDPR
3 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.37%) QA
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 29 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 51 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 453 (83.73%) Google
2 433 (80.04%) Databricks
3 432 (79.85%) Adobe
4 21 (3.88%) Microsoft
5 17 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.74%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.74%) UiPath