LLM Job Trends in the West Midlands

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 171 187 178
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 -
Permanent jobs citing LLM 7 12 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.29% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.32% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile £67,125 £64,200 -
25th Percentile £68,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,250 £77,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -23.00% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 -
90th Percentile £140,625 - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +7.94% -4.55% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

LLM job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

LLM
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LLM

LLM
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for LLM in the West Midlands

LLM
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +24 6 £79,250 +2.92% 2
Warwickshire - 1 - -
LLM
England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Head of Data Science
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Deep Learning
4 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (28.57%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) B2B
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) UiPath