AI Engineer, LLM Engineer: Why Europe and Asia-Pacific Are Competing for the Same Talent

The numbers speak for themselves: AI/ML roles grew 151% in the UK between 2022 and 2025 — and 176% in India over the same period, with Asia-Pacific posting the fastest growth worldwide.

Each market is developing its own priorities: the UK around fintech and cybersecurity, Germany around industrial AI, Singapore around fintech and healthcare, Japan around AI product roles that require fluency in Japanese.

The result: a capable AI Engineer or LLM Engineer becomes a globally contested resource, changing how companies need to build their proposition to attract this talent — salary alone is no longer enough.