The car maker, which is owned by India's Tata Motors, is to make around 200 employees redundant at its plants in Birmingham, Solihull and on Merseyside.
Jaguar Land Rover employees 15,000 people in Britain, and said that it would seek to shed the staff through voluntary redundancies.
The credit crisis has seen new car sales in the UK tumble by more than a fifth compared to this time last year, but Jaguar insisted that its job losses were unrelated to the current economic gloom.
A spokesman for the car maker said that it was part of an "on going drive to improve efficiency", and said similar cuts had been made in previous years.
"It is a small redundancy programme and it affects 198 staff across all our manufacturing sites," he said.
Jaguar Land Rover has announced a range of measures in recent weeks in an effort to limit over-production, including four-day weeks and temporary closures of some plants.
Official figures released this week showed that the total number of unemployed people in the UK has risen to 1.79 million, the highest since March 1998. Some analysts have predicted that 2 million people could be out of work by Christmas, with the jobless total expected to pass 2.5 million next year.
The Office for National Statistic figures also showed that a total of 147,000 people were made redundant in the three months to August.
The Government has made available an extra £100 million for re-training workers, in anticipation that the likely imminent recession will see a jump in job losses.
Glass-maker Waterford Crystal announced that 280 staff at its plant in Waterford in the Republic of Ireland are to be made redundant.
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