LLM Contracts in England

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LLM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LLM over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 653 -
Rank change year-on-year +187 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 70 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.002% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.002% -
Number of daily rates quoted 44 1 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £436 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% - -
75th Percentile £680 £688 -
90th Percentile £838 - -
UK median daily rate £593 £675 -
% change year-on-year -12.22% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

LLM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in England

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in England.

Daily rate trend for LLM in England

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in England

LLM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +160 54 £575 -14.81% 109
North of England - 4 - - 5
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South East - 2 £650 - 23
South West - 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 2
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 14 (20.00%) Azure
3 9 (12.86%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (12.86%) GCP
4 6 (8.57%) Vertex AI
5 5 (7.14%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.71%) Serverless
7 3 (4.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.29%) ChatGPT
7 3 (4.29%) Lucidchart
7 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.86%) SaaS
8 2 (2.86%) Slack
8 2 (2.86%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.71%) Bigtable
3 4 (5.71%) Cloud Spanner
3 4 (5.71%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
5 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.86%) MySQL
5 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.86%) Tableau
6 1 (1.43%) Big Data
6 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.43%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.43%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.43%) MLflow
General
1 13 (18.57%) Finance
2 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Financial Institution
4 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.29%) Electronics
5 3 (4.29%) Health Technology
5 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.29%) Marketing
5 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Retail
6 2 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.43%) Hungarian Language
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Developer
2 12 (17.14%) Architect
2 12 (17.14%) Senior
3 10 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 10 (14.29%) Data Scientist
4 8 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Lead
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Architect
7 5 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) AWS Architect
7 5 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Software Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Software Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.14%) PyTorch
1 12 (17.14%) TensorFlow
2 11 (15.71%) RESTful
3 9 (12.86%) .NET
4 8 (11.43%) CSS
4 8 (11.43%) FastAPI
4 8 (11.43%) React
5 6 (8.57%) LangChain
5 6 (8.57%) scikit-learn
6 5 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 5 (7.14%) Hugging Face
6 5 (7.14%) WebSockets
7 4 (5.71%) Kafka
8 3 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.29%) REST
9 2 (2.86%) HTML
10 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.43%) Django
10 1 (1.43%) jQuery
10 1 (1.43%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.71%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.29%) Life Science
5 2 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Android
2 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (72.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 47 (67.14%) Machine Learning
3 18 (25.71%) Analytics
4 17 (24.29%) Data Science
5 16 (22.86%) Natural Language Processing
6 15 (21.43%) Generative AI
7 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
9 11 (15.71%) API Development
10 10 (14.29%) Use Case
11 9 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.43%) Data Engineering
12 8 (11.43%) Open Source
13 7 (10.00%) Agile
13 7 (10.00%) Unit Testing
13 7 (10.00%) Visualisation
14 6 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (8.57%) Data Governance
14 6 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
14 6 (8.57%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (71.43%) Python
2 18 (25.71%) Java
3 17 (24.29%) SQL
4 12 (17.14%) C#
5 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.57%) Clojure
6 6 (8.57%) Haskell
6 6 (8.57%) Rust
7 5 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.29%) Go
9 3 (4.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.43%) Bash
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) R
10 1 (1.43%) Ruby
10 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Degree
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.57%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.29%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.86%) PhD
7 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (18.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.43%) Ansible
2 1 (1.43%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.43%) OPNET
2 1 (1.43%) PowerCLI
2 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 8 (11.43%) Google
3 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.29%) Databricks
4 3 (4.29%) Genesys
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.43%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) VMware