LLM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £675 -
% change year-on-year -14.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England - 4 - - 6
Yorkshire - 3 - -
South East - 2 £650 - 22
South West - 2 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 2
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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (37.50%) Vertex AI
3 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (37.50%) Bigtable
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Spanner
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Neo4j
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) GCP Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Office Automation Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (25.00%) ModSecurity
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (25.00%) GitOps
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) NsoIT
4 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) OPNET
1 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle