LLM Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Large Language Model (LLM)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedford requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 9.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £625 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedford

LLM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15 13 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 68.18% 76.47% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile £113 - £186
25th Percentile £220 £325 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £414 £338
Median % change year-on-year +26.74% +22.74% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £513 £438
90th Percentile - £528 £655
Bedfordshire median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £40.73 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.75% - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £82.25 £58.45 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.72% +6.27% -1.48%

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI