LLM Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Large Language Model (LLM)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.59% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £620 £410 £525
% change year-on-year +51.22% -21.90% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 127 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 89.66% 78.40% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 64 133
10th Percentile £211 £196 £330
25th Percentile £413 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 4
10th Percentile £33.80 £45.38 £51.63
25th Percentile £57.38 £53.53 £52.19
Median hourly rate £82.25 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.72% +6.27% -1.48%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £58.88
90th Percentile - £67.75 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -21.82% +30.95% -6.67%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

LLM job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing LLM

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Bedfordshire

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 November 2025. 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
Bedford - 2 £625 - 1
Dunstable - 2 £525 - 1
LLM
East of England

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 4 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (66.67%) REST
1 4 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 4 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) API Development
2 4 (66.67%) B2B
2 4 (66.67%) B2C
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Feature Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) MLOps
2 4 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
3 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Foundry
1 4 (66.67%) Google
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) OpenAI