LLM Contracts in Berkshire

Large Language Model (LLM)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring LLM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LLM over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 115 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 13 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.15% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £675 -
% change year-on-year -18.52% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,046 1,698 1,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.90% 89.04% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 875 995
10th Percentile £313 £234 £349
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -0.05% -0.25% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 102 48
10th Percentile £21.81 £17.60 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.25 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.80 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +5.16% +175.32%
75th Percentile £77.19 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.32 £87.41 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in Berkshire

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for LLM in Berkshire

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Berkshire

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Reading +40 7 £569 -18.75% 46
Maidenhead - 4 - - 1
Wokingham - 2 £500 -
LLM
South East

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) WhatsApp
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) PySpark
3 2 (15.38%) FHIR
4 1 (7.69%) Express.js
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
4 1 (7.69%) LangChain
4 1 (7.69%) NumPy
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) System Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Channel Management
6 2 (15.38%) Conversational UI
6 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Science
6 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 1 (7.69%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) HL7
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
1 1 (7.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) OpenAI
2 4 (30.77%) Foundry
2 4 (30.77%) Palantir
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft