LLM Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Large Language Model (LLM)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 35 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.22% 1.62% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £408 -
25th Percentile £575 £411 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% - -
75th Percentile £625 £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £700
% change year-on-year +2.33% -23.21% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 708 284 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.19% 91.91% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 161 226
10th Percentile £326 £286 £234
25th Percentile £449 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £560 £550
90th Percentile £638 £643 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 49 16
10th Percentile £14.25 - £19.63
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £22.50
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.91 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -42.15% +83.52%
75th Percentile £18.32 £25.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £30.87 £36.37
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.67 £57.35
% change year-on-year +153.87% -62.22% +14.70%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing LLM

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -39 2 £600 +41.18% 7
LLM
South East

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) vLLM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Canary Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Text Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI