LLM Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Large Language Model (LLM)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 20 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 9.48% 0.57% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 0.63% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £383 - -
25th Percentile £550 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 - £525
75th Percentile £649 - £538
90th Percentile £770 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £570 £325 £525
% change year-on-year +75.38% -38.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £17.47 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year - +12.56% -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £17.47 £15.52
% change year-on-year - +12.56% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 194 160 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.94% 91.95% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 77 83
10th Percentile £363 £283 £203
25th Percentile £413 £340 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -4.42% -
75th Percentile £625 £560 £555
90th Percentile £676 £638 £608
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £480 £480
% change year-on-year +1.56% +0.10% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 25
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.08 £17.01
25th Percentile £23.16 £19.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +27.28% -50.00%
75th Percentile £55.85 £62.19 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Cambridge

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing LLM

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Cambridge

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 10 (50.00%) GitHub
2 10 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (45.00%) PaaS
4 8 (40.00%) Serverless
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Functions
6 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) AWS
8 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
9 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JMeter
1 2 (10.00%) Postman
1 2 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.00%) QA Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) .NET
2 11 (55.00%) PyTorch
2 11 (55.00%) TensorFlow
3 10 (50.00%) RESTful
3 10 (50.00%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (10.00%) Pandas
4 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (55.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.00%) Life Science
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) AI
2 18 (90.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 17 (85.00%) Machine Learning
3 17 (85.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 16 (80.00%) Agile
5 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (75.00%) Test Automation
6 12 (60.00%) Data Privacy
7 10 (50.00%) API Management
7 10 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (50.00%) Deep Learning
7 10 (50.00%) Scrum
8 9 (45.00%) API Design
8 9 (45.00%) Software Engineering
9 8 (40.00%) Data Science
9 8 (40.00%) Validation
10 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
10 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
10 7 (35.00%) Prototyping
11 6 (30.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) MCP
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (75.00%) EU AI Act
2 14 (70.00%) NIST
3 4 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (50.00%) Foundry