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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 32 26
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 19 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 9.55% 0.51% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.27% 0.56% 1.63%
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 - £525
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 185 178 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 92.96% 90.36% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 85 101
10th Percentile £350 £277 £213
25th Percentile £406 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £569 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £595
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £480 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £18.45 £16.78
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.32 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +175.00% -58.55%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £61.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.88 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

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 29 October 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Azure AKS
2 10 (52.63%) GitHub
2 10 (52.63%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (47.37%) PaaS
4 7 (36.84%) Azure Functions
4 7 (36.84%) Serverless
5 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) AWS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JMeter
1 2 (10.53%) Postman
1 2 (10.53%) Selenium
General
1 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (5.26%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) QA Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Science Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (73.68%) .NET
2 11 (57.89%) PyTorch
2 11 (57.89%) TensorFlow
3 10 (52.63%) RESTful
3 10 (52.63%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (10.53%) Pandas
4 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (57.89%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.79%) Life Science
4 1 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) AI
2 18 (94.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 16 (84.21%) Machine Learning
3 16 (84.21%) Prompt Engineering
4 15 (78.95%) Agile
4 15 (78.95%) Test Automation
5 14 (73.68%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (57.89%) Data Privacy
7 10 (52.63%) API Management
7 10 (52.63%) Deep Learning
7 10 (52.63%) Scrum
8 9 (47.37%) API Design
8 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (42.11%) Data Science
9 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
9 8 (42.11%) Validation
10 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
10 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
10 7 (36.84%) Prototyping
11 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) MCP
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (78.95%) EU AI Act
2 14 (73.68%) NIST
3 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (52.63%) Foundry