LLM Contracts in Central London

Large Language Model (LLM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 130 -
Rank change year-on-year +20 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 19 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 0
10th Percentile £589 £780 -
25th Percentile £700 £788 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - -
75th Percentile £781 £831 -
90th Percentile £816 £835 -
London median daily rate £750 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +30.43% -14.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in Central London

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for LLM in Central London

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Central London

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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
City of London +22 17 £700 -12.50% 26
West End of London - 1 £775 - 4
LLM
London

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (31.58%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Apache Hive
1 5 (26.32%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) KDB
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) MLflow
General
1 13 (68.42%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
3 5 (26.32%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Front Office
5 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Data Scientist
2 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Gen AI Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Data Scientist
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Quantitative Strategist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) PySpark
1 6 (31.58%) TensorFlow
2 4 (21.05%) Hugging Face
2 4 (21.05%) LangChain
3 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) Celery
4 1 (5.26%) Django
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) Plotly
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Credit Risk
2 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
3 3 (15.79%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (68.42%) Data Science
2 13 (68.42%) Generative AI
2 13 (68.42%) Machine Learning
3 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
3 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
4 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
4 5 (26.32%) Credit Risk Management
4 5 (26.32%) Prompt Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
5 4 (21.05%) Prototyping
5 4 (21.05%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Data Extraction
6 3 (15.79%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (15.79%) Personalization
6 3 (15.79%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) Clojure
4 1 (5.26%) Elixir
4 1 (5.26%) Go
4 1 (5.26%) Haskell
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) Rust
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
1 6 (31.58%) Master's Degree
2 5 (26.32%) PhD
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform