LLM Contracts in the East of England

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 95 112
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing LLM 15 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.18% 0.065% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.078% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £497 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £684 - -
90th Percentile £770 - -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £750
% change year-on-year -8.33% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.47 -
England median hourly rate £59.95 £22.99 -
% change year-on-year +160.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,132 1,278 1,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.13% 82.45% 87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 481 916
10th Percentile £200 £193 £227
25th Percentile £375 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £579 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £711
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 429 347
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.54 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.57 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +101.92% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the East of England

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing LLM

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the East of England

LLM
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 10 £600 - 10
Cambridgeshire +6 3 £788 - 9
Bedfordshire - 2 £525 -
LLM
England

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (46.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Tableau
2 7 (46.67%) Big Data
2 7 (46.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Data Science Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Matplotlib
1 9 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 9 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 9 (60.00%) Seaborn
1 9 (60.00%) TensorFlow
2 8 (53.33%) NumPy
2 8 (53.33%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Life Science
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 11 (73.33%) Generative AI
4 10 (66.67%) Data Science
5 9 (60.00%) Data Analysis
5 9 (60.00%) Data Munging
5 9 (60.00%) Visualisation
6 7 (46.67%) Reinforcement Learning
6 7 (46.67%) Statistical Modelling
7 6 (40.00%) Analytics
7 6 (40.00%) Data Analytics
7 6 (40.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (40.00%) Predictive Analytics
7 6 (40.00%) Time Series Forecasting
8 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
8 5 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
9 3 (20.00%) Conversational UI
10 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 2 (13.33%) Natural Language Understanding
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) R
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 5 (33.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker