LLM Contracts in England

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 293 474 652
Rank change year-on-year +181 +178 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 200 68 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.18% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.21% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 42 1
10th Percentile £400 £389 -
25th Percentile £525 £433 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% -
75th Percentile £848 £690 £688
90th Percentile £881 £838 -
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +4.17% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.85 - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile £78.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in England

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for LLM in England

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for LLM in England

LLM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LLM in England.

Hourly rate trend for LLM in England

LLM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing LLM in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for LLM in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +113 128 £750 +30.43% 563
East of England - 20 £650 - 59
South East +61 16 £569 -12.50% 363
North of England +31 16 £464 - 303
North West - 13 £550 - 122
South West +50 5 £550 - 30
Yorkshire +8 3 £354 - 144
Midlands - 2 £413 - 325
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 137
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 28 (14.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.50%) Confluence
3 4 (2.00%) Apache
4 3 (1.50%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.00%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.50%) nginx
6 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (33.50%) Azure
2 51 (25.50%) AWS
3 22 (11.00%) GCP
4 16 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 11 (5.50%) GitHub
7 9 (4.50%) Azure AI
8 8 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.50%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (2.00%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.00%) Google Gemini
11 4 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.00%) OpenShift
12 3 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (1.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) DNS
1 1 (0.50%) NAS
1 1 (0.50%) SSL
1 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.50%) Hadoop
2 21 (10.50%) Big Data
3 18 (9.00%) Tableau
4 7 (3.50%) MySQL
4 7 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.00%) Apache Hive
6 5 (2.50%) Redis
7 4 (2.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.00%) Neo4j
7 4 (2.00%) Power BI
8 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.50%) KDB
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (13.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (7.50%) Git
3 5 (2.50%) JIRA
3 5 (2.50%) MLflow
4 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.50%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (23.50%) Finance
3 45 (22.50%) Banking
4 35 (17.50%) Social Skills
5 30 (15.00%) Investment Banking
6 19 (9.50%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (6.00%) Front Office
8 10 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 9 (4.50%) Legal
9 9 (4.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (3.00%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.50%) Law
12 4 (2.00%) Publishing
12 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.50%) Marketing
14 2 (1.00%) Billing
15 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (38.00%) Developer
2 40 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 33 (16.50%) Python Developer
4 30 (15.00%) Senior
5 29 (14.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 29 (14.50%) Gen AI Developer
6 18 (9.00%) Data Scientist
7 17 (8.50%) Lead
8 15 (7.50%) Data Science Developer
9 13 (6.50%) Python Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Gen AI Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (3.50%) Data Engineer
14 6 (3.00%) Architect
14 6 (3.00%) Consultant
14 6 (3.00%) Project Manager
15 5 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
15 5 (2.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (19.00%) React
2 37 (18.50%) TensorFlow
3 35 (17.50%) FastAPI
4 34 (17.00%) PyTorch
5 31 (15.50%) .NET
6 28 (14.00%) Django
7 21 (10.50%) Pandas
7 21 (10.50%) scikit-learn
8 20 (10.00%) NumPy
9 18 (9.00%) LangChain
10 16 (8.00%) Matplotlib
10 16 (8.00%) Seaborn
11 13 (6.50%) Hugging Face
12 12 (6.00%) CSS
12 12 (6.00%) HTML
13 10 (5.00%) PySpark
14 9 (4.50%) REST
15 6 (3.00%) Kafka
15 6 (3.00%) Node.js
15 6 (3.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 50 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 10 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.00%) Credit Risk
4 6 (3.00%) Educational Technology
5 5 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.50%) Cyberattack
7 3 (1.50%) FMCG
7 3 (1.50%) Life Science
7 3 (1.50%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) NHS
9 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (91.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 143 (71.50%) Machine Learning
3 114 (57.00%) Generative AI
4 69 (34.50%) Data Science
5 66 (33.00%) CI/CD
6 65 (32.50%) Agile
7 53 (26.50%) SDLC
8 51 (25.50%) DevOps
9 37 (18.50%) Analytics
10 35 (17.50%) Use Case
11 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (14.50%) Computer Science
13 28 (14.00%) Natural Language Processing
14 26 (13.00%) Decision-Making
14 26 (13.00%) Visualisation
15 25 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
16 24 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (12.00%) Data Engineering
17 23 (11.50%) Data Analysis
18 22 (11.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 153 (76.50%) Python
2 60 (30.00%) SQL
3 42 (21.00%) TypeScript
4 31 (15.50%) C#
5 30 (15.00%) Java
6 22 (11.00%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.00%) R
8 19 (9.50%) Scala
9 9 (4.50%) Rust
10 8 (4.00%) Clojure
11 7 (3.50%) Elixir
12 3 (1.50%) C++
12 3 (1.50%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.50%) PHP
12 3 (1.50%) Ruby
13 2 (1.00%) Go
13 2 (1.00%) Haskell
14 1 (0.50%) Bash
14 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.50%) Degree
2 23 (11.50%) Master's Degree
3 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.50%) PhD
5 15 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.50%) QA
3 2 (1.00%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 44 (22.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.50%) Ansible
3 12 (6.00%) Terraform
4 2 (1.00%) Grafana
5 1 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.50%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) OpenAI
2 16 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.00%) Databricks
4 8 (4.00%) Google
5 6 (3.00%) Palantir
6 5 (2.50%) Foundry
7 3 (1.50%) Oracle
7 3 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.00%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.00%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (0.50%) Adobe
9 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.50%) Ariba
9 1 (0.50%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.50%) DataRobot
9 1 (0.50%) Workday