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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 460 629
Rank change year-on-year +169 +169 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 186 77 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.21% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.25% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 50 2
10th Percentile £400 £399 £706
25th Percentile £500 £463 £772
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £888
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -35.21% -
75th Percentile £844 £666 £997
90th Percentile £881 £838 £1,059
UK median daily rate £606 £575 £888
% change year-on-year +5.43% -35.21% -
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 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

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 24 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 24 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for LLM in England

LLM
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 24 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 +121 122 £750 +30.43% 1,048
North of England +27 19 £520 +9.47% 947
East of England - 16 £650 - 667
North West +24 15 £550 +15.79% 441
South East +55 13 £550 -18.52% 1,236
South West +44 4 £578 - 488
Yorkshire +10 3 £354 - 380
Midlands - 3 £400 - 788
West Midlands - 3 £400 - 415
North East 0 1 - - 126
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 26 (13.98%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.23%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.69%) Confluence
4 4 (2.15%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (8.06%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.61%) Sketch
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (35.48%) Azure
2 55 (29.57%) AWS
3 22 (11.83%) GCP
4 13 (6.99%) GitHub
5 12 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 9 (4.84%) Azure AI
6 9 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (3.23%) Figma
8 5 (2.69%) Google Gemini
9 4 (2.15%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (2.15%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 4 (2.15%) ChatGPT
10 3 (1.61%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.61%) IBM Watson
10 3 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.61%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.61%) Vertex AI
11 2 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) NAS
1 1 (0.54%) SMS
1 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.83%) Big Data
1 22 (11.83%) Hadoop
2 16 (8.60%) Tableau
3 7 (3.76%) MySQL
4 6 (3.23%) Apache Hive
5 5 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.15%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.15%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.15%) Redis
7 2 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.08%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.54%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 23 (12.37%) Jenkins
2 10 (5.38%) Git
3 6 (3.23%) MLflow
4 5 (2.69%) JIRA
5 3 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 59 (31.72%) Analytical Skills
2 44 (23.66%) Finance
3 35 (18.82%) Social Skills
4 33 (17.74%) Banking
5 24 (12.90%) Investment Banking
6 18 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (6.99%) Legal
8 9 (4.84%) Financial Institution
8 9 (4.84%) Front Office
8 9 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (4.84%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.76%) Publishing
10 6 (3.23%) Law
11 5 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.61%) Marketing
12 3 (1.61%) Retail
13 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.54%) Advertising
14 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (33.87%) Developer
2 33 (17.74%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 27 (14.52%) Python Developer
4 26 (13.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 23 (12.37%) Gen AI Developer
6 22 (11.83%) Senior
7 15 (8.06%) Data Scientist
8 14 (7.53%) Data Science Developer
8 14 (7.53%) Lead
9 10 (5.38%) Architect
9 10 (5.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 10 (5.38%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 9 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Python Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Gen AI Engineer
12 7 (3.76%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.23%) Designer
13 6 (3.23%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (21.51%) TensorFlow
2 37 (19.89%) PyTorch
3 33 (17.74%) React
4 31 (16.67%) FastAPI
5 24 (12.90%) .NET
6 23 (12.37%) Django
7 20 (10.75%) scikit-learn
8 18 (9.68%) Pandas
9 17 (9.14%) NumPy
10 16 (8.60%) LangChain
11 15 (8.06%) Matplotlib
11 15 (8.06%) Seaborn
12 12 (6.45%) Hugging Face
13 10 (5.38%) PySpark
14 8 (4.30%) CSS
14 8 (4.30%) HTML
14 8 (4.30%) REST
15 6 (3.23%) Node.js
15 6 (3.23%) Play Framework
16 5 (2.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.12%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 6 (3.23%) Educational Technology
4 6 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.69%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.61%) FMCG
7 3 (1.61%) Life Science
7 3 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.54%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.54%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.54%) IVR
9 1 (0.54%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (93.01%) Artificial Intelligence
2 134 (72.04%) Machine Learning
3 102 (54.84%) Generative AI
4 63 (33.87%) Data Science
5 58 (31.18%) Agile
6 57 (30.65%) CI/CD
7 45 (24.19%) SDLC
8 44 (23.66%) DevOps
9 38 (20.43%) Natural Language Processing
10 34 (18.28%) Analytics
11 30 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (15.05%) Computer Science
12 28 (15.05%) Use Case
13 24 (12.90%) Decision-Making
14 23 (12.37%) MLOps
14 23 (12.37%) Visualisation
15 21 (11.29%) Data Analysis
15 21 (11.29%) Data Engineering
16 20 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.75%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 131 (70.43%) Python
2 47 (25.27%) SQL
3 38 (20.43%) TypeScript
4 22 (11.83%) C#
5 21 (11.29%) Java
5 21 (11.29%) R
6 17 (9.14%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.53%) Scala
8 6 (3.23%) Rust
9 5 (2.69%) Clojure
9 5 (2.69%) Elixir
10 3 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.61%) PHP
10 3 (1.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (19.35%) Degree
2 24 (12.90%) Master's Degree
3 20 (10.75%) Security Cleared
4 19 (10.22%) PhD
5 15 (8.06%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.38%) QA
3 3 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.54%) HL7
4 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 38 (20.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (23.12%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.75%) Ansible
3 12 (6.45%) Terraform
4 2 (1.08%) Grafana
4 2 (1.08%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 21 (11.29%) OpenAI
2 17 (9.14%) Databricks
3 16 (8.60%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.91%) Google
5 6 (3.23%) Genesys
5 6 (3.23%) Palantir
6 5 (2.69%) Foundry
7 4 (2.15%) IBM
8 3 (1.61%) Oracle
9 2 (1.08%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.08%) DataRobot
9 2 (1.08%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.08%) SAP
10 1 (0.54%) Adobe
10 1 (0.54%) Ariba
10 1 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.54%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.54%) Citrix
10 1 (0.54%) UiPath
10 1 (0.54%) Workday