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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 628 -
Rank change year-on-year +166 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 88 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.017% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.019% -
Number of daily rates quoted 54 8 0
10th Percentile £400 £510 -
25th Percentile £467 £628 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £788 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% - -
75th Percentile £648 £1,100 -
90th Percentile £846 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £788 -
% change year-on-year -26.98% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.72 - -
Median hourly rate £17.47 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.47 - -

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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 22 June 2024.

Daily 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 22 June 2024. 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 +139 64 £575 -30.30% 75
North of England - 7 £488 - 4
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South East - 4 £700 - 8
South West - 4 - -
North West - 2 £488 - 4
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
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 4 (4.55%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.77%) AWS
2 23 (26.14%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) GCP
4 8 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (7.95%) Vertex AI
6 6 (6.82%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.68%) Serverless
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 4 (4.55%) ChatGPT
8 4 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.55%) PaaS
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.41%) Azure AI
9 3 (3.41%) Lucidchart
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Cognitive Search
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.55%) Bigtable
3 4 (4.55%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.27%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.27%) MySQL
5 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.27%) Power BI
5 2 (2.27%) Tableau
6 1 (1.14%) Big Data
6 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Flink
6 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.14%) Metadata
6 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.14%) MLflow
General
1 13 (14.77%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.55%) Banking
5 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.41%) Health Technology
5 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.27%) Electronics
6 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.27%) Marketing
6 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.14%) Hungarian Language
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
7 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Architect
2 15 (17.05%) Developer
3 12 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 11 (12.50%) Senior
5 10 (11.36%) Software Architect
6 9 (10.23%) .NET Architect
6 9 (10.23%) .NET Software Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) AWS Architect
6 9 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) AWS Software Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Data Scientist
7 8 (9.09%) Lead
7 8 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Lead Architect
8 7 (7.95%) Principal Architect
8 7 (7.95%) Principal Software Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) .NET
2 15 (17.05%) PyTorch
2 15 (17.05%) TensorFlow
3 12 (13.64%) React
4 11 (12.50%) CSS
4 11 (12.50%) FastAPI
5 10 (11.36%) RESTful
6 9 (10.23%) .NET Core
7 8 (9.09%) scikit-learn
8 6 (6.82%) Hugging Face
8 6 (6.82%) LangChain
9 5 (5.68%) Google JAX
9 5 (5.68%) Kafka
9 5 (5.68%) WebSockets
10 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
10 4 (4.55%) ModSecurity
11 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.41%) REST
12 2 (2.27%) Vue
13 1 (1.14%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.95%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.95%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.55%) PKI
3 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.14%) Blog
5 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (79.55%) Artificial Intelligence
2 64 (72.73%) Machine Learning
3 25 (28.41%) Software Engineering
4 24 (27.27%) Data Science
5 22 (25.00%) Analytics
5 22 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 18 (20.45%) Natural Language Processing
7 17 (19.32%) CI/CD
7 17 (19.32%) Computer Science
8 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.77%) Use Case
9 11 (12.50%) API Development
9 11 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (11.36%) Data Governance
10 10 (11.36%) Deep Learning
11 9 (10.23%) Agile
12 7 (7.95%) MLOps
12 7 (7.95%) Open Source
13 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (6.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 63 (71.59%) Python
2 20 (22.73%) Java
2 20 (22.73%) SQL
3 18 (20.45%) C#
4 13 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.23%) T-SQL
5 9 (10.23%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.82%) Clojure
6 6 (6.82%) Haskell
6 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.82%) Rust
7 5 (5.68%) C++
8 4 (4.55%) C
8 4 (4.55%) R
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) Julia
9 2 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.14%) Bash
10 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (26.14%) Degree
2 16 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.68%) PhD
5 3 (3.41%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) GDPR
1 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Ansible
3 4 (4.55%) OPNET
3 4 (4.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) OpenAI
2 12 (13.64%) Google
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.55%) Cisco
4 4 (4.55%) VMware
5 3 (3.41%) Genesys
6 2 (2.27%) Databricks
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.14%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.14%) DataRobot