vLLM Contract Job Trends in England

vLLM
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring vLLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vLLM 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.018% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - -
75th Percentile £658 - -
90th Percentile £683 - -
UK median daily rate £638 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

vLLM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,201 5,869 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.94% 22.37% 20.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 3,720 5,665
10th Percentile £358 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £658 £663
90th Percentile £737 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £513 £536 £535
% change year-on-year -4.38% +0.19% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 76 184
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.38 £26.06
25th Percentile £48.13 £45.51 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.38 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.03 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%

vLLM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vLLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

vLLM job vacancy trend in England

vLLM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vLLM in England over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vLLM in England

vLLM
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 vLLM within the England region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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 - 2 £669 - 1
North of England - 2 £500 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 1
vLLM
UK

vLLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 2 (33.33%) Azure App Service
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Weaviate
2 1 (16.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) LangChain
2 3 (50.00%) Ollama
3 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
4 1 (16.67%) Faiss
4 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (16.67%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) CUDA
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
1 6 (100.00%) LLM
2 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Control
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Semantic Search
5 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) OCR
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Foundry
2 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA