LLM Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Large Language Model (LLM)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.17% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £391 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% - -
75th Percentile £490 - -
90th Percentile £522 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £391 -
% change year-on-year +34.27% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 650 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.35% 88.80% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 427 537
10th Percentile £300 £289 £350
25th Percentile £388 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £615
90th Percentile £625 £674 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.40% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 19
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.08 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.99 £21.87 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +41.83% -52.55%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.44 £18.33
90th Percentile £59.00 £41.70 £28.10
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.34
% change year-on-year -12.57% +18.28% +3.15%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Glasgow

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing LLM

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) NoSQL
1 5 (55.56%) Redis
2 4 (44.44%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Artifactory
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 6 (66.67%) OAuth
2 5 (55.56%) Flask
2 5 (55.56%) Hugging Face
2 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 5 (55.56%) LangChain
2 5 (55.56%) LangGraph
2 5 (55.56%) Loki
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
2 5 (55.56%) PyTorch
2 5 (55.56%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (44.44%) TensorFlow
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) boto
4 1 (11.11%) JWT
4 1 (11.11%) OpenCV
4 1 (11.11%) Pandas
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) AI Agents
1 4 (44.44%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (88.89%) Generative AI
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 5 (55.56%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) GitOps
4 5 (55.56%) Microservices
4 5 (55.56%) ModelOps
4 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
4 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) Secure Coding
4 5 (55.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Use Case
4 5 (55.56%) Workflow
5 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Grafana
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
3 4 (44.44%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central