LLM Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Large Language Model (LLM)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring LLM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 8 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 2.81% 2.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £407 £472 -
25th Percentile £417 £476 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% - -
75th Percentile £493 £508 -
90th Percentile £497 £510 -
Cheshire median daily rate £492 £488 -
% change year-on-year +0.77% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 275 157 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.49% 94.01% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 132 41
10th Percentile £310 £356 £495
25th Percentile £358 £384 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £448 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -23.63% +18.38%
75th Percentile £488 £552 £595
90th Percentile £520 £640 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £430 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -9.71% -4.75% +11.11%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in Knutsford

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing LLM

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Pylint
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LangChain
1 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Prompt Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) MLOps
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI