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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 46 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 -15 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.41% 1.15% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 1.20% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £528 £434 £472
25th Percentile £567 £456 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £492 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.01% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £607 £496 £508
90th Percentile £616 £498 £510
Cheshire median daily rate £582 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +10.86% +7.53% -

All Process & 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 234 250 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 93.98% 96.15% 93.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 236 143
10th Percentile £364 £313 £333
25th Percentile £416 £358 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £402 £460
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -12.61% -18.58%
75th Percentile £611 £490 £565
90th Percentile £662 £537 £620
Cheshire median daily rate £485 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +10.74% -7.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% -8.57% +14.60%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

LLM job vacancy trend 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Knutsford over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Knutsford

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (16.67%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AI
3 3 (50.00%) IBM Watson
3 3 (50.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) LangSmith
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) LangChain
2 4 (66.67%) PyTorch
2 4 (66.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Threat Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Generative AI
3 4 (66.67%) OWASP
3 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) SIEM
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (50.00%) Data Security
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft