LLM Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Large Language Model (LLM)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 20 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 772 430 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.12% 92.08% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 281 415
10th Percentile £331 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £669
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 24
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.27 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £33.11 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -56.21% +169.19% -45.33%
75th Percentile £24.29 £100.28 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £14.82
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.50 £22.14 £12.53
% change year-on-year -7.41% +76.70% -37.35%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Leeds

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Leeds

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) Azure AI
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (10.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (10.00%) LangSmith
3 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Social Science
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 4 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Product Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Product Developer
4 1 (5.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (10.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (10.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (10.00%) React
1 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Next.js
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) AI
2 14 (70.00%) Machine Learning
3 9 (45.00%) Observability
4 6 (30.00%) Generative AI
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Data Science
5 5 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (20.00%) Business Case
6 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) MLOps
6 4 (20.00%) Multi-Agent System
6 4 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
7 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (15.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Foundry
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace