LLM Contracts in London

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring LLM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LLM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 225 338 492
Rank change year-on-year +113 +154 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 128 53 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.02% 0.30% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.34% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 35 1
10th Percentile £400 £393 -
25th Percentile £550 £428 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -14.81% -
75th Percentile £875 £706 £688
90th Percentile £881 £845 -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £675
% change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in London

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in London.

Daily rate trend for LLM in London

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in London

LLM
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London +20 19 £725 -9.38% 38
East London - 3 £575 - 3
LLM
England

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.56%) Apache
3 2 (1.56%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.66%) Azure
2 22 (17.19%) AWS
3 10 (7.81%) GCP
3 10 (7.81%) GitHub
4 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.91%) Azure AI
5 5 (3.91%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.34%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.34%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.56%) Slack
8 2 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) DNS
1 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.47%) Hadoop
2 6 (4.69%) Apache Hive
2 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.91%) Big Data
4 3 (2.34%) MySQL
4 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.34%) Power BI
4 3 (2.34%) Redis
5 2 (1.56%) Tableau
6 1 (0.78%) KDB
6 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (20.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.13%) MLflow
3 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) Git
5 1 (0.78%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (35.16%) Banking
2 43 (33.59%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (32.03%) Finance
4 30 (23.44%) Investment Banking
5 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
6 19 (14.84%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (9.38%) Front Office
8 10 (7.81%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.91%) Law
9 5 (3.91%) Legal
10 4 (3.13%) Publishing
11 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.56%) Billing
12 2 (1.56%) Marketing
12 2 (1.56%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (29.69%) Developer
2 29 (22.66%) Python Developer
3 26 (20.31%) Gen AI Developer
4 25 (19.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 20 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (10.94%) Lead
7 12 (9.38%) Gen AI Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Python Engineer
8 11 (8.59%) Senior
9 10 (7.81%) Data Scientist
9 10 (7.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.91%) Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 4 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 4 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
12 4 (3.13%) Consultant
12 4 (3.13%) Gen AI Specialist
13 3 (2.34%) Principal Engineer
14 2 (1.56%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.56%) React
2 33 (25.78%) FastAPI
3 27 (21.09%) Django
4 20 (15.63%) .NET
5 16 (12.50%) LangChain
6 12 (9.38%) TensorFlow
7 9 (7.03%) REST
8 8 (6.25%) Hugging Face
9 7 (5.47%) PySpark
9 7 (5.47%) PyTorch
10 6 (4.69%) Kafka
10 6 (4.69%) Play Framework
11 5 (3.91%) Next.js
11 5 (3.91%) Node.js
12 4 (3.13%) Pandas
12 4 (3.13%) scikit-learn
13 3 (2.34%) NumPy
13 3 (2.34%) Spring
13 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
14 2 (1.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Algorithms
2 10 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.03%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (7.03%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.69%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.91%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.34%) FMCG
6 3 (2.34%) Life Science
6 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.56%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (92.19%) Artificial Intelligence
2 87 (67.97%) Machine Learning
3 73 (57.03%) Generative AI
4 56 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 44 (34.38%) Agile
6 40 (31.25%) DevOps
6 40 (31.25%) SDLC
7 38 (29.69%) Data Science
8 33 (25.78%) Use Case
9 25 (19.53%) Technical Analysis
10 24 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (15.63%) MLOps
12 18 (14.06%) Analytics
13 16 (12.50%) Data Engineering
13 16 (12.50%) Natural Language Processing
13 16 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 11 (8.59%) Deep Learning
16 10 (7.81%) Computer Science
17 9 (7.03%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 93 (72.66%) Python
2 47 (36.72%) SQL
3 37 (28.91%) TypeScript
4 27 (21.09%) Java
5 21 (16.41%) C#
6 16 (12.50%) Scala
7 9 (7.03%) Rust
8 8 (6.25%) Clojure
9 7 (5.47%) Elixir
10 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.34%) R
12 2 (1.56%) C++
12 2 (1.56%) Go
12 2 (1.56%) Haskell
13 1 (0.78%) Bash
13 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) Degree
2 11 (8.59%) Master's Degree
3 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.47%) PhD
4 6 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.34%) QA
2 1 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.78%) GDPR
2 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (29.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 25 (19.53%) Ansible
3 11 (8.59%) Terraform
4 1 (0.78%) Argo
4 1 (0.78%) Istio
4 1 (0.78%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Databricks
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.03%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.13%) Google
4 3 (2.34%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.56%) Palantir
6 1 (0.78%) Adobe
6 1 (0.78%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.78%) DataRobot
6 1 (0.78%) Foundry
6 1 (0.78%) SAP
6 1 (0.78%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (0.78%) Workday