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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 334 477
Rank change year-on-year +110 +143 -
Contract jobs citing LLM 123 59 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 0.34% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.38% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 42 3
10th Percentile £400 £400 £750
25th Percentile £518 £463 £881
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £575 £1,100
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -47.73% -
75th Percentile £850 £638 -
90th Percentile £881 £849 -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £1,100
% change year-on-year +13.04% -47.73% -

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 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +23 15 £750 -6.25% 22
East London - 1 - - 5
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 (6.50%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.88%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.32%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.44%) Sketch
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (28.46%) Azure
2 29 (23.58%) AWS
3 11 (8.94%) GitHub
4 9 (7.32%) GCP
5 8 (6.50%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.07%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.07%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (4.07%) Figma
8 4 (3.25%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (3.25%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.44%) IBM Watson
9 3 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.44%) Vertex AI
10 2 (1.63%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.63%) Serverless
10 2 (1.63%) Slack
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) Big Data
1 7 (5.69%) Hadoop
2 6 (4.88%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.44%) MySQL
4 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.63%) Power BI
5 2 (1.63%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau
6 1 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (15.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.25%) MLflow
3 3 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) GitLab
General
1 38 (30.89%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (27.64%) Finance
3 31 (25.20%) Banking
4 25 (20.33%) Social Skills
5 23 (18.70%) Investment Banking
6 17 (13.82%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (6.50%) Financial Institution
7 8 (6.50%) Front Office
7 8 (6.50%) Legal
8 7 (5.69%) Publishing
9 6 (4.88%) Law
10 3 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.44%) Retail
11 2 (1.63%) Marketing
12 1 (0.81%) Advertising
12 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (26.83%) Developer
2 23 (18.70%) Python Developer
3 18 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 18 (14.63%) Gen AI Developer
4 17 (13.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 12 (9.76%) Lead
6 9 (7.32%) Architect
7 8 (6.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 8 (6.50%) Gen AI Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Data Scientist
8 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (4.88%) Senior
9 5 (4.07%) Designer
10 4 (3.25%) Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
10 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
10 4 (3.25%) Consultant
10 4 (3.25%) Gen AI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.95%) React
2 26 (21.14%) FastAPI
3 20 (16.26%) Django
4 16 (13.01%) .NET
4 16 (13.01%) TensorFlow
5 13 (10.57%) LangChain
6 11 (8.94%) PyTorch
7 7 (5.69%) Hugging Face
7 7 (5.69%) PySpark
7 7 (5.69%) REST
8 6 (4.88%) Play Framework
9 5 (4.07%) Next.js
9 5 (4.07%) Node.js
10 4 (3.25%) scikit-learn
11 3 (2.44%) Kafka
11 3 (2.44%) Keras
12 2 (1.63%) Celery
12 2 (1.63%) Flask
12 2 (1.63%) Pandas
12 2 (1.63%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.82%) Algorithms
2 12 (9.76%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.88%) Credit Risk
5 5 (4.07%) AI Agents
5 5 (4.07%) Educational Technology
5 5 (4.07%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.44%) FMCG
6 3 (2.44%) Life Science
6 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.81%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (94.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 85 (69.11%) Machine Learning
3 58 (47.15%) Generative AI
4 46 (37.40%) CI/CD
5 41 (33.33%) Agile
6 39 (31.71%) DevOps
7 34 (27.64%) Data Science
7 34 (27.64%) SDLC
8 25 (20.33%) Natural Language Processing
9 23 (18.70%) Use Case
10 21 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (16.26%) Analytics
12 19 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (15.45%) MLOps
13 18 (14.63%) Technical Analysis
14 15 (12.20%) Deep Learning
14 15 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
15 13 (10.57%) Data Engineering
16 12 (9.76%) Computer Science
17 11 (8.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 77 (62.60%) Python
2 38 (30.89%) SQL
3 31 (25.20%) TypeScript
4 17 (13.82%) C#
4 17 (13.82%) Java
5 11 (8.94%) Scala
6 6 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.88%) Rust
7 5 (4.07%) Clojure
7 5 (4.07%) Elixir
7 5 (4.07%) R
8 3 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) Degree
2 13 (10.57%) Master's Degree
3 8 (6.50%) PhD
4 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.69%) QA
2 2 (1.63%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (22.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.63%) Ansible
3 10 (8.13%) Terraform
4 2 (1.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 14 (11.38%) Databricks
2 13 (10.57%) OpenAI
3 11 (8.94%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.69%) Google
5 5 (4.07%) Genesys
6 3 (2.44%) IBM
7 2 (1.63%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.63%) DataRobot
7 2 (1.63%) Palantir
8 1 (0.81%) Adobe
8 1 (0.81%) Foundry
8 1 (0.81%) SAP
8 1 (0.81%) Workday