LLM Contracts in Manchester

Large Language Model (LLM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in Manchester

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Manchester

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Manchester 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
Bolton - 3 - - 5
LLM
North West

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LangChain
1 2 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Service Design
5 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Neural Network
5 1 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks