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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 87 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £520 £466 -
25th Percentile £522 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% - -
75th Percentile £619 £497 -
90th Percentile £645 £499 -
North West median daily rate £507 £488 -
% change year-on-year +3.84% - -
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 902 1,044 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.78% 86.86% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 658 1,161
10th Percentile £304 £336 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £704 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 48 57
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.98 £15.29
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £58.87 £64.06 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £86.00 £67.60
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £34.61 £30.65
% change year-on-year -20.89% +12.91% +40.71%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend 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 16 August 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 - - 1
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
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Generative AI
2 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Data Science
5 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
6 1 (16.67%) Emotional Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) MLOps
6 1 (16.67%) Natural Language Understanding
6 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (16.67%) UX Research
6 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Genesys