vLLM Contract Job Trends in Manchester

vLLM
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring vLLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vLLM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.080% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

vLLM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 335 243 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.80% 23.23% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 171 330
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £575
90th Percentile £604 £625 £669
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 8
10th Percentile - - £63.13
25th Percentile £52.50 - £66.88
Median hourly rate £59.25 - £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £71.50 - £81.38
90th Percentile £79.95 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £64.50 £65.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -1.53% +41.84% +2.62%

vLLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform