LangSmith Contract Job Trends in the North of England

LangSmith
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring LangSmith skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LangSmith 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.020% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.053% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £463 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

LangSmith falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,902 1,124 1,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.78% 33.52% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 768 1,180
10th Percentile £220 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £390 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £487
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.51% -7.19%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 18 64
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £28.25 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +69.91% +26.97% -36.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.67 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.65 £98.25 £57.25
England median hourly rate £33.09 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.31% +19.57% -6.12%

LangSmith
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LangSmith within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
North West - 1 £600 -
LangSmith
England

LangSmith
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks