LLM Contracts in the North of England

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 165 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 30 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.25% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 0
10th Percentile £352 £466 -
25th Percentile £419 £471 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% - -
75th Percentile £575 £505 -
90th Percentile £663 £509 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £750
% change year-on-year - -23.33% -
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 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £22.99 -
% change year-on-year +226.30% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,396 3,733 4,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.53% 83.93% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 2,265 3,290
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £501
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% -1.10% +0.10%
75th Percentile £556 £581 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 301 201
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.13 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.48 £13.31 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -18.18% +36.61%
75th Percentile £44.61 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.40 £67.50 £53.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the North of England

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for LLM in the North of England

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the North of England

LLM
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 LLM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 July 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
North West +18 24 £504 +3.12% 10
Yorkshire -2 4 £356 - 3
North East -4 2 £450 - 4
LLM
England

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) Azure AI
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon Bedrock
5 4 (13.33%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) Google Gemini
5 4 (13.33%) Vertex AI
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.33%) Firebase
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) Neo4j
2 4 (13.33%) Pinecone
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Legal
5 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.33%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) IT Manager
3 4 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Data Scientist
6 1 (3.33%) Designer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.33%) IT Technical Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) React Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) LangChain
2 7 (23.33%) Streamlit
3 6 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 6 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 4 (13.33%) CrewAI
4 4 (13.33%) React
5 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (10.00%) Gradio
6 2 (6.67%) .NET
6 2 (6.67%) CSS
6 2 (6.67%) Faiss
6 2 (6.67%) HTML
6 2 (6.67%) LangGraph
6 2 (6.67%) Regular Expression
7 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
7 1 (3.33%) Hugging Face
7 1 (3.33%) Material-UI
7 1 (3.33%) Next.js
7 1 (3.33%) SpaCy
7 1 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 5 (16.67%) AI Agents
4 4 (13.33%) Autonomous Agent
4 4 (13.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (73.33%) Generative AI
3 20 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 16 (53.33%) Agile
5 10 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (26.67%) Multi-Agent System
6 8 (26.67%) Project Management
6 8 (26.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
7 7 (23.33%) Scrum
8 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.00%) Conversational UI
8 6 (20.00%) SDLC
9 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (16.67%) Data Science
9 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 5 (16.67%) Microservices
9 5 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) Scala
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (3.33%) R
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) MCP
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Google
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Ariba
4 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.33%) Genesys
4 1 (3.33%) Netlify
4 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.33%) SAP