LLM Contracts in the North West

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 134 -
Rank change year-on-year +29 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 18 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.90% 0.072% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.086% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 0
10th Percentile £420 £466 -
25th Percentile £489 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% - -
75th Percentile £656 £497 -
90th Percentile £700 £499 -
England median daily rate £619 £575 £725
% change year-on-year +7.61% -20.69% -
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 £17.47 -
% change year-on-year +329.31% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,789 2,337 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.09% 84.22% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,429 1,891
10th Percentile £306 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £673 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 260 144
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.94 £14.13 £20.17
Median hourly rate £31.76 £27.25 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +16.55% -10.77% +29.71%
75th Percentile £63.20 £46.18 £44.64
90th Percentile £81.96 £66.61 £58.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for LLM in the North West

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the North West over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Cheshire - 10 £525 - 10
Manchester +16 6 £550 +12.82% 76
Lancashire - 1 - - 16
Merseyside - 1 - - 10
LLM
England

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure AI
4 4 (22.22%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Google Gemini
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Figma
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Legal
4 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
5 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) IT Manager
3 4 (22.22%) IT Project Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) Designer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) PyTorch
1 5 (27.78%) TensorFlow
2 2 (11.11%) LangChain
3 1 (5.56%) Gradio
3 1 (5.56%) OLE
3 1 (5.56%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (83.33%) Generative AI
3 14 (77.78%) Agile
3 14 (77.78%) Machine Learning
4 8 (44.44%) Natural Language Processing
5 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 7 (38.89%) Scrum
6 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (33.33%) SDLC
7 5 (27.78%) Data Cleansing
7 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
7 5 (27.78%) Multi-Agent System
7 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (27.78%) Project Management
8 4 (22.22%) Business Analysis
8 4 (22.22%) Kanban
8 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
8 4 (22.22%) Pattern Recognition
8 4 (22.22%) RDF
8 4 (22.22%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (5.56%) Genesys
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) SAP