LLM Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Large Language Model (LLM)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.18% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -6.38% +9.30% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 76 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 83.53% 84.44% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 46 116
10th Percentile £200 £248 £143
25th Percentile £313 £406 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £625 £638 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 21
10th Percentile £15.62 £44.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £47.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £24.68 £62.50 £26.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £65.50 £35.00
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

LLM job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Oxford - 1 £575 - 5
LLM
South East

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript