LLM Contracts in Reading

Large Language Model (LLM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £588 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in Reading

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Reading

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Automation Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
1 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 6 (66.67%) System Testing
2 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) SDLC
4 4 (44.44%) Channel Management
5 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 1 (11.11%) Conversational AI
6 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
6 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) C#
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft