LLM Contract Job Trends in Reading

Large Language Model (LLM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.83% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £700 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +64.71% -

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 550 944 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.51% 86.53% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 507 657
10th Percentile £344 £350 £276
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 17
10th Percentile - £14.50 £35.90
25th Percentile £14.75 £44.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £60.83 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% -7.83% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.45 £74.00
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +2.49% +20.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Reading

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing LLM

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for LLM in Reading

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 2 (18.18%) WhatsApp
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 6 (54.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Security Architect
4 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) scikit-learn
2 4 (36.36%) Google JAX
2 4 (36.36%) JAX
2 4 (36.36%) PyTorch
2 4 (36.36%) TensorFlow
3 2 (18.18%) FHIR
3 2 (18.18%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Express.js
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
4 1 (9.09%) LangChain
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (45.45%) Data Science
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) MLOps
4 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
4 4 (36.36%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Deep Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
5 3 (27.27%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Secure Coding
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) C++
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) R
3 3 (27.27%) C
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) GDPR
1 5 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) EU AI Act
3 2 (18.18%) NIST
4 1 (9.09%) HL7
4 1 (9.09%) SLA
4 1 (9.09%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) Google