LLM Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Large Language Model (LLM)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 15 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.79% - 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% - 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £551 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 795 231 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.64% 95.45% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 144 218
10th Percentile £355 £220 £359
25th Percentile £413 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £705
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £14.44 - -
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.22 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -28.04% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £16.19 £13.23
% change year-on-year +11.21% +22.37% +24.46%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

LLM job vacancy trend in Sheffield

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing LLM

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
1 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
2 3 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Metadata
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) TensorFlow
2 3 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
2 3 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (20.00%) LangChain
2 3 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (13.33%) CrewAI
3 2 (13.33%) Hugging Face
3 2 (13.33%) LangGraph
3 2 (13.33%) NumPy
3 2 (13.33%) OpenCV
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
3 2 (13.33%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (33.33%) AI Agents
3 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (13.33%) Clustering
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (13.33%) Online Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (53.33%) Use Case
3 7 (46.67%) Data Protection
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) Data Science
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (26.67%) Deep Learning
6 4 (26.67%) Image Processing
6 4 (26.67%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Software Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Log Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Bicep
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 5 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 4 (26.67%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) Alibaba
4 2 (13.33%) NVIDIA
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk