LLM Contracts in the South East

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 196 -
Rank change year-on-year +58 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 13 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.44% 0.037% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.043% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £450 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £597 £675 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £650 £575 £888
% change year-on-year +13.04% -35.21% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,683 4,602 4,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.21% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 2,674 3,447
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 441 218
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.03 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £62.06 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for LLM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the South East over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Thames Valley +49 13 £550 - 27
Berkshire +44 13 £550 - 19
LLM
England

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) WhatsApp
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Senior
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) PySpark
3 2 (15.38%) FHIR
4 1 (7.69%) Express.js
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
4 1 (7.69%) LangChain
4 1 (7.69%) NumPy
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (69.23%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
4 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) System Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
6 2 (15.38%) Channel Management
6 2 (15.38%) Conversational UI
6 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Science
6 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) HL7
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
1 1 (7.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) OpenAI
2 4 (30.77%) Foundry
2 4 (30.77%) Palantir
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft