vLLM Contract Job Trends in the South East

vLLM
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring vLLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vLLM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.020% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

vLLM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 801 526 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.38% 16.66% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 332 438
10th Percentile £321 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £532 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +6.45% -7.19%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £625
90th Percentile £675 £669 £678
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 43
10th Percentile £40.00 £52.55 £51.90
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.94 £56.45
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 - £75.77
90th Percentile £81.00 £65.09 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

vLLM
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 vLLM within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 -
Thames Valley - 1 £600 -
vLLM
England

vLLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Canary Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher