LLM Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Large Language Model (LLM)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £531 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 734 314 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.70% 92.35% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 180 262
10th Percentile £316 £212 £384
25th Percentile £401 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £596 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

LLM job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LLM

LLM
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Sheffield - 11 £531 - 29
LLM
Yorkshire

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Metadata
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 3 (25.00%) NumPy
2 3 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 3 (25.00%) Pandas
2 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (25.00%) Regular Expression
2 3 (25.00%) SpaCy
3 1 (8.33%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (25.00%) Clustering
2 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (25.00%) Online Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (66.67%) Data Science
3 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Use Case
4 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Deep Learning
4 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 6 (50.00%) Image Processing
4 6 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
7 3 (25.00%) Application Security
7 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (25.00%) Conversational UI
7 3 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
7 3 (25.00%) OCR
7 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Google