LLM Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Large Language Model (LLM)
South East > Surrey

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £550 £700 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 319 471 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.10% 85.33% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 345 535
10th Percentile £204 £203 £205
25th Percentile £263 £300 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £644
90th Percentile £600 £670 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £518
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.85% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 22
10th Percentile £21.41 £11.71 £17.17
25th Percentile £28.00 £30.00 £34.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.95
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.47% +8.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £61.22
90th Percentile - £76.86 £66.91
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £51.76
% change year-on-year -61.81% +10.80% +59.26%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in Surrey

LLM
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Staines - 1 £425 - 1
LLM
South East

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes