LLM Contracts in the Thames Valley

Large Language Model (LLM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £569 £650 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for LLM in the Thames Valley

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire - 15 £588 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £550 - 95
LLM
South East

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Big Data
1 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Python Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Automation Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Data Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
1 6 (37.50%) CSS
1 6 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (18.75%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) FHIR
3 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
3 1 (6.25%) NumPy
3 1 (6.25%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (62.50%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Integration Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 6 (37.50%) System Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
5 4 (25.00%) Channel Management
5 4 (25.00%) Generative AI
6 3 (18.75%) Data Science
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (50.00%) C#
4 7 (43.75%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.25%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) OpenAI
2 4 (25.00%) Foundry
2 4 (25.00%) Palantir
3 1 (6.25%) Alteryx
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft