LangSmith Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

LangSmith
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring LangSmith skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LangSmith 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
UK median daily rate £463 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

LangSmith falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,159 4,361 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.96% 31.86% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 2,907 4,307
10th Percentile £231 £237 £216
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.77%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £600
90th Percentile £664 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 103 223
10th Percentile £13.10 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.68 £20.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +19.05% +5.79%
75th Percentile £58.75 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.75 £70.51
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

LangSmith
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LangSmith within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
North West - 1 £600 -
North of England - 1 £600 -
LangSmith
UK

LangSmith
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks