LLM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £660 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £788 -
% change year-on-year -26.98% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.72 - -
Median hourly rate £17.47 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.47 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
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 LLM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 2024. 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 of England - 7 £488 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South East - 4 £700 - 8
South West - 4 - -
North West - 2 £488 - 3
East of England - 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) GCP
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (25.00%) PaaS
3 4 (25.00%) Vertex AI
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Bigtable
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Spanner
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Automation Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 3 (18.75%) GCP Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Office Automation Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Software Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (25.00%) ModSecurity
2 3 (18.75%) Google JAX
2 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
2 3 (18.75%) scikit-learn
2 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
3 2 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 2 (12.50%) LangChain
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Security Posture
2 4 (25.00%) PKI
2 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (18.75%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (12.50%) Blockchain
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (81.25%) Machine Learning
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
6 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
7 4 (25.00%) Agile
7 4 (25.00%) ArchiMate
7 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
7 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (25.00%) Deep Learning
7 4 (25.00%) Project Management
7 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
7 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) C
3 4 (25.00%) C++
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) R
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) OPNET
2 4 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (25.00%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) VMware