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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 385 -
Rank change year-on-year +101 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 59 12 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.058% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.069% -
Number of daily rates quoted 43 2 0
10th Percentile £353 £486 -
25th Percentile £434 £522 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% - -
75th Percentile £675 £647 -
90th Percentile £710 £679 -
UK median daily rate £619 £575 £1,100
% change year-on-year +7.61% -47.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the UK excluding London

LLM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LLM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend 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 31 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
North of England +31 19 £520 +9.47% 80
North West +24 15 £550 +15.79% 53
East of England - 14 £650 - 45
South East +56 13 £600 -14.29% 40
South West +45 4 £578 - 16
Scotland - 4 £525 - 37
Yorkshire +13 3 £354 - 14
Midlands - 3 £400 - 13
West Midlands - 3 £400 - 9
Wales - 2 £575 - 10
North East +1 1 - - 13
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 18 (30.51%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Confluence
3 2 (3.39%) Apache
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.85%) AWS
2 29 (49.15%) Azure
3 9 (15.25%) GCP
4 6 (10.17%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (8.47%) Azure AI
6 4 (6.78%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (6.78%) Google Gemini
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.69%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) NAS
1 1 (1.69%) SMS
1 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.42%) Big Data
2 14 (23.73%) Hadoop
2 14 (23.73%) Tableau
3 4 (6.78%) Neo4j
4 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.08%) MySQL
5 2 (3.39%) Redis
5 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.69%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.69%) MLflow
General
1 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (8.47%) Legal
5 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 26 (44.07%) Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Senior
3 12 (20.34%) Data Science Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Data Scientist
8 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) IT Manager
8 4 (6.78%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (6.78%) Project Manager
9 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Gen AI Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
10 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Lead
10 2 (3.39%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (37.29%) PyTorch
2 20 (33.90%) TensorFlow
3 16 (27.12%) Pandas
3 16 (27.12%) scikit-learn
4 15 (25.42%) NumPy
5 14 (23.73%) Matplotlib
5 14 (23.73%) Seaborn
6 4 (6.78%) CSS
6 4 (6.78%) HTML
6 4 (6.78%) LangChain
6 4 (6.78%) PySpark
7 3 (5.08%) .NET
7 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.08%) Hugging Face
7 3 (5.08%) React
8 2 (3.39%) FHIR
8 2 (3.39%) Regular Expression
8 2 (3.39%) Spring Security
9 1 (1.69%) Kafka
9 1 (1.69%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.68%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.69%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.69%) IVR
3 1 (1.69%) NHS
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (89.83%) Artificial Intelligence
2 48 (81.36%) Machine Learning
3 38 (64.41%) Generative AI
4 25 (42.37%) Data Science
5 17 (28.81%) Data Analysis
5 17 (28.81%) Decision-Making
5 17 (28.81%) Visualisation
6 16 (27.12%) Analytics
7 15 (25.42%) Agile
8 14 (23.73%) Computer Science
8 14 (23.73%) Data Munging
8 14 (23.73%) Predictive Analytics
8 14 (23.73%) Reinforcement Learning
9 13 (22.03%) Data Analytics
9 13 (22.03%) Feature Engineering
9 13 (22.03%) Statistical Modelling
9 13 (22.03%) Time Series Forecasting
10 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
10 12 (20.34%) Natural Language Processing
10 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (71.19%) Python
2 15 (25.42%) R
3 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.86%) TypeScript
5 5 (8.47%) SQL
6 3 (5.08%) Java
6 3 (5.08%) Scala
7 2 (3.39%) PHP
7 2 (3.39%) Ruby
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Degree
2 10 (16.95%) Master's Degree
2 10 (16.95%) PhD
2 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) HL7
3 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
3 1 (1.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Foundry
2 4 (6.78%) Databricks
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Palantir
3 3 (5.08%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.39%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) NVIDIA
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) Ariba
5 1 (1.69%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (1.69%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.69%) Citrix
5 1 (1.69%) Genesys
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) UiPath