vLLM Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

vLLM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vLLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vLLM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.058% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
UK median daily rate £638 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

vLLM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,457 2,514 3,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.01% 18.49% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,308 1,563 2,323
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £407 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £683 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £536 £535
% change year-on-year -4.38% +0.19% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 57 156
10th Percentile £41.25 £26.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £59.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%

vLLM
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 vLLM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 February 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 of England - 2 £500 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 1
vLLM
UK

vLLM
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform