LLM Contract Job Trends in West London

Large Language Model (LLM)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 3.59% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £591 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - -
75th Percentile £622 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
London median daily rate £600 £700 £800
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 178 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.89% 82.79% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 128 264
10th Percentile £204 £220 £200
25th Percentile £357 £363 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £520
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -21.35% +1.71%
75th Percentile £600 £496 £600
90th Percentile £652 £586 £648
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 21
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.75 £16.75
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.51 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -57.11% -12.00%
75th Percentile £30.56 £30.05 £67.00
90th Percentile £37.88 £32.50 £85.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.73% +12.31% -16.13%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LLM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

LLM job vacancy trend in West London

LLM
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing LLM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing LLM

LLM
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Richmond upon Thames - 7 £603 -
LLM
London

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 8 (72.73%) Apache
1 8 (72.73%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
3 9 (81.82%) GCP
3 9 (81.82%) Power Platform
4 8 (72.73%) Amazon S3
4 8 (72.73%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (72.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (72.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (72.73%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (81.82%) Data Lake
1 9 (81.82%) Mixpanel
1 9 (81.82%) Power BI
2 8 (72.73%) BigQuery
2 8 (72.73%) OLAP
2 8 (72.73%) OLTP
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Principal Data Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Principal Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Principal Software Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Great Expectations
1 8 (72.73%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) AI
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) Analytics
3 9 (81.82%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (81.82%) Data Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Data Governance
3 9 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
4 8 (72.73%) Data Architecture
4 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
4 8 (72.73%) Data Privacy
4 8 (72.73%) DevOps
4 8 (72.73%) Dimensional Modelling
4 8 (72.73%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (72.73%) ETL
4 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (72.73%) MapReduce
4 8 (72.73%) Monte Carlo Method
4 8 (72.73%) Observability
4 8 (72.73%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Data Quality
1 8 (72.73%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Databricks
2 8 (72.73%) Google