LLM Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Large Language Model (LLM)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £273 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - -
75th Percentile £290 - -
90th Percentile £293 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £700
% change year-on-year +2.33% -23.21% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 338 158 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.71% 85.41% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 108 128
10th Percentile £216 £170 £204
25th Percentile £312 £271 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £550
90th Percentile £629 £675 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 5
10th Percentile £13.13 - £24.45
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.06% -32.79% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.19 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £35.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £57.35
% change year-on-year +150.17% -61.67% +14.70%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

LLM job vacancy trend in West Sussex

LLM
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Burgess Hill - 3 £283 - 2
Horsham - 1 - -
LLM
South East

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (25.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (25.00%) Faiss
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (25.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) pgvector
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Testing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI