LLM Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Large Language Model (LLM)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring LLM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 22 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £354 -
% change year-on-year +45.48% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 972 514 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 84.89% 91.95% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 329 496
10th Percentile £310 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £585
90th Percentile £663 £600 £662
Yorkshire median daily rate £499 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 35
10th Percentile £14.18 £18.59 £11.91
25th Percentile £14.25 - £12.15
Median hourly rate £20.50 £22.14 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +76.70% -37.35%
75th Percentile £25.14 £34.38 £15.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.97 £41.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.12 £13.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +56.44% +27.00%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

LLM job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in West Yorkshire

LLM
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Leeds - 20 £550 - 31
Bradford - 1 - - 1
LLM
Yorkshire

LLM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Azure AI
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (9.09%) Google Gemini
4 2 (9.09%) LangSmith
4 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Metadata
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Law
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Social Science
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 4 (18.18%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Product Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Product Developer
5 1 (4.55%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Hugging Face
1 2 (9.09%) LangGraph
1 2 (9.09%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 2 (9.09%) React
1 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.55%) Next.js
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) AI Agents
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) AI
2 15 (68.18%) Machine Learning
3 9 (40.91%) Observability
4 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
4 6 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 5 (22.73%) Business Case
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Data Science
6 4 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (18.18%) Microservices
6 4 (18.18%) MLOps
6 4 (18.18%) Multi-Agent System
6 4 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
6 4 (18.18%) User Experience
7 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (13.64%) Prompt Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
7 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Foundry
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace