Contract LLM Jobs in the UK excluding London

1 to 25 of 37 Contract LLM Jobs in the UK excluding London

AI Test engineer

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
environments ( Docker , Kubernetes ). Strong knowledge of API testing , performance profiling, and security practices including OWASP Top 10 and penetration testing . Familiarity with AI/ML systems , including LLM evaluation techniques, output scoring, and validation frameworks. Understanding of prompt engineering , RAG , model orchestration , and hallucination detection . Awareness of ethical AI , bias detection, explainability, and regulatory compliance. Proven ability More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: Salary negotiable
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Security Architect

Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Queen Square Recruitment Limited
Deep understanding of AI technologies, algorithms, and frameworks . Proficiency in programming languages (Python, R, C/C++, Java) and secure coding practices. Hands-on experience with ML/LLM frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc.). Expertise in DevOps/CI/CD security and cloud-native architectures (containers, Kubernetes, Git). Strong knowledge of AI/ML-specific More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: Up to £510 per day
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AI Technical Consultant

Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lloyd Recruitment Services Ltd
solutions that deliver business value. You'll work with cross-functional teams to define strategy, build innovative solutions, and guide stakeholders on AI adoption. Key Responsibilities Build and refine LLM/SLM-based AI solutions (RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering). Design and oversee AI solution architecture (cloud & on-prem). Develop and deploy ML models into production. Identify AI More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum
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AI Integration Engineer

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
FDM Group
including natural language understanding and multi-turn dialogue flows Track usage and feedback, contributing to continuous improvement, performance tuning, and innovation across automation initiatives Explore and test GenAI and LLM capabilities, enhancing user experience as well as automation Requirements Minimum of 4 years’ experience as an AI Integration Engineer Proven experience with Microsoft Co-pilot Studio and Power Platform such More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £70,000 - £80,000 per annum
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AI Platform Engineer

Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Robert Walters
docker images inspection methods? Any experience of popular known deployment methods on k8s cluster? Gitops/Git/Jenkins Any experience using gitops pipeline? Nice to have Understanding of LLM Evaluation Frameworks MLOps platforms or LLMOps background Understanding of AI Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
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AI Infra Engineer - Serverless LLM

Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Project People
Job Summary We are seeking AI Infra Engineer to design, develop, and optimize distributed AI systems for serverless AI platforms. The successful candidate will leverage expertise in large language models (LLMs), and system design to build robust, scalable solutions. This More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: GBP 50,000 - 90,000 Annual
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AI Infra Engineer - Serverless LLM

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Project People
Job Summary We are seeking AI Infra Engineer to design, develop, and optimize distributed AI systems for serverless AI platforms. The successful candidate will leverage expertise in large language models (LLMs), and system design to build robust, scalable solutions. This More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £50000 - £90000/annum
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AI Engineer

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
functional teams is key to ensuring seamless integration with existing digital services. What You'll Need to Succeed Commercial experience with AI/ML technology: OCR, Object Detection and LLM analysis implementation * Machine Learning & AI Libraries including: o Transformers/Hugging Face for working with pre-trained LLMs, fine-tuning, and inference o PyTorch for deep learning model development and More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
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AI Engineer

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hays Technology
functional teams is key to ensuring seamless integration with existing digital services. What You'll Need to Succeed Commercial experience with AI/ML technology: OCR, Object Detection and LLM analysis implementation * Machine Learning & AI Libraries including: o Transformers/Hugging Face for working with pre-trained LLMs, fine-tuning, and inference o PyTorch for deep learning model development and More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £500 - £550/day
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AI + Backend Developer

Reading, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Grassroots Recruitment Ltd
Tools: Backend: Spring Boot (web, data, cloud, security), JUnit 5, Mockito, database integration. AI: LangChain, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), MCP servers (as consumer and developer), and prompt engineering for LLM optimization. Exposure to popular libraries and frameworks (Apache Commons, Guava, Swagger, TestContainers). Architecture & Platforms: Skilled in designing and deploying distributed systems on cloud hyperscalers (AWS, GCP). Familiarity with More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: GBP Annual
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AI Backend Developer

Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Grassroots Recruitment Limited
Tools:Backend: Spring Boot (web, data, cloud, security), JUnit 5, Mockito, database integration. AI: LangChain, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), MCP servers (as consumer and developer), and prompt engineering for LLM optimization. Exposure to popular libraries and frameworks (Apache Commons, Guava, Swagger, TestContainers). Architecture & Platforms:Skilled in designing and deploying distributed systems on cloud hyperscalers (AWS, GCP). Familiarity with More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £0 per day
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AI + Backend Developer

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Grassroots Recruitment Ltd
Tools: Backend: Spring Boot (web, data, cloud, security), JUnit 5, Mockito, database integration. AI: LangChain, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), MCP servers (as consumer and developer), and prompt engineering for LLM optimization. Exposure to popular libraries and frameworks (Apache Commons, Guava, Swagger, TestContainers). Architecture & Platforms: Skilled in designing and deploying distributed systems on cloud hyperscalers (AWS, GCP). Familiarity with More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
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AI Lead

South West London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Purview Consultancy Services Ltd
ready AI systems for financial automation with hands-on development approach. Required Qualifications 10+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering with 4+ years in agentic AI and LLM systems Strong proficiency in LangGraph, LangMem, and agentic workflow development Hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI GPT-5, text-embedding-3-large, and Azure AI services Expert-level Python programming More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
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AI Technical Consultant

Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom
Faith Recruitment
to deliver. The AI Technical Consultant will: · Evaluate business processes and recommend AI opportunities aligned with organizational goals · Collaborate with wider teams to define AI strategy · Build and refine LLM/SLM-based AI solutions · Prompt the engineering side of the business · Design and oversee solution architecture for AI-powered systems · Develop ML models and integrate them into production systems More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £31000 - £70000/annum
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Software Engineer - AI & Data Platforms

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
SR2
and CI/CD. Familiarity with secure coding practices and compliance standards. Desirable Skills Background in security engineering (for one of the engineer roles). Experience integrating AI/LLM services into production systems. Knowledge of accessibility standards and government service patterns. More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
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C# Developer

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
FDM Group
FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a C# Developer to work for our client within the advisory and consultancy sector. This is initially an 8-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a remote More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £55,000 - £75,000 per annum
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AI Safety Engineer

Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Hirexa Solutions UK
Duration: 6 months+ (long term project) Hybrid Mode: Min. 3 days from client location Skills & Expectations: Strong expertise in AI safety tools (e.g., Responsible AI Toolbox, Deepchecks) Experience with LLM compliance testing frameworks Hands-on knowledge in: Prompt injection testing and AI behaviour anomaly detection Bias, fairness, and explain ability metrics for LLMs Audit trail generation, logging, and compliance reporting More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: Salary negotiable
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ML Ops Engineer

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Salt Search
Job Title: ML Ops/LLM Ops Engineer Location: Hybrid (potentially 1 day per week in east London) Contract: 6 month Contract Day Rate: £400 per day (Outside IR35) About the Role We are seeking an experienced ML Ops/LLM Ops Engineer to join a high-profile digital transformation initiative. This role focuses on operationalising advanced Machine Learning services … infrastructure. Strong Python engineering skills (Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy). Expertise in AWS services (certification desirable). Proven experience deploying and supporting LLMs in production. Strong understanding of LLM fine-tuning (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Trainer, etc.). Experience with ML tooling (e.g. SageMaker, LangChain/LangSmith, MLflow, Dataiku, DataRobot). Knowledge of embeddings, their applications, and limitations. Hands … AI (voice or text). Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, or Postgres. Exposure to Data Science, NLP, Explainable AI (XAI). Real-world delivery of Generative AI solutions, especially LLM-driven applications. *Rates depend on experience and client requirements More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £400 per day
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Senior Software Developers

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location: Cambridge (3 days/week on-site) Contract Rate: Up to £590/day (Inside IR35) Start Date: October 2025 Job Type: Contract Overview: We’re hiring experienced and passionate Senior Software Developers to join a cutting-edge AI More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: Salary negotiable
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Data science/AI/ML engineer

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
About the Role Outside IR35 £200 - £300Initial 6 month contract - high possibility of 18 monthsOur client is hiring a Data Scientist – AI/ML Engineer to join our Core AI Services team. You’ll be at the forefront of designing More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
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Generative AI Lead

London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Advanced Resource Managers Limited
Generative AI Lead 6 months Hybrid - 2-3 days per month on site in London £675 - 720 per day (Inside IR35) Responsibilities- Leading on Generative AI solution design and developmentResearching and implementing cutting edge techniques, methodologies and approachesTaking projects from More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £675 - £720 per day, Negotiable
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AI Engineer

Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom
Lloyd Recruitment - Epsom
opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, applying machine learning, NLP, and generative AI to real-world business problems. Key Responsibilities Build and refine AI/ML models, including LLM-based solutions (RAG, fine-tuning, prompt engineering). Design and implement AI-powered applications, integrating with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and Python-based solutions. Prototype and test AI applications … Face, LangChain) and apply them to business needs. Communicate technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Essential Skills & Experience Hands-on experience in ML, NLP, and GenAI (LLM/SLM). Proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow). Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, APIs, and data integration. Exposure to on-premise/open More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £40000 - £50000/annum
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Python Engineer

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Your New Company and Role This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation delivering cutting-edge automation solutions using AI and machine learning. You'll be part of a collaborative development team focused on enhancing and expanding More ❯
Employment Type: Contractor
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
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Python Engineer

Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hays Technology
Your New Company and Role This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation delivering cutting-edge automation solutions using AI and machine learning. You'll be part of a collaborative development team focused on enhancing and expanding More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
Rate: £500 - £550/day
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Digital Product Owner - AI

Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Travel Counsellors
Reimagine the Role of AI in Human Travel At Travel Counsellors, were not just adopting AI - were building a future where it enhances every human interaction. With 30+ years of history and 2,200+ independent travel entrepreneurs worldwide, weve always More ❯
Employment Type: Contract
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LLM
the UK excluding London
10th Percentile
£406
25th Percentile
£425
Median
£525
75th Percentile
£600
90th Percentile
£770