LLM Contracts in England

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LLM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LLM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 634 -
Rank change year-on-year +162 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 79 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.006% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 50 3 0
10th Percentile £399 £750 -
25th Percentile £463 £881 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £1,100 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.73% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £839 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £1,100 -
% change year-on-year -47.73% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

LLM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in England

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in England.

Daily rate trend for LLM in England

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in England

LLM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London +150 59 £575 -47.73% 99
North of England - 6 £475 - 5
South West - 4 - - 2
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South East - 2 £700 - 15
North East - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 4
LLM
UK

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.51%) AWS
2 19 (24.05%) Azure
3 13 (16.46%) GCP
4 7 (8.86%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (8.86%) Vertex AI
5 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.33%) Serverless
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Machine Learning
6 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
6 4 (5.06%) PaaS
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.80%) ChatGPT
7 3 (3.80%) Lucidchart
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.53%) SaaS
8 2 (2.53%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.19%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.06%) Bigtable
3 4 (5.06%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (3.80%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.53%) MySQL
5 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.53%) Tableau
6 1 (1.27%) Big Data
6 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.27%) Flink
6 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.27%) Metadata
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 3 (3.80%) Git
3 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.27%) MLflow
General
1 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Finance
3 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Banking
4 3 (3.80%) Health Technology
4 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.53%) Electronics
5 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.53%) Marketing
5 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.27%) Hungarian Language
6 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Legal
6 1 (1.27%) Publishing
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Architect
2 15 (18.99%) Developer
3 9 (11.39%) Data Scientist
3 9 (11.39%) Senior
3 9 (11.39%) Software Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Lead
4 8 (10.13%) Software Architect
5 7 (8.86%) .NET Architect
5 7 (8.86%) .NET Software Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) AWS Architect
5 7 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) AWS Software Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Lead Architect
5 7 (8.86%) Software Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Lead Software Architect
6 6 (7.59%) Lead Software Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Principal Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) .NET
1 14 (17.72%) PyTorch
1 14 (17.72%) TensorFlow
2 11 (13.92%) FastAPI
3 10 (12.66%) React
3 10 (12.66%) RESTful
4 9 (11.39%) CSS
5 7 (8.86%) .NET Core
5 7 (8.86%) scikit-learn
6 6 (7.59%) LangChain
7 5 (6.33%) Hugging Face
7 5 (6.33%) WebSockets
8 4 (5.06%) .NET Framework
8 4 (5.06%) Kafka
8 4 (5.06%) ModSecurity
9 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.80%) Google JAX
10 2 (2.53%) REST
10 2 (2.53%) Vue
11 1 (1.27%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.59%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.33%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.06%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.06%) PKI
4 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.27%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.27%) Blog
7 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.27%) Life Science
7 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.06%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (77.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 55 (69.62%) Machine Learning
3 19 (24.05%) Analytics
3 19 (24.05%) Data Science
3 19 (24.05%) Software Engineering
4 18 (22.78%) Generative AI
4 18 (22.78%) Natural Language Processing
5 14 (17.72%) Computer Science
6 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
7 11 (13.92%) API Development
7 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.92%) Use Case
8 9 (11.39%) Agile
9 8 (10.13%) Data Governance
9 8 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (10.13%) Deep Learning
10 6 (7.59%) Data Engineering
10 6 (7.59%) Open Source
10 6 (7.59%) Unit Testing
11 5 (6.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (68.35%) Python
2 18 (22.78%) SQL
3 16 (20.25%) Java
4 13 (16.46%) C#
5 11 (13.92%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.86%) T-SQL
6 7 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.06%) Clojure
8 4 (5.06%) Haskell
8 4 (5.06%) Rust
9 3 (3.80%) C++
10 2 (2.53%) C
10 2 (2.53%) Julia
10 2 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.53%) R
11 1 (1.27%) Bash
11 1 (1.27%) Go
11 1 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Degree
2 14 (17.72%) SC Cleared
2 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.92%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.06%) PhD
5 3 (3.80%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.27%) GDPR
1 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.27%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (15.19%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.06%) Ansible
2 4 (5.06%) OPNET
2 4 (5.06%) PowerCLI
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (16.46%) OpenAI
2 11 (13.92%) Google
3 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.06%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.06%) Cisco
4 4 (5.06%) VMware
5 3 (3.80%) Genesys
6 2 (2.53%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.27%) DataRobot