LLM Contracts in the South East

Large Language Model (LLM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring LLM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LLM over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 203 -
Rank change year-on-year +71 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 22 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.070% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.085% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £522 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -
75th Percentile £906 - -
90th Percentile £950 - -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £750
% change year-on-year +4.35% -23.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,891 4,704 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.00% 82.67% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,801 2,730 3,517
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 458 234
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.23 £21.73
Median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £54.06 £66.77 £64.59
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing LLM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the South East

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LLM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for LLM in the South East

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LLM in the South East over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the South East

LLM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Thames Valley +45 22 £663 -5.36% 187
Berkshire +37 22 £663 -5.36% 120
LLM
England

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (31.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 2 (9.09%) WhatsApp
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.55%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.55%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Integration Developer
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Trainer
6 1 (4.55%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) PySpark
1 3 (13.64%) scikit-learn
2 2 (9.09%) FHIR
2 2 (9.09%) Google JAX
2 2 (9.09%) JAX
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 2 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.55%) Express.js
3 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.55%) LangChain
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Robotics
4 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.55%) NHS
4 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (81.82%) Machine Learning
3 10 (45.45%) Data Science
4 9 (40.91%) Analytics
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) DevOps
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 7 (31.82%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (31.82%) Generative AI
5 7 (31.82%) Visualisation
6 6 (27.27%) Computer Vision
6 6 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (27.27%) Predictive Analytics
6 6 (27.27%) Prototyping
7 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
7 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
7 5 (22.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) C++
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) R
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.55%) HL7
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Foundry
1 4 (18.18%) Palantir
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.55%) Google
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