LLM Contracts

Large Language Model (LLM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 480 679 -
Rank change year-on-year +199 - -
Contract jobs citing LLM 95 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 60 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £750 -
25th Percentile £477 £881 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £1,100 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.73% - -
75th Percentile £626 - -
90th Percentile £838 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

LLM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LLM in the UK

LLM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LLM in the UK

LLM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for LLM in the UK

LLM
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLM within the UK 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
England +162 79 £575 -47.73% 122
London +150 59 £575 -47.73% 97
Work from Home +147 37 £600 -45.45% 43
UK excluding London - 12 £588 - 26
North of England - 6 £475 - 6
Yorkshire - 4 - -
South West - 4 - - 2
South East - 2 £700 - 15
North East - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 5

LLM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.21%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.11%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (46.32%) AWS
2 20 (21.05%) Azure
3 14 (14.74%) GCP
4 9 (9.47%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (7.37%) Vertex AI
6 5 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 5 (5.26%) Serverless
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (4.21%) ChatGPT
7 4 (4.21%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.21%) PaaS
8 3 (3.16%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.11%) SaaS
9 2 (2.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.21%) Big Data
3 4 (4.21%) Bigtable
3 4 (4.21%) Cloud Spanner
3 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.16%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.11%) MySQL
5 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Power BI
5 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.11%) Tableau
6 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.05%) Flink
6 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.05%) Metadata
6 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.05%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Git
2 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
2 4 (4.21%) JIRA
3 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.58%) Finance
3 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.16%) Banking
4 3 (3.16%) Electronics
4 3 (3.16%) Health Technology
4 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.16%) Marketing
4 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.05%) Hungarian Language
6 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.05%) Law
6 1 (1.05%) Legal
6 1 (1.05%) Publishing
6 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) Developer
2 21 (22.11%) Architect
3 12 (12.63%) Software Developer
4 11 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Data Scientist
5 10 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior
6 9 (9.47%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Lead
7 8 (8.42%) Software Architect
8 7 (7.37%) .NET Architect
8 7 (7.37%) .NET Software Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) AWS Architect
8 7 (7.37%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) Lead Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.05%) PyTorch
1 20 (21.05%) RESTful
2 19 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 18 (18.95%) FastAPI
4 14 (14.74%) .NET
5 11 (11.58%) WebSockets
6 10 (10.53%) React
7 9 (9.47%) CSS
7 9 (9.47%) scikit-learn
8 7 (7.37%) .NET Core
8 7 (7.37%) Kafka
8 7 (7.37%) LangChain
9 6 (6.32%) Hugging Face
10 5 (5.26%) Google JAX
11 4 (4.21%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.21%) ModSecurity
11 4 (4.21%) REST
12 3 (3.16%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.16%) PySpark
13 2 (2.11%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.32%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 4 (4.21%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.21%) PKI
4 4 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.05%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.05%) Blog
7 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.05%) Life Science
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.21%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (71.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 61 (64.21%) Machine Learning
3 25 (26.32%) Analytics
4 21 (22.11%) API Development
4 21 (22.11%) Data Science
5 20 (21.05%) Generative AI
6 19 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 18 (18.95%) Natural Language Processing
8 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (13.68%) CI/CD
11 12 (12.63%) Unit Testing
11 12 (12.63%) Use Case
12 11 (11.58%) Data Encryption
12 11 (11.58%) End-to-End Testing
12 11 (11.58%) Integration Testing
13 10 (10.53%) Data Engineering
14 9 (9.47%) Agile
15 8 (8.42%) Data Governance
15 8 (8.42%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 70 (73.68%) Python
2 28 (29.47%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) Java
4 13 (13.68%) C#
5 11 (11.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
6 7 (7.37%) T-SQL
6 7 (7.37%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.21%) Clojure
7 4 (4.21%) Haskell
7 4 (4.21%) Rust
8 3 (3.16%) C++
8 3 (3.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.16%) R
8 3 (3.16%) Scala
9 2 (2.11%) C
9 2 (2.11%) Julia
10 1 (1.05%) Bash
10 1 (1.05%) Go
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (22.11%) Degree
1 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
1 21 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.58%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.21%) PhD
4 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.16%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.05%) GDPR
1 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (13.68%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.26%) Terraform
3 4 (4.21%) Ansible
3 4 (4.21%) OPNET
3 4 (4.21%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.05%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (23.16%) OpenAI
2 11 (11.58%) Google
3 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.21%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.21%) Cisco
4 4 (4.21%) VMware
5 3 (3.16%) Genesys
5 3 (3.16%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) Databricks
7 1 (1.05%) Dataiku
7 1 (1.05%) DataRobot