Information Retrieval
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Information Retrieval skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Retrieval over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 967 1024
Rank change year-on-year +108 +57 -165
Permanent jobs citing Information Retrieval 30 11 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.010% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.011% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £42,625 £63,000 £69,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £65,625 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £51,250 - £82,500
90th Percentile - - £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -40.63% +3.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Retrieval is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Retrieval in the UK

Information Retrieval
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Retrieval.

Salary trend for Information Retrieval in the UK

Information Retrieval
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Retrieval within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +134 30 £47,500 -40.63% 5
London +149 22 - - 4
UK excluding London +5 8 £47,500 -40.63% 1
East of England - 7 £47,500 -
South East - 1 £42,000 -

Information Retrieval
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 7 (23.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.33%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) Data Mining
2 17 (56.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 17 (56.67%) Tableau
3 10 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (23.33%) Big Data
4 7 (23.33%) Power BI
5 4 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
General
1 17 (56.67%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Senior
2 7 (23.33%) Associate Consultant
2 7 (23.33%) Consultant
2 7 (23.33%) ERP Consultant
2 7 (23.33%) IT Consultant
3 1 (3.33%) Development Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Sales Representative
3 1 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Technical Sales Representative
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) REST
1 7 (23.33%) SOAP
2 5 (16.67%) ATL
2 5 (16.67%) Shiny
3 4 (13.33%) Apache Beam
3 4 (13.33%) Kafka
3 4 (13.33%) PyTorch
3 4 (13.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 8 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 4 (13.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (93.33%) Analytics
2 24 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (73.33%) Machine Learning
4 21 (70.00%) Data Science
5 17 (56.67%) Data Visualisation
5 17 (56.67%) Experimental Design
5 17 (56.67%) Statistical Analysis
5 17 (56.67%) Visualisation
6 14 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (40.00%) Computer Science
7 12 (40.00%) Decision-Making
7 12 (40.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (36.67%) Project Management
9 10 (33.33%) Roadmaps
10 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (26.67%) Budgeting
12 7 (23.33%) Cost Reduction
12 7 (23.33%) Lean Thinking
12 7 (23.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) SQL
2 21 (70.00%) Python
3 12 (40.00%) R
4 7 (23.33%) MATLAB
5 5 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) YouTube
3 4 (13.33%) OpenAI