Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Semantic Search
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.051% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Semantic Search 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,633 1,131 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.53% 92.48% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 688 841
10th Percentile £325 £343 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 45 100
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £16.90
25th Percentile £76.69 £18.87 £41.19
Median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +125.32% -39.21% +3.29%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £75.24
90th Percentile £106.20 £87.40 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £57.25 £23.25 £54.62
% change year-on-year +146.24% -57.43% +9.24%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Semantic Search
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Search within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 July 2026. 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
Reading - 1 £775 - 1
Semantic Search
South East

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Full Text Search
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python