Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 14.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £430 - £700

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bolton

Retrieval-Augmented Generation 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 Bolton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 21 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton 96.43% 84.00% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile £178 £155 -
25th Percentile £550 £164 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £185 £492
Median % change year-on-year +228.38% -62.36% +3.47%
75th Percentile £624 £236 £500
90th Percentile £650 £274 -
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £495
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £32.33 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £33.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £48.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -1.02% -24.62%
75th Percentile £64.06 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 - £56.00
Manchester median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +25.00% -37.62%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Foundry
1 4 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks