Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 1.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 102 42 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 87.93% 91.30% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 19 34
10th Percentile £283 £300 £300
25th Percentile £347 £421 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.75% -14.88%
75th Percentile £594 £609 £578
90th Percentile £655 £651 £655
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 0
10th Percentile £17.11 - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £24.77 £22.14 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% - -
75th Percentile £27.39 - -
90th Percentile £28.00 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £13.50
% change year-on-year +8.40% +64.00% -28.95%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft