Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contracts in Central London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retrieval-Augmented Generation over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 130 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.044% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.048% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
London median daily rate £525 £600 -
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,093 3,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.85% 91.56% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,443 2,214
10th Percentile £325 £375 £340
25th Percentile £425 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 19
10th Percentile £22.08 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.43 £15.93
Median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -19.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £56.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -16.31% -12.96% +12.50%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Central London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Central London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Central London over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Central London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 August 2025. 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
City of London +4 3 £525 -12.50% 13
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Pinecone
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) Faiss
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) LangChain
2 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform