Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in Central London

Semantic Search
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £522 - -
90th Percentile £764 - -
London median daily rate £350 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,827 2,157 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.54% 92.22% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,351 1,714
10th Percentile £343 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £465 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £527 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +30.84% -35.93%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
% change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in Central London

Semantic Search
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Search in Central London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Search in Central London

Semantic Search
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 Semantic Search within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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 £350 - 7
Semantic Search
London

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 2 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Textract
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Figma
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) boto
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) NumPy
2 2 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Faiss
3 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (25.00%) LangChain
3 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (25.00%) OAuth
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Redux
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (25.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) B2B
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) OCR
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Amplitude
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI