Information Retrieval Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Information Retrieval
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Information Retrieval skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Retrieval 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Information Retrieval 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,653 1,895 2,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 92.17% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,156 1,604
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £422 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Retrieval relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Information Retrieval job vacancy trend in the City of London

Information Retrieval
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Retrieval.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (66.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational AI
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Personalization
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Sentiment Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared