Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 8 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £513 £604 -
25th Percentile £519 £609 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £663 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% - -
75th Percentile £769 £725 -
90th Percentile £880 - -
Central London median daily rate £567 £663 -
% change year-on-year -14.42% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,629 1,938 2,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.11% 91.94% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,226 1,882
10th Percentile £320 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £765 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.40 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.88 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £32.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +31.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £56.75 £107.13 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the City of London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the City of London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) Faiss
2 2 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (25.00%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (12.50%) NumPy
3 1 (12.50%) Pandas
3 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) AI Agents
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (75.00%) LLM
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) RBAC
4 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCP
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) EU AI Act
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Alteryx
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Foundry
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft