Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Semantic Search
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £350 - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,658 1,907 2,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 92.21% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,165 1,592
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £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 £761 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 10
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -24.84% +30.84% -35.93%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the City of London

Semantic Search
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Search in the City of London

Semantic Search
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:

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