Information Retrieval Contract Job Trends in Durham

Information Retrieval
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Information Retrieval skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Information Retrieval 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 3.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 53 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 70.97% 89.83% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 35
10th Percentile £165 £400 -
25th Percentile £227 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +16.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £523 £594 £525
90th Percentile £548 £750 £588
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £18.46 £17.30 -
25th Percentile £20.20 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.11 £26.50 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +71.41% -
75th Percentile £26.01 £28.14 -
90th Percentile £27.75 £29.12 -
North East median hourly rate £24.08 £22.75 £19.75
% change year-on-year +5.85% +15.19% -12.22%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Information Retrieval job vacancy trend in Durham

Information Retrieval
Contract Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Retrieval within the Durham region over the 6 months to 2 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
Darlington - 1 - - 1
Information Retrieval
North East

Information Retrieval
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python