Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Semantic Search
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,414 943 1,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 82.31% 85.73% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 421 812
10th Percentile £194 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 164 427
10th Percentile £13.80 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the East of England

Semantic Search
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
Suffolk - 2 £650 -
Semantic Search
England

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI