Question Answering Contract Job Trends in England

Question Answering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Question Answering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Question Answering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.002% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £535 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Question Answering 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,476 24,845 30,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 90.65% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,188 15,947 20,132
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,382 1,317 2,080
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.26 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.84
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.68% -9.41%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.47 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -9.24%

Question Answering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Question Answering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Question Answering job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Question Answering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Question Answering

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Question Answering within the England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
London - 1 £535 - 2
Question Answering
UK

Question Answering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) pgvector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker