Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contracts in England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retrieval-Augmented Generation over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 550 -
Rank change year-on-year +86 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 22 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.024% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.028% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 0
10th Percentile £365 £494 -
25th Percentile £412 £509 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £716 £611 -
90th Percentile £827 £645 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,947 31,985 42,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.42% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,830 20,733 29,654
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 2,360 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.54 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in England.

Daily rate trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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 Retrieval-Augmented Generation within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
London +47 12 £550 -4.35% 174
South East - 5 £475 - 26
North of England - 2 £650 - 17
North East - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 £850 - 12
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
UK

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AI
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) Vertex AI
5 2 (9.09%) WhatsApp
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.55%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.55%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) Weaviate
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) LangChain
2 4 (18.18%) FastAPI
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
4 2 (9.09%) FHIR
4 2 (9.09%) NumPy
4 2 (9.09%) Pandas
5 1 (4.55%) Express.js
5 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (81.82%) LLM
3 15 (68.18%) Generative AI
4 14 (63.64%) Machine Learning
5 8 (36.36%) Prompt Engineering
6 7 (31.82%) Natural Language Processing
7 6 (27.27%) Data Science
7 6 (27.27%) MLOps
8 5 (22.73%) Agile
9 4 (18.18%) Analytics
9 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
9 4 (18.18%) Customer Experience
10 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 3 (13.64%) DevOps
10 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
11 2 (9.09%) Use Case
11 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.55%) HL7
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike