Semantic Search Contracts in England

Semantic Search
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Semantic Search skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Search over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 - -
75th Percentile £487 - -
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK median daily rate £426 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,069 28,437 39,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.77% 85.81% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,944 18,525 27,489
10th Percentile £300 £313 £323
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,444 1,596 1,364
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.14 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% +5.44% +50.28%
75th Percentile £50.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Semantic Search as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Search in England

Semantic Search
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Semantic Search in England.

Daily rate trend for Semantic Search in England

Semantic Search
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Search in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Search in England

Semantic Search
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 Semantic Search within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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 - 4 £563 - 33
North West - 4 £413 -
North of England - 4 £413 -
Semantic Search
UK

Semantic Search
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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Applications Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Search Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CrewAI
1 4 (50.00%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) Faiss
2 2 (25.00%) Gradio
2 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (25.00%) Streamlit
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (37.50%) AI Agents
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 6 (75.00%) API Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Conversational UI
4 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) Memory Management
4 4 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
4 4 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) Conversational AI
5 3 (37.50%) Generative AI
5 3 (37.50%) Observability
5 3 (37.50%) Use Case
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) MCP
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google