Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 993 892 1,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.42% 80.80% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 595 654
10th Percentile £311 £360 £300
25th Percentile £421 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 61 88
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £16.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.20
Median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +25.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £62.81
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £57.54 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.01% +9.60% +18.00%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Farnborough - 2 £508 - 2
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
South East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Faiss
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python