Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in Kent

Semantic Search
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
South East median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 110 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 84.88% 85.94% 78.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 55 115
10th Percentile £180 £205 £202
25th Percentile £225 £339 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +16.67% +23.29%
75th Percentile £563 £623 £550
90th Percentile £638 £688 £608
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 14
10th Percentile £16.63 £17.80 £11.58
25th Percentile £20.07 £21.22 £16.31
Median hourly rate £21.61 £52.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.45% +46.48% -18.86%
75th Percentile £29.08 £62.28 £52.97
90th Percentile £39.00 £72.25 £55.18
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%

Semantic Search
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £650 -
Semantic Search
South East

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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