Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 724 394 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.65% 92.49% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 256 436
10th Percentile £313 £263 £281
25th Percentile £419 £350 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -7.75% -7.41%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £600
90th Percentile £638 £644 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 20
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.69
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -80.32%
75th Percentile £28.75 £97.60 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £15.25
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.38 £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year -44.09% +119.47% -64.26%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Science
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Foundry
2 1 (50.00%) OpenAI