Question Answering Contract Job Trends in London

Question Answering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Question Answering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Question Answering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £535 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Question Answering 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,717 12,562 15,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.12% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,411 10,825
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 238 258
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -6.11% -21.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £70.03
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.68% -9.41%

Question Answering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Question Answering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Question Answering job vacancy trend in London

Question Answering
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Question Answering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Question Answering

Question Answering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) pgvector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker