Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contracts in London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retrieval-Augmented Generation over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 390 -
Rank change year-on-year +50 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 10 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.082% 0.040% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.045% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £423 £491 -
25th Percentile £550 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% - -
75th Percentile £725 £628 -
90th Percentile £763 £645 -
England median daily rate £600 £538 -
% change year-on-year +11.63% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in London.

Daily rate trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Central London - 1 £775 - 2
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Vertex AI
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Weaviate
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LangChain
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
2 2 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Generative AI
3 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (60.00%) LLM
5 5 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
6 4 (40.00%) Data Science
7 3 (30.00%) Agile
7 3 (30.00%) Natural Language Processing
8 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
8 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 2 (20.00%) DevOps
8 2 (20.00%) MLOps
9 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
9 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
9 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 1 (10.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI