Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contracts in Merseyside

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £588 £489 -
% change year-on-year +20.14% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 167 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 82.61% 72.61% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 193
10th Percentile £134 £143 £290
25th Percentile £213 £213 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £538
90th Percentile £650 £588 £608
North West median daily rate £455 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 9
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile £12.21 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.37 £25.11 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +43.50% +45.83%
75th Percentile £17.44 £36.06 £30.00
90th Percentile £19.74 £39.15 £52.60
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £28.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +13.86% -8.32% +28.86%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Liverpool - 2 £325 - 4
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
North West

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

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) Gradio
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google