Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.086% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £570 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -18.57% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,951 1,868 2,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.99% 88.24% 83.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,850 1,163 1,525
10th Percentile £256 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% +4.21% -1.87%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 69 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.75 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -4.04% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.03 £33.54 £46.56
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £65.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Midlands

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
East Midlands - 3 £375 - 7
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
3 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Gen AI Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) FastAPI
1 2 (66.67%) Flask
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (33.33%) CrewAI
2 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
2 1 (33.33%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (33.33%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Storytelling
3 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google