Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Semantic Search
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Semantic Search 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 176 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.025% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £500 £563 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Semantic Search 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 3,321 1,653 2,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.61% 88.44% 82.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,106 1,122 1,518
10th Percentile £291 £200 £231
25th Percentile £400 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 75 179
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.66 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.20 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.63% -4.21% +7.28%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £35.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Semantic Search
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 Semantic Search within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
West Midlands - 1 - -
Semantic Search
England

Semantic Search
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree