Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 331 286 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.50% 92.56% 86.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 130 151
10th Percentile £171 £310 £250
25th Percentile £360 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £539 £593 £575
90th Percentile £599 £702 £710
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 30 14
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.60 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £16.44
Median hourly rate £24.08 £22.75 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% +15.19% -12.22%
75th Percentile £53.19 £46.18 £43.07
90th Percentile £54.13 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Durham - 1 - - 1
Tyne and Wear - 1 £450 - 1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL