Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 164 198
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 12 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.097% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.12% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 1
10th Percentile £316 £472 -
25th Percentile £407 £476 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £488 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% -30.25% -
75th Percentile £491 £508 -
90th Percentile £519 £510 -
England median daily rate £525 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,523 3,476 4,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.87% 84.04% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,292 1,995 3,012
10th Percentile £265 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £684
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 182 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.67 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.31 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £36.19 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.11 £70.00 £62.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the North of England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the North of England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
North West -1 11 £433 -11.42% 12
North East - 1 £450 - 3
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 4 (33.33%) Vertex AI
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Pinecone
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) LangChain
2 4 (33.33%) CrewAI
3 2 (16.67%) Faiss
3 2 (16.67%) Gradio
3 2 (16.67%) LangGraph
3 2 (16.67%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 4 (33.33%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) LLM
2 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 8 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
3 7 (58.33%) Generative AI
4 6 (50.00%) Data Science
4 6 (50.00%) Open Source
5 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Conversational UI
6 4 (33.33%) Memory Management
6 4 (33.33%) Multi-Agent System
6 4 (33.33%) Semantic Search
7 3 (25.00%) API Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (25.00%) MLOps
7 3 (25.00%) Observability
7 3 (25.00%) Use Case
8 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (16.67%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike