Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Semantic Search
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 174 -
Rank change year-on-year -74 - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.028% 0.053% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
England median daily rate £625 £444 -
% change year-on-year +40.85% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,037 3,368 3,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.12% 88.72% 84.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 2,164 2,349
10th Percentile £313 £268 £297
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £469 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -4.97% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 196 338
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.40
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.44 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.63 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +98.85% +1.71% -9.46%
75th Percentile £71.91 £45.13 £46.11
90th Percentile £83.75 £72.50 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the North of England

Semantic Search
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Semantic Search.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Semantic Search

Semantic Search
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 Semantic Search within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
North West -48 2 £650 +100.00% 5
Semantic Search
England

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI