Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in the North West

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 11 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £316 £472 -
25th Percentile £407 £476 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% - -
75th Percentile £495 £508 -
90th Percentile £552 £510 -
England median daily rate £525 £625 -
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,010 2,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.58% 83.51% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,154 1,686
10th Percentile £296 £294 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 109 164
10th Percentile £13.61 £16.45 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.39 £28.50 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £49.84 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.06 £72.10 £66.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the North West

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the North West over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the North West

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Merseyside - 4 £413 - 1
Cheshire -24 3 £435 -10.91% 1
Manchester - 3 £430 - 10
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (36.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure AI
2 4 (36.36%) Vertex AI
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Pinecone
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) LangChain
2 4 (36.36%) CrewAI
3 2 (18.18%) Faiss
3 2 (18.18%) Gradio
3 2 (18.18%) LangGraph
3 2 (18.18%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Autonomous Agent
1 4 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) LLM
2 7 (63.64%) Generative AI
2 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
2 7 (63.64%) Prompt Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Data Science
3 6 (54.55%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Conversational UI
4 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
4 4 (36.36%) Memory Management
4 4 (36.36%) Multi-Agent System
4 4 (36.36%) Semantic Search
5 3 (27.27%) API Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) MLOps
5 3 (27.27%) Observability
5 3 (27.27%) Use Case
6 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) MCP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike