Semantic Search Contracts in the North West

Semantic Search
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Semantic Search skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Search over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.099% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £444 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,805 2,335 2,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.96% 84.17% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,425 1,893
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £663 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 262 145
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.97 £14.15 £20.22
Median hourly rate £31.88 £27.75 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.88% -9.14% +29.71%
75th Percentile £63.10 £46.18 £45.06
90th Percentile £81.72 £66.61 £60.89
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Semantic Search as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Search in the North West

Semantic Search
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 Semantic Search within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 - 2 £325 - 2
Semantic Search
England

Semantic Search
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 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) Gradio
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google