Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £842 - -
25th Percentile £853 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £893 - -
75th Percentile £921 - -
90th Percentile £925 - -
South East median daily rate £650 £475 -
% change year-on-year +36.84% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 143 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 74.39% 90.51% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 76 101
10th Percentile £225 £182 £180
25th Percentile £364 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £588 £541 £500
90th Percentile £719 £688 £600
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 20 19
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.29 £11.50
25th Percentile £19.30 £24.08 £12.08
Median hourly rate £47.52 £25.90 £25.99
Median % change year-on-year +83.47% -0.35% -19.54%
75th Percentile £56.25 £54.10 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.63 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £21.58 £57.35
% change year-on-year +167.83% -62.38% +14.70%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Biotechnology
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform