Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in Reading

Semantic Search
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading 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 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.088% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £775 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 954 536 1,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.68% 91.94% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 339 543
10th Percentile £343 £350 £303
25th Percentile £450 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -3.17% +3.27%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £689
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 17 50
10th Percentile £55.80 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £49.63
Median hourly rate £84.50 £20.75 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +307.23% -66.17% -6.46%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £85.34
90th Percentile £107.00 £60.50 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.33
% change year-on-year +125.32% -39.21% +3.29%

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Full Text Search
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python