Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation 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 Retrieval-Augmented Generation 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £718 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £625 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 926 450 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 87.44% 93.95% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 298 213
10th Percentile £366 £301 £376
25th Percentile £430 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -6.31% -15.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £639 £644
South Yorkshire median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.48% -5.10% -11.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £14.51 £17.33 £20.50
Median hourly rate £16.67 £18.36 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% -14.62% +13.16%
75th Percentile £18.67 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £19.07 - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £16.67 £18.36 £12.83
% change year-on-year -9.19% +43.08% +20.70%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Sheffield

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Google Gemini
2 3 (42.86%) Vertex AI
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) A2A Protocol
1 3 (42.86%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) LLM
2 5 (71.43%) Generative AI
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Use Case
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Data Security
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Low Latency
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Distributed Cache
6 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAI
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle