Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contracts in the South East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Retrieval-Augmented Generation over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £585 - -
England median daily rate £513 £538 -
% change year-on-year -4.56% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,151 4,118 5,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.03% 82.87% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,971 2,495 3,428
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 330 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.03 £21.22
Median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +112.77%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the South East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the South East over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the South East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Berkshire - 5 £475 - 1
Thames Valley - 5 £475 - 1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (40.00%) WhatsApp
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FHIR
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) MLOps
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
4 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
4 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
1 1 (20.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI