Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in the South West

Semantic Search
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 - -
75th Percentile £595 - -
90th Percentile £733 - -
England median daily rate £625 £426 -
% change year-on-year +46.63% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,888 1,771 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.91% 90.22% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 1,000 1,237
10th Percentile £338 £213 £300
25th Percentile £457 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.55% -3.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £717 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 265 206
10th Percentile £14.31 £15.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £18.51 £46.69
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +9.15%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.75 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Search relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the South West

Semantic Search
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Search in the South West over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Search in the South West

Semantic Search
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
Bristol - 1 £800 - 1
Wiltshire - 1 £513 - 2
Semantic Search
England

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Chroma
1 2 (50.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
1 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Interaction Design
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google