Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £513 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 346 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 84.47% 89.41% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 227 433
10th Percentile £204 £203 £196
25th Percentile £260 £280 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -7.32% +0.99%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £595
90th Percentile £678 £658 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £517
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.40% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 30
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.63 £22.84
25th Percentile £31.05 £23.21 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -62.22% +42.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £28.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £52.82 £78.74
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +24.29%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Staines - 2 £425 -
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
South East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Gemini
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI