Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
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 - -
South East median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,472 1,895 2,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.81% 85.40% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 1,066 1,678
10th Percentile £270 £280 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £524
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.72% +4.85%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 81 90
10th Percentile £14.20 £18.70 £16.39
25th Percentile £15.13 £30.41 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +16.98% +163.16%
75th Percentile £44.68 £67.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £86.08 £75.03
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +75.90%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Thames Valley

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Thames Valley

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 September 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 - 4 £475 - 10
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
South East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (50.00%) WhatsApp
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FHIR
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Express.js
2 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Conversational AI
4 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HL7
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
1 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI