Semantic Search Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Semantic Search
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Semantic Search 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 157 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Search 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.031% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,631 1,538 2,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.20% 92.32% 84.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,691 923 1,203
10th Percentile £310 £300 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £608
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 104 153
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £13.84
25th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £24.91 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +227.24% -49.17% -1.01%
75th Percentile £88.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £104.00 £82.10 £86.73
South East median hourly rate £57.25 £23.25 £54.62
% change year-on-year +146.24% -57.43% +9.24%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Semantic Search
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 Semantic Search within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Berkshire - 1 £775 - 1
Semantic Search
South East

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Full Text Search
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python