Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £570 - -
UK median daily rate £700 £600 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the UK excluding London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the UK excluding London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the UK excluding London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East - 2 £350 - 60
South West - 1 £550 - 19
Scotland - 1 £500 - 11
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
UK

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FHIR
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational AI
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI