Question Answering Contract Job Trends

Question Answering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Question Answering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Question Answering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.002% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Question Answering 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,064 29,610 35,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.35% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,992 18,619 23,013
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.54%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 1,563 2,287
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.40 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -9.24%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.14 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £70.00 £73.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.92% -36.16% -6.05%

Question Answering
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Question Answering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Question Answering job vacancy trend in the UK

Question Answering
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Question Answering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Question Answering

Question Answering
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Question Answering within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
London - 1 £535 - 2
England - 1 £535 - 2

Question Answering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) pgvector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker