Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 776 667 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.70% 86.06% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 417 750
10th Percentile £288 £321 £307
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £652 £658 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £495 £510
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 15
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.03
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.25 £17.07
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.80%
75th Percentile £46.56 £38.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £56.25 £30.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +28.21% -11.36% +15.24%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Leeds - 1 £575 - 1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Yorkshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI