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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
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 £650 - -

All Process & 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 896 463 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.99% 92.23% 87.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 292 536
10th Percentile £308 £263 £288
25th Percentile £413 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £635 £638 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 31
10th Percentile £13.11 £20.62 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £22.14 £12.15
Median hourly rate £15.38 £27.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -44.09% +119.47% -64.26%
75th Percentile £23.71 £41.50 £15.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £99.59 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.19 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +9.19% +57.33% +27.00%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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 2 April 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
Leeds - 2 £575 - 7
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Science
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Sharing
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Presales
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI