Hybrid/Remote Retrieval-Augmented Generation Contract Job Trends

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 305 374
Rank change year-on-year +62 +69 -
Contract jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 75 7 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.065% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.072% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 4 3
10th Percentile £328 £519 -
25th Percentile £446 £603 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £644 £736 £625
90th Percentile £803 £757 -
UK median daily rate £567 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -12.77% -7.14% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,051 9,656 14,369
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.49% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,937 6,059 9,750
10th Percentile £330 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 181 380
10th Percentile £15.57 £18.50 £16.08
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (54.67%) AWS
2 24 (32.00%) Azure
3 13 (17.33%) GitHub
4 11 (14.67%) Vertex AI
5 9 (12.00%) GCP
5 9 (12.00%) Google Gemini
6 8 (10.67%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (9.33%) Serverless
8 6 (8.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 6 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.00%) Azure AI
12 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.67%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) Pinecone
2 10 (13.33%) Weaviate
3 5 (6.67%) Redis
4 4 (5.33%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.67%) CockroachDB
5 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.33%) Metadata
6 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) MLflow
3 1 (1.33%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) Selenium
3 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Finance
5 2 (2.67%) Banking
5 2 (2.67%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (64.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 15 (20.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Senior
4 9 (12.00%) Architect
4 9 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 7 (9.33%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Python Engineer
6 6 (8.00%) Implementation Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Architect
7 5 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 2 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 2 (2.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Developer
10 2 (2.67%) GCP Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Security Architect
10 2 (2.67%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (33.33%) LangChain
2 23 (30.67%) FastAPI
3 12 (16.00%) Faiss
3 12 (16.00%) LangGraph
3 12 (16.00%) React
4 8 (10.67%) CrewAI
5 7 (9.33%) PyTorch
5 7 (9.33%) SQLAlchemy
6 6 (8.00%) Hugging Face
6 6 (8.00%) Node.js
7 5 (6.67%) pydantic
7 5 (6.67%) TensorFlow
8 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.33%) Vue
9 3 (4.00%) pgvector
9 3 (4.00%) scikit-learn
10 2 (2.67%) boto
10 2 (2.67%) Flask
10 2 (2.67%) Pandas
10 2 (2.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.67%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.67%) Autonomous Agent
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.33%) CUDA
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Unix
2 2 (2.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) AI
2 68 (90.67%) LLM
3 46 (61.33%) Machine Learning
4 43 (57.33%) Generative AI
5 39 (52.00%) Prompt Engineering
6 29 (38.67%) CI/CD
7 22 (29.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 20 (26.67%) Roadmaps
9 19 (25.33%) Agile
9 19 (25.33%) Data Science
10 18 (24.00%) MLOps
11 14 (18.67%) Conversational UI
12 12 (16.00%) Data Engineering
12 12 (16.00%) DevOps
13 11 (14.67%) Data Ingestion
13 11 (14.67%) Use Case
14 10 (13.33%) Conversational AI
14 10 (13.33%) Information Retrieval
14 10 (13.33%) Sentiment Analysis
15 9 (12.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 59 (78.67%) Python
2 14 (18.67%) SQL
3 7 (9.33%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.67%) Java
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) Go
6 1 (1.33%) PHP
6 1 (1.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) MCP
2 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) QA
4 1 (1.33%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Terraform
3 2 (2.67%) Istio
3 2 (2.67%) Knative
3 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) OpenAI
2 6 (8.00%) Databricks
3 5 (6.67%) Google
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.33%) Qualtrics
5 1 (1.33%) Salesforce