Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in Bristol

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £70,625 - -
90th Percentile £88,250 - -
South West median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Retrieval-Augmented Generation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,417 1,179 2,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 62.40% 91.75% 91.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 636 1,827
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.07%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,125 £87,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Bristol over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Bristol

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (66.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) Trainee
1 2 (66.67%) Trainee Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hugging Face
1 2 (66.67%) Matplotlib
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) Streamlit
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Neural Network
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Sentiment Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft