Information Retrieval Job Trends in the City of London

Information Retrieval
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Information Retrieval skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Information Retrieval 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.061% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% - 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £120,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £140,000 - -
75th Percentile £160,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £140,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Information Retrieval 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,620 1,662 2,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.39% 96.01% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,899 1,303 1,859
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,425
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Retrieval relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Information Retrieval job vacancy trend in the City of London

Information Retrieval
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Retrieval.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Research Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Research Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared