Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in the City of London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 165 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 8 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.38% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £59,375 - -
25th Percentile £63,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £93,125 - -
90th Percentile £96,875 - -
Central London median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,828 2,592 2,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.63% 95.40% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 1,692 2,440
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,475
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the City of London

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (12.50%) H2O.ai
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) n8n
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Zapier
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Science Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 1 (12.50%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) AI Agents
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Presales
5 2 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 1 (12.50%) Intelligent Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Multi-Agent System
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) NVIDIA
2 1 (12.50%) UiPath