Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in the North East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £41,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £66,250 £92,500 -
% change year-on-year -28.38% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 984 714 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 75.63% 91.30% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 666 300 1,006
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £83,875 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in the North East

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 5 £37,500 - 3
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 5 (100.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) Programmer
1 5 (100.00%) Trainee
1 5 (100.00%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 5 (100.00%) NumPy
1 5 (100.00%) Pandas
1 5 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 5 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 5 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Neural Network
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 5 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft