Semantic Search Job Trends in the North West

Semantic Search
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Search 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £82,000 £110,000 -
% change year-on-year -25.45% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Semantic Search 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,082 4,606 6,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 72.47% 89.37% 77.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,867 2,208 3,547
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,587 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Semantic Search relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the North West

Semantic Search
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Search within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Manchester - 2 £75,000 - 6
Merseyside - 2 - -
Semantic Search
England

Semantic Search
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Dataform
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Google Ads
2 2 (50.00%) Google Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Google Data Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Chroma
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (25.00%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Claude Code
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (25.00%) Faiss
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (25.00%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (25.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google