Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in Scotland

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.073% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £92,500 -
% change year-on-year -18.92% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,421 2,792 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.81% 84.86% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,303 1,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £69,013
90th Percentile £79,775 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in Scotland

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. 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
Glasgow - 2 £100,000 - 2
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
UK

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft