Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in Sheffield

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 1 8 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Sheffield 0.21% 1.90% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 2.14% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 £88,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £92,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.46% - -
75th Percentile £41,250 £96,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £37,500 £92,500 -
% change year-on-year -59.46% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 345 374 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 73.56% 88.84% 85.75%
Number of salaries quoted 258 141 537
10th Percentile - £35,250 £26,317
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +31.58% -
75th Percentile £57,835 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
South Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -36.00% +31.58% +5.56%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Salary Trend in Sheffield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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