Information Retrieval Job Trends in South Wales

Information Retrieval
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Information Retrieval skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Information Retrieval 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

Information Retrieval 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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,166 478 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 69.65% 84.60% 65.98%
Number of salaries quoted 869 355 635
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,421
25th Percentile £38,841 £35,500 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £52,500 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% +12.65% -6.79%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,055 £70,150
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Information Retrieval relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Information Retrieval job vacancy trend in South Wales

Information Retrieval
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Information Retrieval.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Retrieval within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Neath Port Talbot - 2 - - 1
Information Retrieval
Wales

Information Retrieval
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Back Office
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Head of Business Intelligence
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Experimental Design
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Product Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL