Information Retrieval Jobs in the South West

Information Retrieval
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Information Retrieval skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Information Retrieval over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Information Retrieval 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.056% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £55,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -40.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,316 7,724 6,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.33% 83.50% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,901 5,557 3,595
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,627
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Information Retrieval as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Information Retrieval in the South West

Information Retrieval
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Information Retrieval in the South West.

Salary trend for Information Retrieval in the South West

Information Retrieval
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Bristol - 2 £50,000 - 1
Information Retrieval
England

Information Retrieval
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks