Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in the South West

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.028% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £100,000 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,871 5,735 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.82% 76.06% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,816 3,424 3,355
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the South West

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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 Retrieval-Augmented Generation within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Devon - 1 £77,500 - 2
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
England

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA