Information Retrieval Jobs

Information Retrieval
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 703 891 962
Rank change year-on-year +188 +71 +43
Permanent jobs citing Information Retrieval 6 21 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.021% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.024% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 2
10th Percentile - £43,000 £55,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -29.63% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £74,375
90th Percentile - £57,000 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -40.63% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Information Retrieval as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Information Retrieval in the UK

Information Retrieval
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Information Retrieval in the UK

Information Retrieval
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Information Retrieval within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +169 6 £50,000 +5.26% 192
London +103 4 - - 56
Work from Home - 4 £50,000 - 168
UK excluding London +181 2 £50,000 +5.26% 160
South West - 2 £50,000 - 19

Information Retrieval
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Neo4j
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) LangChain
2 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 2 (33.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Robotics
3 2 (33.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Semantic Search
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
3 4 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Data Science
4 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) RDF
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Statistics
6 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
1 5 (83.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) PhD
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI