Question Answering Job Trends

Question Answering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Question Answering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 797 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Question Answering 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £68,875 - -
90th Percentile £71,350 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Question Answering 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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Question Answering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Question Answering job vacancy trend in the UK

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Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Question Answering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Question Answering

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Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Question Answering within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
UK excluding London - 5 £65,000 - 4
England - 4 £62,500 - 13
Scotland - 4 - - 1
London - 3 £60,000 - 10
North East - 1 £65,000 - 1
North of England - 1 £65,000 - 1

Question Answering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure AI
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Figma
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Law
2 4 (50.00%) Private Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Data Scientist
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior UX Designer
4 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
1 8 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 8 (100.00%) LLM
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (87.50%) Data Science
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) Natural Language Processing
2 7 (87.50%) Prompt Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Semantic Search
2 7 (87.50%) Statistical Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
3 5 (62.50%) Model Validation
3 5 (62.50%) Validation
4 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Decision Tree
4 4 (50.00%) Personalization
4 4 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) PhD
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft