Semantic Search Job Trends

Semantic Search
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Semantic Search skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 704 712
Rank change year-on-year +59 +8 +327
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Search 2 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.018% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.020% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100,000 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% - -
75th Percentile £120,000 £82,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Semantic Search 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 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

Semantic Search
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Semantic Search job vacancy trend in the UK

Semantic Search
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Semantic Search.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Semantic Search

Semantic Search
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Search within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 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 +57 1 £110,000 +46.67% 110
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
UK excluding London - 1 - - 81

Semantic Search
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EDI
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft