Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in Wales

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.064% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -30.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,030 686 988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.42% 82.45% 65.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 515 658
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £28,850
25th Percentile £38,000 £29,750 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +7.18% -0.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
South Wales - 2 £120,000 - 5
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
UK

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) n8n
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL