Retrieval-Augmented Generation Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Retrieval-Augmented Generation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile £91,250 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £37,500 £92,500 -
% change year-on-year -59.46% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 1,199 2,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 79.08% 90.56% 89.62%
Number of salaries quoted 967 618 1,768
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,850 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £71,725
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +6.00% -8.90%

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retrieval-Augmented Generation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Retrieval-Augmented Generation in West Yorkshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Leeds - 3 £37,500 - 4
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Yorkshire

Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (66.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) Trainee
1 2 (66.67%) Trainee Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Hugging Face
1 2 (66.67%) Matplotlib
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) Streamlit
2 1 (33.33%) LangChain
2 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) Neural Network
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Sentiment Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI