Information Retrieval Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Information Retrieval
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 - 667
Rank change year-on-year - - +177
Permanent jobs citing Information Retrieval 5 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% - 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £58,750
25th Percentile £45,000 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -40.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Information Retrieval
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Information Retrieval as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Information Retrieval trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Information Retrieval
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Information Retrieval.

Information Retrieval salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Information Retrieval
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Neo4j
1 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (80.00%) Robotics
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) LLM
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Semantic Search
2 4 (80.00%) Knowledge Management
2 4 (80.00%) RDF
2 4 (80.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks