AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.69% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £569 - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £625 - -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

AI Agents falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 299 159 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.57% 30.06% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 116 164
10th Percentile £263 £191 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £517 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +14.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £620 £575
90th Percentile £625 £678 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile £17.09 £16.00 £19.65
25th Percentile £17.17 £22.00 £23.12
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -9.09% +59.38%
75th Percentile £23.50 £30.68 £52.63
90th Percentile £24.85 - £64.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £19.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +32.37% -15.56% +4.37%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Birmingham

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 6 (100.00%) Law
1 6 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Consultant
1 5 (83.33%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
1 5 (83.33%) Transformation Consultant
2 4 (66.67%) Business Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Legal Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Project Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Transformation Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) Business Transformation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling