Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Central London

Agentic AI Engineer
London > Central London

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in Central London is £705, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.34% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - -
London median daily rate £663 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 1,939 1,985 2,487
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 92.76% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,248 1,787
10th Percentile £350 £361 £338
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.45% -4.26%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 34
10th Percentile £19.24 £17.28 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £37.63
90th Percentile £50.30 £55.80 £60.58
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -12.59%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in Central London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 7 £705 -
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) AI
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (42.86%) Bicep
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) OpenAI
3 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (28.57%) Azure App Service
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
4 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Azure App Service
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
2 2 (28.57%) Google Gemini
2 2 (28.57%) LangSmith
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
1 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
1 2 (28.57%) Flask
1 2 (28.57%) Model Context Protocol
1 2 (28.57%) Next.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (14.29%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) API Development
4 2 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) EU AI Act
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Istio
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) OpenAI
2 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace