Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Agentic AI Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in the City of 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 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 - -
Central London median daily rate £705 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,765 1,750 2,293
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 93.04% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,069 1,649
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +2.22% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -6.09% +4.45% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 20
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.18 £16.58
25th Percentile £24.37 £20.00 £18.45
Median hourly rate £37.25 £27.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.70% +13.54% -5.88%
75th Percentile £43.86 £58.19 £41.69
90th Percentile £52.96 £112.00 £52.60
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.91
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.09% +6.55%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 City of 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 the City of 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