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 £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £619 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £819 - -
90th Percentile £853 - -
Central London median daily rate £725 - -

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 2,278 1,643 2,047
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 93.78% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,042 1,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £453 £453 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £568
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.91% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 16
10th Percentile £17.56 £17.02 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.33 £32.83 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.02% +44.29% -35.00%
75th Percentile £42.91 £63.75 £32.03
90th Percentile £60.25 £89.88 £45.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £30.04 £26.78
% change year-on-year -10.10% +12.15% -23.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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 26 June 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 4 (80.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) React
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
2 1 (20.00%) LangSmith
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Genomics
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) MLOps
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Transcriptomics
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce