AI Agents Contracts in the City of London

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 675 656 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.02% 31.63% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 420 752
10th Percentile £344 £350 £313
25th Percentile £456 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £619
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.03% +5.73%
75th Percentile £700 £705 £750
90th Percentile £805 £838 £857
Central London median daily rate £586 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.83% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £16.96 £14.38 £27.64
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -37.23% -21.13%
75th Percentile £65.57 £27.00 £60.88
90th Percentile £91.00 £59.75 £74.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.29 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.84% -32.00% -30.69%

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker