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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing AI Agents 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £684 - -
25th Percentile £716 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £788 - -
75th Percentile £866 - -
90th Percentile £901 - -
Central London median daily rate £788 - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 632 1,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.17% 30.55% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 405 703
10th Percentile £361 £361 £320
25th Percentile £463 £475 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -0.75% +2.13%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £738
90th Percentile £813 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £600 £589 £600
% change year-on-year +1.95% -1.92% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £22.39
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £30.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -25.00% -26.53%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £47.66
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £26.98 £25.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.59% -26.31% -28.57%

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Agents in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Google Gemini
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Pinecone
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) LangChain
2 2 (33.33%) Faiss
2 2 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (50.00%) LLM
3 3 (50.00%) RBAC
3 3 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) MLOps
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (16.67%) Google