AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Coventry

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.97% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £663 - -

All Generic Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 121 53 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 39.03% 44.92% 26.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 23 21
10th Percentile £261 £315 £375
25th Percentile £319 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -6.67% +32.35%
75th Percentile £500 £626 £626
90th Percentile £593 £725 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £487 £545
% change year-on-year +0.97% -10.60% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.04%
75th Percentile £16.69 - £18.50
90th Percentile £21.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £33.91 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.24% -0.06% +23.38%

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) ChatGPT
2 2 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Vercel
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) LangChain
1 3 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) OpenID
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ
3 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (33.33%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational AI
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft