Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Agentic AI Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £500, 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 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.02% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 96 123 172
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.97% 97.62% 98.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 91 114
10th Percentile £274 £380 £231
25th Percentile £492 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £547 £600 £629
90th Percentile £581 £638 £675
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £67.70 £53.80 £23.50
% change year-on-year +25.84% +128.94% -46.11%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

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 Croydon region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI