AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Croydon

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
South London > Croydon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Croydon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.06% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.08% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South London median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 49 20 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 25.93% 21.98% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 11 15
10th Percentile £158 £170 £249
25th Percentile £420 £350 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £606 £638 £575
90th Percentile £731 £675 £658
South London median daily rate £517 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -20.50% +36.84% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% +4.44%

AI Agents
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
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
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
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
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
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
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