AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Derby

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Derby. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.01% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £723 - -
25th Percentile £738 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £813 - -
90th Percentile £828 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £605 - -

All Generic Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 60 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 30.15% 24.07% 26.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 16
10th Percentile £350 £309 £310
25th Percentile £513 £453 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +19.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £666 £706 £572
90th Percentile £685 £725 £739
Derbyshire median daily rate £575 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 0
10th Percentile - £18.70 -
25th Percentile £12.76 £20.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.33 £25.08 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.96% - -
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.11 -
90th Percentile - £25.14 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.00 £25.08 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.30% -49.85% +182.17%

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Governance