AI Agents Contracts in the East of England

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.097% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 405 505 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.13% 25.51% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 239 385
10th Percentile £225 £177 £204
25th Percentile £400 £290 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -6.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £552 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.40% +2.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 129 35
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.86 £20.70
25th Percentile £21.85 £24.75 £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £59.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +8.18% +66.77%
75th Percentile £81.54 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.75 £80.25 £72.25
England median hourly rate £33.89 £36.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year -7.16% +62.33% -15.15%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing AI Agents as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for AI Agents in the East of England

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 34
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java