AI Agents Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 4.82% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £566 - -
90th Percentile £571 - -
South East median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22 16 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 26.51% 13.01% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 6
10th Percentile £220 £295 £156
25th Percentile £390 £327 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £243
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +95.88% -48.95%
75th Percentile £617 £489 £403
90th Percentile £627 £533 £453
South East median daily rate £519 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +3.75% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £30.50 -
25th Percentile - £30.87 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £31.61 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.80% +191.67%
75th Percentile - £32.22 £53.75
90th Percentile - £32.51 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £33.47 £57.35
% change year-on-year +79.28% -41.64% +14.70%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in East Sussex

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in East Sussex over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI Agents in East Sussex

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
Brighton - 4 £525 - 4
AI Agents
South East

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) n8n
1 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (50.00%) Zapier
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (25.00%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (25.00%) pydantic
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft