A2A Protocol Contract Job Trends in England

Agent2Agent Protocol
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring A2A Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing A2A Protocol 32 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.088% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 21 0 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £616 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

A2A Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,826 5,573 7,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.42% 22.59% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,244 3,752 5,399
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 86 200
10th Percentile £35.03 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.85 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

A2A Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing A2A Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

A2A Protocol job vacancy trend in England

A2A Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing A2A Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing A2A Protocol

A2A Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing A2A Protocol in England over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for A2A Protocol in England

A2A Protocol
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing A2A Protocol within the England region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
London - 15 £663 - 5
East of England - 11 £550 -
North of England - 5 £725 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £725 - 1
A2A Protocol
UK

A2A Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) Azure
2 19 (59.38%) GitHub
2 19 (59.38%) GitHub Copilot
3 16 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 16 (50.00%) Serverless
4 12 (37.50%) Azure AKS
5 11 (34.38%) PaaS
6 9 (28.13%) Azure AI
6 9 (28.13%) Power Platform
7 7 (21.88%) AWS
7 7 (21.88%) Azure App Service
7 7 (21.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 7 (21.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (21.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (21.88%) OCI
8 3 (9.38%) Google Gemini
8 3 (9.38%) Vertex AI
9 2 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) 3GPP
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
1 2 (6.25%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.25%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.13%) Weaviate
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Data Scientist
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Industrial Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Service Designer
6 1 (3.13%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (90.63%) Model Context Protocol
2 14 (43.75%) PyTorch
2 14 (43.75%) TensorFlow
3 13 (40.63%) LangChain
4 12 (37.50%) RESTful
4 12 (37.50%) Semantic Kernel
5 11 (34.38%) .NET
6 9 (28.13%) LangGraph
7 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (9.38%) Pandas
8 3 (9.38%) scikit-learn
9 2 (6.25%) CrewAI
10 1 (3.13%) Keras
10 1 (3.13%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (40.63%) Algorithms
1 13 (40.63%) Cloud Native
2 11 (34.38%) AI Agents
3 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) AI
2 27 (84.38%) LLM
3 24 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 21 (65.63%) Prompt Engineering
5 18 (56.25%) Machine Learning
6 15 (46.88%) Agile
7 14 (43.75%) Generative AI
8 13 (40.63%) API Design
8 13 (40.63%) Data Privacy
8 13 (40.63%) Deep Learning
9 12 (37.50%) API Management
9 12 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (37.50%) Test Automation
10 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (31.25%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
12 9 (28.13%) Mentoring
13 8 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
13 8 (25.00%) Scrum
14 7 (21.88%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (78.13%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (71.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.25%) PhD
4 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) EU AI Act
2 11 (34.38%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (46.88%) Foundry
3 10 (31.25%) OpenAI
4 3 (9.38%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) NVIDIA
6 1 (3.13%) Databricks