Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Agentic AI Engineer
UK > England

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 22 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.067% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £705 - -
UK median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 30,253 24,723 35,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 93.04% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,276 15,264 23,666
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,876 738 1,991
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.98 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.36 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in England

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in England

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
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 Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 January 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 - 20 £663 -
South East - 1 £575 -
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (90.91%) AI
2 19 (86.36%) Python
3 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) C#
4 9 (40.91%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 8 (36.36%) Azure AKS
5 8 (36.36%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
5 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
5 8 (36.36%) OpenAI
6 7 (31.82%) LLM
6 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
7 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (27.27%) Bicep
7 6 (27.27%) DevOps
7 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
7 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
7 6 (27.27%) GitHub
7 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 6 (27.27%) SQL
7 6 (27.27%) Terraform
8 5 (22.73%) Azure App Service
8 5 (22.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (22.73%) Azure Functions
8 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 5 (22.73%) Docker
8 5 (22.73%) LangChain
8 5 (22.73%) Microservices

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure AKS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Key Vault
3 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (22.73%) Azure App Service
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (22.73%) Azure Functions
4 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 5 (22.73%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) AWS
5 4 (18.18%) Power Automate
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
6 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
2 2 (9.09%) 3GPP
2 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (9.09%) Intelligent Network
2 2 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) German Language
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) LangChain
1 5 (22.73%) Model Context Protocol
1 5 (22.73%) React
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) .NET Core
2 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (13.64%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) PyTorch
2 3 (13.64%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (13.64%) TensorFlow
3 2 (9.09%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (9.09%) Django
3 2 (9.09%) FastAPI
3 2 (9.09%) Flask
3 2 (9.09%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (13.64%) Low-Code
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) AI
2 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 7 (31.82%) LLM
4 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
6 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) RBAC
7 4 (18.18%) Workflow
8 3 (13.64%) API Management
8 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.64%) Data Science
8 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (13.64%) MLOps
8 3 (13.64%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) Bicep
3 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
1 2 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
1 1 (4.55%) GDPR
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
3 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 8 (36.36%) OpenAI
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Foundry
4 1 (4.55%) UiPath