AI Agents Contracts in England

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £672 - -
90th Percentile £714 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for AI Agents in England

AI Agents
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AI Agents in England.

Daily rate trend for AI Agents in England

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Agents in England

AI Agents
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 AI Agents within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London - 11 £550 - 108
South East - 1 £450 - 27
AI Agents
UK

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (16.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (16.67%) Vertex AI
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) BigCommerce
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Implementation Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Implementation Project Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Author
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LangChain
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
1 2 (16.67%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Celery
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) Next.js
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) Parceljs
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) VML
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 5 (41.67%) User Experience
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) ITSM
4 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 2 (16.67%) Conversational UI
6 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 2 (16.67%) Generative AI
6 2 (16.67%) LLM
7 1 (8.33%) API Integration
7 1 (8.33%) Customer Acquisition
7 1 (8.33%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Sitecore