Autonomous Agent Contracts in England

Autonomous Agents
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 - -
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile £514 - -
UK median daily rate £426 - -

All Generic Skills
England

Autonomous Agent 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 9,669 10,340 14,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 30.86% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,107 6,725 10,365
10th Percentile £306 £302 £310
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 552 390
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.35 £20.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £40.46
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% +17.41% +55.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £65.59
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.27
UK median hourly rate £29.42 £44.74 £36.88
% change year-on-year -34.25% +21.33% +39.15%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Autonomous Agent as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Autonomous Agent in England

Autonomous Agent
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Autonomous Agent in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Autonomous Agent in England

Autonomous Agent
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 Autonomous Agent within the England region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
North West - 5 £413 -
North of England - 5 £413 -
London - 3 £525 - 13
Autonomous Agent
UK

Autonomous Agent
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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Google Gemini
2 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) LangChain
2 4 (50.00%) CrewAI
3 3 (37.50%) LangGraph
4 2 (25.00%) Faiss
4 2 (25.00%) Gradio
4 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (25.00%) Streamlit
5 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (12.50%) PySpark
5 1 (12.50%) Ray
5 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) AI Agents
2 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) LLM
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
2 5 (62.50%) Multi-Agent System
3 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 4 (50.00%) Memory Management
3 4 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (50.00%) Semantic Search
4 3 (37.50%) API Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Digital Banking
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (12.50%) Lean Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Measurement
6 1 (12.50%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAI