AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Ipswich. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 1.69% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £750 - -

All Generic Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17 29 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 28.81% 54.72% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile £479 £363 £210
25th Percentile £550 £388 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £250
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +80.00% -62.74%
75th Percentile £750 £648 £475
90th Percentile - £725 £520
Suffolk median daily rate £500 £375 £250
% change year-on-year +33.33% +50.00% -64.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.38
25th Percentile £19.00 - £22.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £29.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +82.81%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £35.94
90th Percentile - - £39.73
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 - £14.13
% change year-on-year - - -11.72%

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of AI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality