AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Knutsford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.36% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £590 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Generic Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 132 91 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 46.98% 39.39% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 85 45
10th Percentile £322 £339 £337
25th Percentile £381 £358 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £402 £489
Median % change year-on-year +12.69% -17.79% -13.60%
75th Percentile £544 £492 £575
90th Percentile £621 £537 £635
Cheshire median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £36.26 £49.90 £36.50
% change year-on-year -27.33% +36.71% +7.38%

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft