AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.25% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £413 -
% change year-on-year +21.21% - -

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 127 48 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 31.28% 27.75% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 26 15
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £443 £410 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +21.69%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £781
90th Percentile £675 - £983
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 8 3
10th Percentile £13.96 £39.81 -
25th Percentile £21.14 £47.12 £11.25
Median hourly rate £32.35 £62.68 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.39% +445.04% -71.67%
75th Percentile £64.09 £73.84 £28.97
90th Percentile - £81.00 £39.29
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £47.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year -6.71% +104.87% -43.34%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Preston - 1 £538 -
AI Agents
North West

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations