Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Agentic AI Engineer
England > London

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 348 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 25 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.016% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £416 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £669 £550 -
90th Percentile £688 - -
England median daily rate £538 £500 -
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 17,759 11,870 16,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.49% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,724 8,036 11,854
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £760 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 182 316
10th Percentile £18.48 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +17.27% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £46.49
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Central London - 5 £725 - 1
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (92.00%) AI
2 18 (72.00%) LLM
3 17 (68.00%) Python
4 10 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 9 (36.00%) Azure
6 8 (32.00%) AI Transformation
6 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (32.00%) Use Case
7 7 (28.00%) .NET
7 7 (28.00%) C#
7 7 (28.00%) LangChain
7 7 (28.00%) OpenAI
7 7 (28.00%) Prompt Engineering
7 7 (28.00%) Semantic Search
8 6 (24.00%) Intelligent Automation
8 6 (24.00%) LlamaIndex
8 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (24.00%) Microservices
8 6 (24.00%) Multi-Agent System
8 6 (24.00%) Operations Research
8 6 (24.00%) Pinecone
8 6 (24.00%) Prototyping
8 6 (24.00%) Rapid Prototyping
8 6 (24.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (24.00%) Weaviate
9 5 (20.00%) Generative AI
10 4 (16.00%) Natural Language Processing
10 4 (16.00%) PyCharm
11 3 (12.00%) AWS
11 3 (12.00%) CI/CD

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Vertex AI
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (8.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure App Service
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.00%) Figma
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
1 2 (8.00%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (8.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Pinecone
1 6 (24.00%) Weaviate
2 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) PyCharm
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
2 6 (24.00%) Front Office
2 6 (24.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
1 7 (28.00%) LangChain
2 6 (24.00%) LlamaIndex
3 3 (12.00%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (8.00%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (8.00%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.00%) LangGraph
4 2 (8.00%) PySpark
4 2 (8.00%) React
5 1 (4.00%) Django
5 1 (4.00%) Flask
5 1 (4.00%) Next.js
5 1 (4.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 25 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Genomics
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) AI
2 18 (72.00%) LLM
3 10 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 8 (32.00%) AI Transformation
4 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Use Case
5 7 (28.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 7 (28.00%) Semantic Search
6 6 (24.00%) Intelligent Automation
6 6 (24.00%) Machine Learning
6 6 (24.00%) Microservices
6 6 (24.00%) Multi-Agent System
6 6 (24.00%) Operations Research
6 6 (24.00%) Prototyping
6 6 (24.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 6 (24.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (20.00%) Generative AI
8 4 (16.00%) Natural Language Processing
9 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (12.00%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.00%) PhD
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Istio
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.00%) Foundry
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Teradata