Autonomous Agent Contract Job Trends in London

Autonomous Agents
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent over the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.094% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - -
75th Percentile £658 - -
90th Percentile £725 - -
England median daily rate £525 - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,412 5,302 6,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.08% 33.97% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,449 3,387 4,953
10th Percentile £335 £325 £325
25th Percentile £438 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% -0.42%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 62 103
10th Percentile £17.33 £17.28 £18.11
25th Percentile £20.00 £23.98 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% +15.83% +16.69%
75th Percentile £45.95 £56.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £67.42
England median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.45% +3.78% +50.85%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Autonomous Agent relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Autonomous Agent job vacancy trend in London

Autonomous Agent
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Autonomous Agent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Autonomous Agent

Autonomous Agent
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Autonomous Agent in London over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Autonomous Agent in London

Autonomous Agent
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 Autonomous Agent within the London region over the 6 months to 17 November 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
Central London - 1 - - 9
East London - 1 - -
Autonomous Agent
England

Autonomous Agent
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (15.38%) Google Gemini
4 1 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 3 (23.08%) SonarQube
1 3 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) GCP DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) LangChain
1 3 (23.08%) LangGraph
1 3 (23.08%) PyTorch
2 2 (15.38%) CrewAI
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) Ray
2 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) AI Agents
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (46.15%) LLM
3 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
3 5 (38.46%) Multi-Agent System
4 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Digital Banking
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Management
5 3 (23.08%) Logistics
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
6 2 (15.38%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) MCP
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI