AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.30% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £716 - -
25th Percentile £722 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 - -
75th Percentile £751 - -
90th Percentile £754 - -
North West median daily rate £440 - -

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 340 360 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.24% 30.61% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 185 338
10th Percentile £312 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £656 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 17
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £16.37
25th Percentile £30.59 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.69% -13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £60.94 £60.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £94.40 £75.75
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £40.80
% change year-on-year +10.24% -22.17% +87.30%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Manchester

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) OCI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Business Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle