Autonomous Agent Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Autonomous Agents
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £439 - -
90th Percentile £452 - -
North West median daily rate £413 - -

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 79 53 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 32.11% 22.55% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 14
10th Percentile £151 £141 £193
25th Percentile £154 £164 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £250 £388
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -35.48% -13.89%
75th Percentile £518 £497 £523
90th Percentile £669 £594 £596
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -8.16% -4.39% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £18.46 £18.80
25th Percentile £15.62 £19.11 £22.63
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.19 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -30.38% +65.15%
75th Percentile £18.54 £21.60 £29.50
90th Percentile £19.89 £22.44 £29.80
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.88% -23.53% +68.68%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Autonomous Agent job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Autonomous Agent
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Liverpool - 4 £413 -
Autonomous Agent
North West

Autonomous Agent
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 4 (100.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Junior
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 4 (100.00%) LangChain
2 2 (50.00%) Faiss
2 2 (50.00%) Gradio
2 2 (50.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (50.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (75.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (100.00%) Multi-Agent System
1 4 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 4 (100.00%) Semantic Search
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Google