AI Agents Contracts in the North East

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.31% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 106 91 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 32.72% 26.76% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 52 80
10th Percentile £325 £164 £204
25th Percentile £400 £314 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £475 £594
Median % change year-on-year +12.42% -20.00% +20.25%
75th Percentile £625 £559 £705
90th Percentile £670 £698 £781
England median daily rate £549 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -0.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile £27.06 £11.44 -
25th Percentile £39.35 £15.05 -
Median hourly rate £49.09 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.05% - -
75th Percentile £53.40 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £55.91 £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.43% +42.83% -15.91%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) HOOD
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft