Autonomous Agent Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Autonomous Agents
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 8 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	261	194	-
Rank change year-on-year	-67	-	-
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent	6	5	0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England	0.079%	0.11%	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.21%	0.31%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	3	3	0
10^th Percentile	£528	£331	-
25^th Percentile	£541	£359	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£413	-
Median % change year-on-year	+39.39%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£594	£439	-
90^th Percentile	£598	£452	-
England median daily rate	£513	£500	-
% change year-on-year	+2.50%	-	-

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 citing generic IT skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 8 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	2,797	1,629	1,172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England	36.69%	35.89%	29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,645	1,086	640
10^th Percentile	£318	£263	£213
25^th Percentile	£413	£375	£359
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£475	£488
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-2.56%	-2.50%
75^th Percentile	£600	£573	£575
90^th Percentile	£675	£638	£665
England median daily rate	£525	£525	£540
% change year-on-year	-	-2.78%	-1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted	273	76	40
10^th Percentile	£14.00	£15.50	£17.79
25^th Percentile	£18.49	£19.19	£21.05
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£35.25	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+24.71%	+8.46%	+4.84%
75^th Percentile	£64.75	£47.78	£46.18
90^th Percentile	£77.50	£74.01	£78.50
England median hourly rate	£33.99	£28.00	£46.71
% change year-on-year	+21.39%	-40.06%	+4.97%

Autonomous Agent Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Autonomous Agent Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Autonomous Agent.

Autonomous Agent Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Yorkshire	-	5	£588	-	1
North West	-45	1	£538	+30.30%
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Autonomous Agent Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Autonomous Agent also mentioned 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 North of England region citing Autonomous Agent.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	6
2	API Integration	83.3%	5
2	Event-Driven	83.3%	5
2	Full-Stack Development	83.3%	5
2	Human-in-the-Loop	83.3%	5
2	Java	83.3%	5
2	Kafka	83.3%	5
2	LLM	83.3%	5
2	Observability	83.3%	5
2	Performance Optimisation	83.3%	5
2	PostgreSQL	83.3%	5
2	RBAC	83.3%	5
2	Redis	83.3%	5
2	REST	83.3%	5
2	Spring	83.3%	5
2	Spring Boot	83.3%	5
2	Validation	83.3%	5
18	AWS	66.7%	4
18	Azure	66.7%	4
18	CI/CD	66.7%	4
18	Data Protection	66.7%	4
18	DevOps	66.7%	4
18	GCP	66.7%	4
18	GitHub	66.7%	4
18	GitHub Actions	66.7%	4
18	GitLab	66.7%	4
18	Infrastructure as Code	66.7%	4
18	Jenkins	66.7%	4
18	JSON	66.7%	4
18	Kubernetes	66.7%	4

Autonomous Agent Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI Agents	83.3%	5
2	Data Protection Act	66.7%	4
3	Enterprise Software	16.7%	1