AI Agents Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in North Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 0.65% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Generic Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 39 22 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 25.32% 30.99% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 19
10th Percentile £192 £168 £286
25th Percentile £363 £263 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +89.72%
75th Percentile £663 £594 £850
90th Percentile £805 £600 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £56.50 £18.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +205.24% +5.77% -20.45%
75th Percentile £57.25 £19.76 £18.75
90th Percentile - £20.50 £19.55
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.00 £24.25 £14.63
% change year-on-year +7.22% +65.81% +37.58%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
York - 1 £550 - 1
AI Agents
Yorkshire

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Team
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA