AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Oxford

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Oxford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 2.35% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £628 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Generic Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27 27 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 31.76% 52.94% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 14
10th Percentile £345 £318 £359
25th Percentile £413 £360 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +6.56%
75th Percentile £534 £688 £520
90th Percentile £628 £700 £569
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -2.44% +20.59% -7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £17.64 - £35.60
25th Percentile £20.67 £13.08 -
Median hourly rate £26.44 £14.08 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.85% -78.35% +259.51%
75th Percentile £37.96 £15.07 -
90th Percentile £44.43 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £47.50 £14.08 £48.75
% change year-on-year +237.48% -71.13% +169.63%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Oxford

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Process Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Swim Lanes
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft