AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.08% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £538 £450 -
% change year-on-year +19.44% - -

All Generic Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 67 28 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 36.02% 30.43% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 16 39
10th Percentile £192 £250 £207
25th Percentile £263 £325 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £556 £591 £588
90th Percentile £638 £681 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £15.72 - £47.75
25th Percentile £20.32 £13.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £14.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.62% -74.41% +129.17%
75th Percentile £27.50 £15.07 £65.00
90th Percentile £27.58 - -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £33.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -28.95% +9.20%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 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
Oxford - 1 £575 - 2
AI Agents
South East

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript