Autonomous Agent Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Autonomous Agents
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. 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	105	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent	5	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield	0.49%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.07%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	£566	-	-
25^th Percentile	£572	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£588	-	-
75^th Percentile	£597	-	-
90^th Percentile	£599	-	-
South Yorkshire median daily rate	£588	-	-

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

	6 months to 8 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	467	327	136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield	45.38%	48.30%	32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted	322	201	85
10^th Percentile	£367	£319	£220
25^th Percentile	£432	£400	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£520	£478	£510
Median % change year-on-year	+8.80%	-6.37%	-2.86%
75^th Percentile	£600	£538	£598
90^th Percentile	£688	£600	£638
South Yorkshire median daily rate	£516	£484	£500
% change year-on-year	+6.65%	-3.25%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	2	3
10^th Percentile	-	-	£17.53
25^th Percentile	-	-	£26.19
Median hourly rate	£13.69	£15.00	£41.25
Median % change year-on-year	-8.73%	-63.64%	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	£41.88
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
South Yorkshire median hourly rate	£20.60	£15.00	£41.25
% change year-on-year	+37.33%	-63.64%	-

Autonomous Agent Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Autonomous Agent Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

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 Sheffield region citing Autonomous Agent.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	100.0%	5
1	API Integration	100.0%	5
1	Event-Driven	100.0%	5
1	Full-Stack Development	100.0%	5
1	Human-in-the-Loop	100.0%	5
1	Java	100.0%	5
1	Kafka	100.0%	5
1	LLM	100.0%	5
1	Observability	100.0%	5
1	Performance Optimisation	100.0%	5
1	PostgreSQL	100.0%	5
1	Redis	100.0%	5
1	REST	100.0%	5
1	Spring	100.0%	5
1	Spring Boot	100.0%	5
1	Validation	100.0%	5
17	AWS	80.0%	4
17	Azure	80.0%	4
17	CI/CD	80.0%	4
17	Data Protection	80.0%	4
17	DevOps	80.0%	4
17	GCP	80.0%	4
17	GitHub	80.0%	4
17	GitHub Actions	80.0%	4
17	GitLab	80.0%	4
17	Infrastructure as Code	80.0%	4
17	Jenkins	80.0%	4
17	JSON	80.0%	4
17	Kubernetes	80.0%	4
17	Kustomize	80.0%	4

Autonomous Agent Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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	80.0%	4
1	Data Protection Act	80.0%	4
3	Enterprise Software	20.0%	1