Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South East

Agentic AI Engineer
England > South East

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in the South East is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.022% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 4,118 2,995 5,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.97% 92.93% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,666 1,854 3,158
10th Percentile £255 £233 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 105 373
10th Percentile £13.88 £18.58 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.93 £24.18 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -10.53% +7.34%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.54
90th Percentile £83.25 £69.75 £76.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £575 -
Thames Valley - 1 £575 -
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
England

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer contract job roles required 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 South East region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript