Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends in South London

Agentic AI Engineer
London > South London

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in South London is £500, 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 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
London median daily rate £663 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 219 227 270
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.33% 96.60% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 151 186
10th Percentile £299 £200 £183
25th Percentile £413 £390 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £627 £763 £673
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 24
10th Percentile £54.44 £37.48 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £42.70 £18.75
Median hourly rate £67.70 £53.80 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.84% +128.94% -46.11%
75th Percentile £76.58 £67.30 £55.54
90th Percentile - £73.96 £83.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -12.59%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Croydon - 2 £500 -
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
London

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

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 London region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) API Management
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) API Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAI