AI Agents Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.87% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £603 - -
25th Percentile £644 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 - -

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 410 125 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 44.52% 45.96% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 83 95
10th Percentile £363 £210 £327
25th Percentile £438 £280 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £587
90th Percentile £688 £650 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £476 £448
% change year-on-year +5.04% +6.36% -14.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 - £11.04
Median hourly rate £18.01 - £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.18%
75th Percentile £19.01 - £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £14.63
% change year-on-year -45.03% +164.96% +37.58%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI Agents in South Yorkshire

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 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
Sheffield - 8 £725 - 2
AI Agents
Yorkshire

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) Google Gemini
1 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Pinecone
1 1 (12.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) A2A Protocol
1 3 (37.50%) LangChain
2 2 (25.00%) CrewAI
2 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
2 2 (25.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (75.00%) Generative AI
2 6 (75.00%) LLM
3 5 (62.50%) Use Case
4 4 (50.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (25.00%) API Design
5 2 (25.00%) Mathematical Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Value Proposition
6 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
6 1 (12.50%) Data Science
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Multi-Agent System
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Google