AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Suffolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.41% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
East of England median daily rate £750 - -

All Generic Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 47 37 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 28.31% 46.84% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 23 11
10th Percentile £244 £206 -
25th Percentile £500 £225 £105
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £300 £190
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +57.89% -72.86%
75th Percentile £638 £450 £544
90th Percentile £748 £600 £575
East of England median daily rate £450 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -12.20% +6.77% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.00 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £14.13
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.72%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £23.31
90th Percentile - - £34.68
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £66.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.29% +21.36% -15.71%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Ipswich - 3 £750 - 2
AI Agents
East of England

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Head of AI
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) AI Transformation
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto