AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.70% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £715 - -
25th Percentile £716 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £717 - -
75th Percentile £718 - -
90th Percentile £719 - -
East London median daily rate £719 - -

All Generic Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24 11 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 44.44% 19.30% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 56
10th Percentile £392 - £478
25th Percentile £450 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £585 £602
Median % change year-on-year - -2.82% +20.40%
75th Percentile £678 £634 £660
90th Percentile £916 £638 £770
East London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +9.00%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 28 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
Canary Wharf - 2 £717 -
AI Agents
East London

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft