A2A Protocol Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Agent2Agent Protocol
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring A2A Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing A2A Protocol 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.075% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £601 - -
90th Percentile £669 - -
UK median daily rate £616 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

A2A Protocol falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,810 2,425 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.75% 19.00% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 1,623 2,219
10th Percentile £350 £348 £317
25th Percentile £412 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 70 178
10th Percentile £40.95 £26.48 £20.81
25th Percentile £53.75 £61.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £71.88 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

A2A Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing A2A Protocol relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

A2A Protocol job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

A2A Protocol
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing A2A Protocol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing A2A Protocol

A2A Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing A2A Protocol in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for A2A Protocol in the UK excluding London

A2A Protocol
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing A2A Protocol within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 March 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
East of England - 11 £550 -
North of England - 5 £725 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £725 - 1
A2A Protocol
UK

A2A Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Azure AKS
2 10 (62.50%) GitHub
2 10 (62.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (56.25%) PaaS
4 7 (43.75%) Azure Functions
4 7 (43.75%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Google Gemini
5 2 (12.50%) Vertex AI
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Pinecone
1 1 (6.25%) Weaviate
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) Model Context Protocol
2 11 (68.75%) PyTorch
2 11 (68.75%) TensorFlow
3 10 (62.50%) RESTful
3 10 (62.50%) Semantic Kernel
4 9 (56.25%) .NET
5 5 (31.25%) LangChain
6 2 (12.50%) CrewAI
6 2 (12.50%) LangGraph
6 2 (12.50%) Pandas
6 2 (12.50%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Algorithms
1 11 (68.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) AI Agents
3 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) AI
1 16 (100.00%) LLM
2 13 (81.25%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 12 (75.00%) Machine Learning
4 11 (68.75%) API Design
4 11 (68.75%) Data Privacy
4 11 (68.75%) Prompt Engineering
5 10 (62.50%) Agile
5 10 (62.50%) API Management
5 10 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (62.50%) Deep Learning
5 10 (62.50%) Test Automation
6 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (37.50%) Scrum
9 5 (31.25%) Use Case
10 4 (25.00%) Data Science
10 4 (25.00%) Generative AI
11 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) EU AI Act
2 9 (56.25%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (62.50%) Foundry
3 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
4 2 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (12.50%) NVIDIA