Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Agentic AI Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Agentic AI Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 24,721 13,316 19,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 90.98% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,139 8,275 11,701
10th Percentile £303 £220 £213
25th Percentile £406 £363 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £595
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,838 1,081 2,384
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +0.50%
75th Percentile £67.75 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -12.79%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
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 Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
North West - 3 £500 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 3 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 3 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 3 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) OpenAI