AI Agents Contracts in the UK excluding London

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,545 6,060 7,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.82% 28.42% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,727 3,559 4,889
10th Percentile £220 £210 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.42%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 767 405
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.19 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +59.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.22 £72.50 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £32.95 £35.50 £22.41
% change year-on-year -7.20% +58.41% -18.51%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AI Agents as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AI Agents in the UK excluding London

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AI Agents in the UK excluding London

AI Agents
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 AI Agents within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. 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
Scotland - 3 £300 - 58
North East - 2 £450 - 14
North of England - 2 £450 - 223
South East - 1 £450 - 346
East of England - 1 - - 142
AI Agents
UK

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
2 2 (28.57%) Flask
2 2 (28.57%) Hugging Face
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) LangChain
2 2 (28.57%) Loki
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Life Science
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) LLM
3 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
4 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
4 3 (42.86%) Use Case
4 3 (42.86%) Workflow
5 2 (28.57%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Distributed Cache
5 2 (28.57%) GitOps
5 2 (28.57%) MLOps
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP