Autonomous Agent Contracts in the UK excluding London

Autonomous Agents
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.021% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £325 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Autonomous Agent 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 4,789 6,115 7,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 28.87% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 3,587 4,845
10th Percentile £220 £213 £235
25th Percentile £363 £379 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 745 391
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.41 £12.95
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +58.44% +4.65%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Autonomous Agent in the UK excluding London

Autonomous Agent
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 Autonomous Agent within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
North West - 3 £325 - 2
North of England - 3 £325 - 2
Autonomous Agent
UK

Autonomous Agent
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 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Bedrock
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 2 (66.67%) Vertex AI
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LangChain
2 1 (33.33%) Gradio
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Memory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Multi-Agent System
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Semantic Search
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Lean Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google