A2A Protocol Contract Job Trends

Agent2Agent Protocol
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring A2A Protocol skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing A2A Protocol 30 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,621 7,054 9,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.43% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,738 4,472 6,586
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £765 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £49.06 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

A2A Protocol
Job Vacancy Trend

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

A2A Protocol job vacancy trend in the UK

A2A Protocol
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

A2A Protocol
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing A2A Protocol over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for A2A Protocol in the UK

A2A Protocol
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 January 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
England - 29 £608 - 1
UK excluding London - 15 £550 -
London - 14 £675 -
East of England - 11 £550 -
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
Work from Home - 3 £675 -
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 -

A2A Protocol
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 23 (76.67%) Azure
2 18 (60.00%) GitHub
2 18 (60.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 15 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 15 (50.00%) Serverless
4 12 (40.00%) Azure AKS
5 11 (36.67%) PaaS
6 8 (26.67%) Azure AI
6 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
7 7 (23.33%) AWS
8 6 (20.00%) Azure App Service
8 6 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 6 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (20.00%) OCI
9 3 (10.00%) Google Gemini
10 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
10 2 (6.67%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) 3GPP
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
1 2 (6.67%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.33%) Pinecone
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Gen AI Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Data Science Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Service Designer
6 1 (3.33%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 14 (46.67%) PyTorch
2 14 (46.67%) TensorFlow
3 13 (43.33%) Semantic Kernel
4 12 (40.00%) RESTful
5 11 (36.67%) .NET
5 11 (36.67%) LangChain
6 9 (30.00%) LangGraph
7 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (10.00%) CrewAI
8 3 (10.00%) Pandas
8 3 (10.00%) scikit-learn
9 1 (3.33%) Keras
9 1 (3.33%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (46.67%) Cloud Native
2 13 (43.33%) Algorithms
3 10 (33.33%) AI Agents
4 3 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.33%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) AI
2 25 (83.33%) LLM
3 22 (73.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 20 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
5 18 (60.00%) Machine Learning
6 15 (50.00%) Agile
7 13 (43.33%) API Design
7 13 (43.33%) Data Privacy
7 13 (43.33%) Deep Learning
8 12 (40.00%) API Management
8 12 (40.00%) Test Automation
9 11 (36.67%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (33.33%) Generative AI
10 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
10 10 (33.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (26.67%) Data Science
11 8 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (26.67%) Scrum
12 7 (23.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) C#
2 2 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 7 (23.33%) Degree
3 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) EU AI Act
2 11 (36.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (50.00%) Foundry
3 8 (26.67%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.67%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks