Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer Contract Job Trends

Agentic AI Developer
UK

The median Agentic AI Developer daily rate in the UK 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 652 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 48,533 29,683 40,331
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,422 18,950 25,979
10th Percentile £325 £288 £286
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,255 1,354 2,780
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.87 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.10 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +0.50%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England - 5 £500 - 2
Work from Home - 3 £500 - 2
UK excluding London - 3 £500 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
North West - 3 £500 - 1
London - 2 - - 1

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

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 featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Copilot Studio
3 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (60.00%) Google
3 3 (60.00%) Google Gemini
3 3 (60.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 3 (60.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (40.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (20.00%) Claude Code
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Developer Skill Set
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 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Copilot Studio
1 3 (60.00%) Google Gemini
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Claude Code
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (60.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) OpenAI