Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends

Agentic AI Engineer
UK

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate in the UK is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
3 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 566 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 27 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £692 - -
90th Percentile £715 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - -

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 35,429 28,687 42,007
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.93% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,343 17,493 27,773
10th Percentile £300 £296 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £493
% change year-on-year -0.52% -3.14% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,119 845 2,293
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.70
Median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.04% +1.43%
75th Percentile £62.05 £62.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £71.60 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £36.05
% change year-on-year -13.41% -11.89% +15.01%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Top 5 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 3 February 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 - 23 £638 - 10
London - 20 £663 - 5
Work from Home - 10 £675 - 5
South East - 2 £575 - 4
UK excluding London - 2 £575 - 7

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 February 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (92.59%) AI
2 24 (88.89%) Python
3 12 (44.44%) Azure
4 11 (40.74%) LLM
4 11 (40.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
5 10 (37.04%) Machine Learning
6 9 (33.33%) C#
6 9 (33.33%) Generative AI
6 9 (33.33%) OpenAI
7 8 (29.63%) AWS
7 8 (29.63%) Azure AKS
7 8 (29.63%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
7 8 (29.63%) LangChain
7 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
7 8 (29.63%) Serverless
7 8 (29.63%) Terraform
8 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (22.22%) Bicep
8 6 (22.22%) DevOps
8 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
8 6 (22.22%) GitHub
8 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 6 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
8 6 (22.22%) Prototyping
8 6 (22.22%) SQL
8 6 (22.22%) Workflow
9 5 (18.52%) Agile

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure AKS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure Key Vault
2 8 (29.63%) Serverless
3 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 6 (22.22%) GitHub
3 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (18.52%) Azure App Service
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Functions
4 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.81%) Azure AI
5 4 (14.81%) Azure Machine Learning
5 4 (14.81%) Power Automate
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) 3GPP
2 2 (7.41%) HTTP
2 2 (7.41%) Intelligent Network
2 2 (7.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Pinecone
2 2 (7.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) German Language
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) LangChain
2 5 (18.52%) Model Context Protocol
2 5 (18.52%) React
3 4 (14.81%) LangGraph
4 3 (11.11%) .NET
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.11%) FastAPI
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (11.11%) Node.js
4 3 (11.11%) PyTorch
4 3 (11.11%) Semantic Kernel
4 3 (11.11%) TensorFlow
5 2 (7.41%) A2A Protocol
5 2 (7.41%) CrewAI
5 2 (7.41%) Django
5 2 (7.41%) Flask
5 2 (7.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) AI
2 11 (40.74%) LLM
2 11 (40.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 10 (37.04%) Machine Learning
4 9 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 6 (22.22%) DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Prototyping
5 6 (22.22%) Workflow
6 5 (18.52%) Agile
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 5 (18.52%) Microservices
6 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (14.81%) MLOps
7 4 (14.81%) RBAC
7 4 (14.81%) Use Case
8 3 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 24 (88.89%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (22.22%) Bicep
3 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
1 2 (7.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) EU AI Act
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Istio
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Databricks
4 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.41%) Foundry
4 2 (7.41%) Google
5 1 (3.70%) UiPath
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