Autonomous Agent Contracts

Autonomous Agents
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in contract job vacancies. 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 533 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.055% - -
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 excluding London median daily rate £325 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,864 13,130 18,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.68% 30.20% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,734 8,341 12,606
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £676
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 919 580
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.25 £60.64
90th Percentile £78.46 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +58.44% +4.65%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Autonomous Agent as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Autonomous Agent in the UK

Autonomous Agent
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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
England - 4 £325 - 35
Work from Home - 3 £325 - 13
UK excluding London - 3 £325 - 4
North of England - 3 £325 - 2
North West - 3 £325 - 2
London - 1 - - 32

Autonomous Agent
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 4 (66.67%) Vertex AI
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Pinecone
2 2 (33.33%) Redis
2 2 (33.33%) Weaviate
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) LangChain
2 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (33.33%) Google JAX
3 2 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 2 (33.33%) JAX
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
3 2 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (16.67%) Gradio
4 1 (16.67%) PySpark
4 1 (16.67%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) AI Agents
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) LLM
2 5 (83.33%) Multi-Agent System
3 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 3 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
5 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
5 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (33.33%) Decision Tree
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Game Theory
5 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
5 2 (33.33%) Memory Management
5 2 (33.33%) Neural Network
5 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (33.33%) Semantic Search
6 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCP
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAI