AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Wales

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.23% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £538 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -28.33% +36.36% -21.43%

All Generic Skills
Wales

AI Agents 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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 139 151 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 31.81% 32.97% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 93 122
10th Percentile £170 £134 £166
25th Percentile £226 £178 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 £335 £340
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -1.47% -24.44%
75th Percentile £438 £550 £569
90th Percentile £530 £698 £674
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 9
10th Percentile £13.08 £20.07 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -36.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £27.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £32.63 £45.52 £55.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
South Wales - 1 £750 - 1
AI Agents
UK

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft