AI Agents Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.30% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £588 - -

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 404 170 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 37.55% 32.95% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 106 134
10th Percentile £297 £263 £239
25th Percentile £400 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £569
90th Percentile £635 £713 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +4.74% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 34
10th Percentile - £28.34 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.47 £12.15
Median hourly rate £16.25 £41.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.37% +203.70% -37.21%
75th Percentile £20.40 £96.64 £15.19
90th Percentile £22.00 £97.79 £16.61
Yorkshire median hourly rate £54.50 £36.91 £14.63
% change year-on-year +47.68% +152.34% +37.58%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

AI Agents
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AI Agents.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing AI Agents

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Leeds - 13 £550 - 8
Bradford - 1 - -
AI Agents
Yorkshire

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (42.86%) GCP
2 3 (21.43%) Figma
2 3 (21.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (21.43%) Vertex AI
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
4 1 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Advertising
2 1 (7.14%) Polish Language
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Product Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Designer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Product Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Transformation Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
2 3 (21.43%) Quarkus
3 2 (14.29%) LangGraph
3 2 (14.29%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Taxonomies
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) AI
2 7 (50.00%) LLM
3 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
5 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (21.43%) B2B
5 3 (21.43%) B2C
5 3 (21.43%) CRM
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
5 3 (21.43%) Usability Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Foundry
1 3 (21.43%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow