Hybrid/Remote Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Contract Job Trends

Agentic AI Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Agentic AI Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.095% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £710 - -
UK median daily rate £650 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,852 10,113 15,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 93.28% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,378 6,408 10,596
10th Percentile £327 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 183 484
10th Percentile £15.74 £19.06 £14.27
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.28 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.12% -21.52% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.30 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.17
UK median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancies

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 30 January 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) Generative AI
3 6 (60.00%) LLM
4 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (40.00%) LangChain
5 4 (40.00%) Model Context Protocol
5 4 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) AI Transformation
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) LangGraph
6 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 3 (30.00%) Vertex AI
7 2 (20.00%) 3GPP
7 2 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (20.00%) API Development
7 2 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (20.00%) Business Transformation
7 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (20.00%) CrewAI

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (10.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (30.00%) Serverless
1 3 (30.00%) Vertex AI
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Google Gemini
2 2 (20.00%) LangSmith
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) n8n
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
1 2 (20.00%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Pinecone
2 2 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) German Language
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LangChain
1 4 (40.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (30.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (20.00%) A2A Protocol
3 2 (20.00%) CrewAI
4 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
2 6 (60.00%) Generative AI
2 6 (60.00%) LLM
3 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 4 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) AI Transformation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
6 2 (20.00%) API Development
6 2 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (20.00%) Business Transformation
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) MLOps
6 2 (20.00%) Open Source
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Istio
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath