AI Agents Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £631 - -
90th Percentile £665 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

AI Agents
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AI Agents as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AI Agents trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AI Agents
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AI Agents.

AI Agents daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) Weaviate
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Google JAX
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) JAX
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Decision Tree
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Game Theory
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (25.00%) Neural Network
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Reinforcement Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI