Hybrid/Remote AI Agents Contract Job Trends

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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 31 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £364 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £750 £550
% change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -21.43%

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 3,462 3,862 6,303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.34% 30.38% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,221 2,515 4,505
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £800 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 90 139
10th Percentile £14.24 £20.18 £19.99
25th Percentile £24.77 £31.26 £25.71
Median hourly rate £38.50 £64.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.08% +22.38% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.55 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AI Agents.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing AI Agents

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AI Agents over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

AI Agents daily rate histogram 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:

Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (19.35%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) Serverless
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.68%) Azure AI
6 3 (9.68%) Dialogflow
6 3 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (9.68%) Vertex AI
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (6.45%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) MQTT
2 1 (3.23%) BGP
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) IPsec
2 1 (3.23%) SMS
2 1 (3.23%) VLAN
2 1 (3.23%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Pinecone
2 2 (6.45%) Redis
2 2 (6.45%) Weaviate
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Jenkins
1 3 (9.68%) SonarQube
1 3 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (6.45%) Git
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Senior
3 7 (22.58%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Backend Developer
5 3 (9.68%) GCP DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Gen AI Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) LangChain
2 5 (16.13%) FastAPI
2 5 (16.13%) pydantic
2 5 (16.13%) React
3 4 (12.90%) AWS CDK
3 4 (12.90%) CrewAI
4 3 (9.68%) Hugging Face
5 2 (6.45%) .NET
5 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.45%) Faiss
5 2 (6.45%) Google JAX
5 2 (6.45%) JAX
5 2 (6.45%) JSON
5 2 (6.45%) Kafka
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Autonomous Agent
2 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) IVR
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 19 (61.29%) Machine Learning
3 18 (58.06%) LLM
4 11 (35.48%) Generative AI
5 9 (29.03%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (22.58%) DevOps
8 6 (19.35%) Conversational UI
8 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
8 6 (19.35%) Deep Learning
8 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
8 6 (19.35%) Natural Language Processing
9 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 5 (16.13%) Prompt Engineering
10 4 (12.90%) API Design
10 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (12.90%) Migration
10 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) TypeScript
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) C
5 2 (6.45%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) MCP
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) KVM
3 1 (3.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Google
2 4 (12.90%) OpenAI
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) AlgoSec
4 1 (3.23%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.23%) Juniper
4 1 (3.23%) NetApp
4 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Workday
4 1 (3.23%) Zoho