Autonomous Agent Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Autonomous Agents
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent 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 303 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Autonomous Agent 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%

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