Hybrid/Remote Autonomous Agent Contract Job Trends

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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Autonomous Agent 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.080% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £631 - -
25th Percentile £639 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - -
75th Percentile £727 - -
90th Percentile £737 - -
UK median daily rate £525 - -

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 3,403 3,410 4,837
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.15% 31.16% 29.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,131 2,186 3,344
10th Percentile £331 £325 £325
25th Percentile £420 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £800 £760
UK median daily rate £501 £535 £545
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.83% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 51 123
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £17.33
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.34 £21.63
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year +21.23% -11.12% -33.03%
75th Percentile £66.19 £64.63 £61.93
90th Percentile £71.73 £75.00 £70.06
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £34.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.71% -8.67% +50.00%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Autonomous Agent and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Autonomous Agent job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Autonomous Agent
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Autonomous Agent.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Autonomous Agent

Autonomous Agent
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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (25.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (12.50%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Google Gemini
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) GCP DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LangChain
2 1 (12.50%) CrewAI
2 1 (12.50%) LangGraph
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) Ray
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) LLM
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Digital Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Logistics
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Multi-Agent System
4 2 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (12.50%) Reinforcement Learning
5 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft