AI Agents Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AI Agents 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.62% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £738 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 788 320 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.52% 36.20% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 205 289
10th Percentile £322 £209 £273
25th Percentile £425 £343 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £563
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 37
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £11.52
25th Percentile £15.55 £32.67 £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +164.96% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £42.25 £21.97
90th Percentile £64.45 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -12.16% +17.46% +40.00%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

AI Agents
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AI Agents in Yorkshire

AI Agents
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire - 8 £725 - 2
West Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 2
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Figma
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Google Gemini
3 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Pinecone
1 1 (7.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 3 (23.08%) Designer
1 3 (23.08%) Product Designer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Designer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior Product Designer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) A2A Protocol
1 3 (23.08%) LangChain
2 2 (15.38%) CrewAI
2 2 (15.38%) LangGraph
2 2 (15.38%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (23.08%) Taxonomies
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) AI
2 8 (61.54%) LLM
3 6 (46.15%) Generative AI
4 5 (38.46%) Use Case
4 5 (38.46%) User Experience
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
5 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
5 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
6 3 (23.08%) Focus Group
6 3 (23.08%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
6 3 (23.08%) Ideation Sessions
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (23.08%) Product Vision
6 3 (23.08%) User Research
6 3 (23.08%) UX Research
6 3 (23.08%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) NVIDIA
1 2 (15.38%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) Foundry
2 1 (7.69%) Google