AI Agents Job Trends in the East of England

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 26 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.35% - 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.35% - 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £58,200 - -
25th Percentile £97,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 - -
75th Percentile £112,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% - -

All Generic Skills
East of England

AI Agents falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,932 1,317 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 25.67% 37.96% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 572 839
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,750 £25,809
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £79,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI Agents relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

AI Agents job vacancy trend in the East of England

AI Agents
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AI Agents.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing AI Agents

AI Agents
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Agents in the East of England

AI Agents
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 16 - - 4
Hertfordshire - 4 £32,000 -
Suffolk - 4 £105,000 - 1
Essex - 2 - - 4
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (53.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) LaTeX
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Power Automate
2 9 (34.62%) Anthropic Claude
3 8 (30.77%) Lucidchart
3 8 (30.77%) Zapier
4 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
5 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (23.08%) PowerApps
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
1 1 (3.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Redis
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Claude Code
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Legal
3 8 (30.77%) Legal Technology
4 6 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
6 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (7.69%) Finance
8 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Network Architect
2 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) Platform Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) SharePoint Administrator
3 3 (11.54%) SharePoint Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Integrity Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Junior
5 1 (3.85%) Product Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
1 2 (7.69%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Low-Code
2 4 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (15.38%) TM Forum
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (42.31%) LLM
3 8 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 8 (30.77%) BPR
3 8 (30.77%) Business Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) Business Process Mapping
3 8 (30.77%) Project Management
3 8 (30.77%) Robotic Process Automation
3 8 (30.77%) Workflow
4 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 6 (23.08%) Information Architecture
5 6 (23.08%) Observability
5 6 (23.08%) Task Automation
6 4 (15.38%) AIOps
6 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
6 4 (15.38%) Digital Twin
6 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 4 (15.38%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) DocuSign
1 8 (30.77%) RedGate
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft