AI Agents Job Trends in Kent

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.069% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 295 253 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 20.50% 38.80% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 189 201 362
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £34,988 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.89% -14.83% -3.23%
75th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £77,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%

AI Agents
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the Kent region over the 6 months to 18 June 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
Canterbury - 1 £75,000 -
AI Agents
South East

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI