AI Agents Job Trends in the North of England

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 278 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 29 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.026% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 0.061% -
Number of salaries quoted 24 2 0
10th Percentile £58,750 - -
25th Percentile £69,063 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £110,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - -
75th Percentile £105,000 - -
90th Percentile £122,200 - -
England median annual salary £92,500 £102,500 -
% change year-on-year -9.76% - -

All Generic Skills
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,694 3,283 5,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.55% 43.28% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,493 1,427 3,934
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,113 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,716 £35,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,400 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in the North of England

AI Agents
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

AI Agents
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Agents in the North of England

AI Agents
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North West +12 22 £80,000 -27.27% 25
Yorkshire - 5 £97,500 - 7
North East - 2 £67,500 - 6
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) SaaS
4 6 (20.69%) GCP
5 5 (17.24%) ChatGPT
6 4 (13.79%) n8n
6 4 (13.79%) Zapier
7 3 (10.34%) GitHub
8 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
9 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.45%) Google Gemini
9 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Neo4j
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) GitLab
1 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.90%) Vite
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Local Government
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Retail
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Marketing
3 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Product Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Designer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Product Designer
6 1 (3.45%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Head of AI
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) LangChain
2 5 (17.24%) LangGraph
3 4 (13.79%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (6.90%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.90%) CrewAI
4 2 (6.90%) Express.js
4 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
4 2 (6.90%) Next.js
4 2 (6.90%) Node.js
4 2 (6.90%) React
5 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (3.45%) NumPy
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Life Science
2 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.79%) Low-Code
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) AI
2 16 (55.17%) LLM
3 11 (37.93%) Machine Learning
4 10 (34.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
5 8 (27.59%) Collaborative Culture
5 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (27.59%) Prompt Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Workflow
7 5 (17.24%) B2B
7 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (13.79%) AIOps
8 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (13.79%) Decision Intelligence
8 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.90%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
1 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) OpenAI
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Foundry
4 1 (3.45%) Google