AI Agents Job Trends in the North West

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 26 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.41% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.93% - -
Number of salaries quoted 24 0 0
10th Percentile £57,500 - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £100,000 - -
90th Percentile £110,000 - -
England median annual salary £90,000 £105,000 -
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,808 1,560 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.07% 30.87% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 942 787 1,124
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in the North West

AI Agents
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AI Agents

AI Agents
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Agents in the North West

AI Agents
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Manchester - 20 £80,000 - 15
Cheshire - 6 £75,000 - 6
AI Agents
England

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (11.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon Bedrock
3 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (11.54%) Copilot Studio
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
4 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MySQL
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Local Government
3 2 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) AWS Architect
2 6 (23.08%) AWS Solution Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Lead
2 6 (23.08%) Lead Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Business Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) React
3 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) AI
2 11 (42.31%) Machine Learning
3 9 (34.62%) LLM
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Backlog Refinement
5 6 (23.08%) Generative AI
5 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 6 (23.08%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 6 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Workflow
7 4 (15.38%) Commercial Awareness
7 4 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (15.38%) Secure Coding
8 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
2 3 (11.54%) Java
2 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
1 3 (11.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Foundry
3 3 (11.54%) Genesys
3 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle