AI Agents Job Trends in Reading

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.25% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £69,250 - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - -
75th Percentile £96,875 - -
90th Percentile £98,750 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £93,750 - -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 335 208 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 27.48% 40.15% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 221 114 362
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,283 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +10.57% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £75,000
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Reading

AI Agents
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI Agents in Reading over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AI Agents in Reading

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (66.67%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (66.67%) Firebase
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Pinecone
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) pgvector
1 1 (33.33%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI