AI Agents Job Trends in the Thames Valley

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 16 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.41% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £120,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 - -
75th Percentile £130,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £125,000 - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,651 1,451 1,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 42.05% 30.13% 36.83%
Number of salaries quoted 679 714 932
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £35,854 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.38% -8.70% +4.35%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing AI Agents as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for AI Agents in the Thames Valley

AI Agents
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Berkshire - 15 - - 11
Oxfordshire - 1 £125,000 -
AI Agents
South East

AI Agents
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 15 (93.75%) Azure AI
2 15 (93.75%) GCP
2 15 (93.75%) Vertex AI
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
General
1 15 (93.75%) Law
1 15 (93.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Product Delivery Manager
1 15 (93.75%) Product Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Senior
2 1 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
1 1 (6.25%) ModSecurity
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) LLM
1 16 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 15 (93.75%) B2B
2 15 (93.75%) B2C
2 15 (93.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 15 (93.75%) Backlog Refinement
2 15 (93.75%) Change Management
2 15 (93.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (93.75%) Data Science
2 15 (93.75%) Enterprise Architecture
2 15 (93.75%) Generative AI
2 15 (93.75%) PLM
2 15 (93.75%) Product Management
2 15 (93.75%) Prompt Engineering
2 15 (93.75%) Roadmaps
2 15 (93.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 15 (93.75%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 15 (93.75%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) Go
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Argo
1 1 (6.25%) Kubeflow
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Foundry
1 15 (93.75%) Google