AI Agents Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

AI Agents (Agentic AI)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AI Agents in permanent job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AI Agents over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI Agents 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.19% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.88% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £76,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £67,500 - -

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 340 163 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.51% 39.56% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 266 95 346
10th Percentile £33,125 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,987 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.18% -11.16%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £82,500
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year - +18.28% -2.62%

AI Agents
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

AI Agents job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

AI Agents
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI Agents within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 19 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £67,500 - 48
AI Agents
North East

AI Agents
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LangChain
1 3 (100.00%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python