Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Job Trends

Agentic AI Engineer
UK

The median Agentic AI Engineer salary in the UK is £86,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.011% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £66,125 - -
25th Percentile £73,438 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 - -
75th Percentile £98,438 - -
90th Percentile £105,375 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,250 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 57,632 48,152 66,101
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.82% 92.24% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 35,882 24,796 51,733
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the UK

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
UK excluding London - 2 £86,250 -
North of England - 1 £110,000 -
North West - 1 £110,000 -
England - 1 £110,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £62,500 -

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 January 2026, Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) LLM
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Foundry
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) LangChain

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) LangChain
2 1 (14.29%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (14.29%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
2 2 (28.57%) LLM
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Foundry
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) UiPath