Autonomous Agent Job Trends

Autonomous Agents
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Autonomous Agent in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Autonomous Agent over the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Autonomous Agent 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.019% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - -
75th Percentile £100,625 - -
90th Percentile £104,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Autonomous Agent 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,526 19,906 19,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.36% 37.06% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,316 9,362 14,418
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,793 £54,000
% change year-on-year -14.22% +1.47% -1.82%

Autonomous Agent
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Autonomous Agent relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Autonomous Agent job vacancy trend in the UK

Autonomous Agent
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Autonomous Agent.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Autonomous Agent

Autonomous Agent
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Autonomous Agent over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Autonomous Agent in the UK

Autonomous Agent
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Autonomous Agent within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England - 4 £90,000 - 34
Work from Home - 2 £90,000 - 29
London - 2 £85,000 - 8
South East - 1 £90,000 - 12
UK excluding London - 1 £90,000 - 29

Autonomous Agent
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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) LangChain
1 1 (25.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow