Conversational UI Contracts

Conversational User Interfaces
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Conversational UI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Conversational UI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 644 733
Rank change year-on-year +223 +89 -111
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 182 51 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.092% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 37 76
10th Percentile £295 £320 £500
25th Percentile £388 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £744
90th Percentile £666 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £431 £585
% change year-on-year -7.25% -26.28% +46.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.37
25th Percentile - £101.75 £16.85
Median hourly rate - £103.50 £18.80
Median % change year-on-year - +450.46% -26.26%
75th Percentile - £105.25 £20.85
90th Percentile - - £21.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.50 £17.11
% change year-on-year - +505.09% -32.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Conversational UI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Conversational UI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Conversational UI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conversational UI.

Daily rate trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conversational UI over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Conversational UI.

Hourly rate trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conversational UI within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +209 162 £481 +1.32% 27
Work from Home +232 151 £473 +8.00% 17
UK excluding London +137 122 £400 -7.25% 12
North of England +84 65 £500 +48.15% 4
London +109 45 £481 -8.33% 11
North West +38 28 £500 +42.86% 2
Midlands +43 27 £190 -55.94% 2
Yorkshire +32 22 - - 2
North East +27 15 - -
East Midlands +21 14 £190 -55.29%
West Midlands +25 13 £338 -43.75% 2
South West +22 12 - - 1
Scotland +49 11 - -
South East +8 4 £400 -20.00% 5
East of England - 3 £475 -

Conversational UI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 174 (95.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.09%) Azure
2 15 (8.24%) AWS
3 12 (6.59%) GCP
4 9 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (4.95%) Twilio
5 6 (3.30%) Azure AI
6 4 (2.20%) Amazon Alexa
6 4 (2.20%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (2.20%) BrowserStack
6 4 (2.20%) Firebase
6 4 (2.20%) SaaS
6 4 (2.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (2.20%) Sauce Labs
7 3 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Stack
7 3 (1.65%) GitHub
8 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.10%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.10%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.10%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.95%) CTI
1 9 (4.95%) VoIP
2 4 (2.20%) MQTT
3 1 (0.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.10%) Power BI
2 1 (0.55%) MySQL
2 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Appium
1 4 (2.20%) Bitbucket
1 4 (2.20%) Cucumber
1 4 (2.20%) Git
1 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.20%) JIRA
1 4 (2.20%) Selenium
2 3 (1.65%) GitLab
General
1 17 (9.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.14%) Finance
3 10 (5.49%) Telecoms
4 9 (4.95%) Retail
5 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (0.55%) Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Danish Language
7 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (0.55%) Local Government
7 1 (0.55%) Marketing
7 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 140 (76.92%) Developer
2 126 (69.23%) Software Developer
3 13 (7.14%) Architect
4 11 (6.04%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 11 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.30%) Consultant
6 4 (2.20%) Analyst
6 4 (2.20%) Business Analyst
6 4 (2.20%) Data Science Leader
6 4 (2.20%) Lead
6 4 (2.20%) Lead Product Owner
6 4 (2.20%) Product Lead
6 4 (2.20%) Product Owner
7 3 (1.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (1.65%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 3 (1.65%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Developer
7 3 (1.65%) Designer
7 3 (1.65%) Genesys Consultant
7 3 (1.65%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (68.13%) HTML
2 11 (6.04%) Web Services
3 9 (4.95%) Middleware
4 4 (2.20%) RESTful
5 3 (1.65%) CSS
5 3 (1.65%) Laravel
5 3 (1.65%) pytest
5 3 (1.65%) WebdriverIO
6 2 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.10%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.55%) Ajax
7 1 (0.55%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.55%) LangChain
7 1 (0.55%) REST
7 1 (0.55%) SOAP
7 1 (0.55%) Vue
7 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.24%) IVR
2 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.55%) CMDB
5 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.55%) IoT
5 1 (0.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Windows
1 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (90.11%) Artificial Intelligence
2 123 (67.58%) Software Engineering
3 121 (66.48%) Code Quality
4 17 (9.34%) Agile
4 17 (9.34%) Computer Science
4 17 (9.34%) Customer Experience
5 15 (8.24%) Analytics
5 15 (8.24%) Machine Learning
6 11 (6.04%) CRM
6 11 (6.04%) DevOps
6 11 (6.04%) WFM
7 10 (5.49%) Data Privacy
7 10 (5.49%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (4.95%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (4.95%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (4.95%) Natural Language Processing
8 9 (4.95%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (4.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (4.40%) Load Balancing
9 8 (4.40%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 129 (70.88%) Python
2 125 (68.68%) JavaScript
3 121 (66.48%) C#
3 121 (66.48%) SQL
4 5 (2.75%) PHP
5 4 (2.20%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.10%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 144 (79.12%) Degree
2 15 (8.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.04%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.49%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.95%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.49%) GDPR
2 8 (4.40%) HIPAA
2 8 (4.40%) PCI DSS
2 8 (4.40%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.75%) QA
4 2 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 121 (66.48%) PayPal
2 15 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.14%) Google
4 12 (6.59%) Genesys
5 10 (5.49%) Salesforce
6 9 (4.95%) Avaya
6 9 (4.95%) Cisco
7 4 (2.20%) Apple
7 4 (2.20%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.20%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.10%) IBM
8 2 (1.10%) UiPath
8 2 (1.10%) Workday
9 1 (0.55%) BMC
9 1 (0.55%) HP
9 1 (0.55%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.55%) NEC
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle
9 1 (0.55%) SAP
9 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow