Chat Support Contracts

Chat Support
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chat Support skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chat Support over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 684 841
Rank change year-on-year +124 +157 -131
Contract jobs citing Chat Support 7 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.018% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.020% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £221 £167 £136
25th Percentile £375 £261 £139
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £161
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +140.31% +29.00%
75th Percentile - £466 £180
90th Percentile £415 £488 £189
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £190
% change year-on-year -15.79% +150.00% +52.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.37 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £16.37 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Chat Support 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 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Chat Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chat Support as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chat Support.

Daily rate trend for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chat Support over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chat Support.

Hourly rate trend for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chat Support within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +90 5 £400 +3.23% 4
Work from Home +117 4 £400 - 3
UK excluding London +38 3 £400 -15.79% 3
South East - 3 £400 - 2
London +83 2 £268 -28.67% 1

Chat Support
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:

Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) ChatGPT
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) French Language
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Spanish Language
3 1 (14.29%) Swedish Language
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Conversational UI
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Intelligent Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) OpenAI
2 2 (28.57%) UiPath
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow