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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 633 704
Rank change year-on-year +297 +71 -78
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 238 54 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.095% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 93
10th Percentile £325 £309 £500
25th Percentile £413 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £615
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -22.76% +23.00%
75th Percentile £630 £584 £713
90th Percentile £700 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +23.53%
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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

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 18 May 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 18 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 +266 210 £500 +5.26% 42
Work from Home +275 208 £500 +14.29% 24
UK excluding London +193 171 £500 +14.29% 17
North of England +117 95 £500 +17.65% 10
London +129 50 £494 -8.14% 23
North West +58 40 £500 +42.86% 4
Midlands +56 38 £264 -37.94%
Yorkshire +42 34 - - 2
North East - 21 - - 4
East Midlands +28 19 £190 -55.29%
South West +25 19 £800 +88.24% 2
West Midlands - 19 £338 -
Scotland +56 17 - -
East of England - 2 £500 - 2
South East +23 1 £800 +60.00% 4

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 (1.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 229 (96.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (8.82%) Azure
2 15 (6.30%) AWS
3 14 (5.88%) GCP
4 9 (3.78%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (3.78%) Twilio
5 4 (1.68%) Amazon Alexa
5 4 (1.68%) BrowserStack
5 4 (1.68%) Firebase
5 4 (1.68%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (1.26%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.26%) GitHub
6 3 (1.26%) SaaS
6 3 (1.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.84%) IBM Watson
7 2 (0.84%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.84%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Einstein
7 2 (0.84%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.78%) CTI
1 9 (3.78%) VoIP
2 4 (1.68%) MQTT
3 2 (0.84%) Firewall
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) LAN
4 1 (0.42%) MPLS
4 1 (0.42%) Multicast
4 1 (0.42%) Network Security
4 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.84%) Power BI
2 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Appium
1 4 (1.68%) Bitbucket
1 4 (1.68%) Cucumber
1 4 (1.68%) Git
1 4 (1.68%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.68%) JIRA
1 4 (1.68%) Selenium
2 3 (1.26%) GitLab
General
1 13 (5.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (4.62%) Telecoms
3 10 (4.20%) Finance
4 9 (3.78%) Retail
5 5 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.84%) Banking
6 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.84%) Legal
7 1 (0.42%) Danish Language
7 1 (0.42%) Marketing
7 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 196 (82.35%) Developer
2 183 (76.89%) Software Developer
3 14 (5.88%) Architect
4 11 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.36%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (2.52%) Consultant
7 4 (1.68%) Analyst
7 4 (1.68%) Business Analyst
7 4 (1.68%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (1.68%) Genesys Consultant
7 4 (1.68%) Lead
7 4 (1.68%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (1.68%) Product Lead
7 4 (1.68%) Product Owner
8 3 (1.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (1.26%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.26%) Azure Developer
8 3 (1.26%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.26%) QA Engineer
9 2 (0.84%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (52.10%) HTML
2 11 (4.62%) Web Services
3 9 (3.78%) Middleware
4 5 (2.10%) RESTful
5 3 (1.26%) CSS
5 3 (1.26%) Laravel
5 3 (1.26%) pytest
5 3 (1.26%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (0.42%) Ajax
6 1 (0.42%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.42%) LangChain
6 1 (0.42%) LDAP
6 1 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.42%) Node.js
6 1 (0.42%) REST
6 1 (0.42%) SOAP
6 1 (0.42%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.14%) IVR
2 8 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.42%) CMDB
5 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.42%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.42%) IoT
5 1 (0.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Windows
1 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (93.28%) Artificial Intelligence
2 181 (76.05%) Code Quality
3 124 (52.10%) Software Engineering
4 18 (7.56%) Computer Science
5 17 (7.14%) Customer Experience
6 15 (6.30%) Agile
6 15 (6.30%) Analytics
7 13 (5.46%) DevOps
8 12 (5.04%) Machine Learning
8 12 (5.04%) WFM
9 11 (4.62%) CRM
10 10 (4.20%) Data Privacy
11 9 (3.78%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (3.78%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (3.78%) Load Balancing
11 9 (3.78%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (3.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (3.36%) Performance Testing
12 8 (3.36%) Roadmaps
13 7 (2.94%) Conversational AI
Programming Languages
1 130 (54.62%) Python
2 125 (52.52%) JavaScript
3 121 (50.84%) C#
3 121 (50.84%) SQL
4 5 (2.10%) PHP
5 4 (1.68%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 204 (85.71%) Degree
2 15 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.20%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.20%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.78%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.20%) GDPR
2 8 (3.36%) HIPAA
2 8 (3.36%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.36%) SOC 2
3 5 (2.10%) QA
4 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 181 (76.05%) PayPal
2 17 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.88%) Genesys
3 14 (5.88%) Google
4 10 (4.20%) Avaya
4 10 (4.20%) Cisco
5 9 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.68%) Apple
6 4 (1.68%) Perfecto Mobile
7 2 (0.84%) IBM
7 2 (0.84%) UiPath
7 2 (0.84%) Workday
8 1 (0.42%) BMC
8 1 (0.42%) F5
8 1 (0.42%) HP
8 1 (0.42%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow