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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 665 687
Rank change year-on-year +341 +22 -94
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 294 54 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.090% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 117
10th Percentile £321 £306 £500
25th Percentile £403 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £700
90th Percentile £638 £793 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +22.09%
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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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
Work from Home +333 270 £500 +14.29% 20
England +320 263 £500 +5.26% 28
UK excluding London +243 230 £500 +14.29% 9
North of England +136 125 £500 +17.65% 4
North West +65 52 £500 +42.86% 1
Midlands +68 51 £314 -26.18% 1
London +132 49 £500 -13.04% 15
Yorkshire +59 46 - - 2
North East - 27 - - 1
West Midlands - 26 £314 - 1
South West +46 25 £800 +88.24% 3
East Midlands +38 25 - -
Scotland +54 23 - -
East of England +22 6 £500 - 1
South East +15 1 £800 +60.00% 1

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 (1.36%) Confluence
1 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 285 (96.94%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (5.10%) AWS
2 14 (4.76%) GCP
3 9 (3.06%) Azure
4 4 (1.36%) Amazon Alexa
4 4 (1.36%) BrowserStack
4 4 (1.36%) Firebase
4 4 (1.36%) Sauce Labs
5 3 (1.02%) GitHub
5 3 (1.02%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.68%) IBM Watson
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.68%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.68%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.34%) Figma
7 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Einstein
7 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) MQTT
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) LAN
3 1 (0.34%) MPLS
3 1 (0.34%) Multicast
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.02%) Power BI
2 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Appium
1 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
1 4 (1.36%) Cucumber
1 4 (1.36%) Git
1 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.36%) JIRA
1 4 (1.36%) Selenium
2 3 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 12 (4.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (3.74%) Telecoms
3 5 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (1.36%) Finance
5 3 (1.02%) Banking
6 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.34%) Danish Language
7 1 (0.34%) Electronics
7 1 (0.34%) Legal
7 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.34%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 253 (86.05%) Developer
2 243 (82.65%) Software Developer
3 16 (5.44%) Consultant
4 15 (5.10%) Genesys Consultant
5 8 (2.72%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (1.70%) Architect
6 5 (1.70%) Lead
7 4 (1.36%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (1.36%) Cloud Consultant
7 4 (1.36%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (1.36%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (1.36%) Product Lead
7 4 (1.36%) Product Owner
8 3 (1.02%) Analyst
8 3 (1.02%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.02%) Business Analyst
8 3 (1.02%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.02%) QA Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Genesys Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (42.18%) HTML
2 14 (4.76%) RESTful
3 3 (1.02%) CSS
3 3 (1.02%) Laravel
3 3 (1.02%) pytest
3 3 (1.02%) SOAP
3 3 (1.02%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (1.02%) XML
4 2 (0.68%) .NET
4 2 (0.68%) Web Services
5 1 (0.34%) Ajax
5 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.34%) LangChain
5 1 (0.34%) LDAP
5 1 (0.34%) Node.js
5 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.12%) IVR
2 5 (1.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.34%) CMDB
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.34%) IoT
4 1 (0.34%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Windows
1 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (93.20%) Artificial Intelligence
2 241 (81.97%) Code Quality
3 124 (42.18%) Software Engineering
4 17 (5.78%) Computer Science
5 15 (5.10%) Roadmaps
6 14 (4.76%) CI/CD
7 12 (4.08%) Configuration Management
7 12 (4.08%) Machine Learning
7 12 (4.08%) Requirements Gathering
7 12 (4.08%) WFM
8 11 (3.74%) Presales
9 10 (3.40%) Quality Management
10 8 (2.72%) Customer Experience
11 7 (2.38%) Agile
12 6 (2.04%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (1.70%) Data Science
13 5 (1.70%) Natural Language Processing
14 4 (1.36%) Analytics
14 4 (1.36%) DevOps
14 4 (1.36%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 129 (43.88%) Python
2 125 (42.52%) JavaScript
3 124 (42.18%) SQL
4 123 (41.84%) C#
5 4 (1.36%) PHP
5 4 (1.36%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 263 (89.46%) Degree
2 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.70%) QA
2 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 241 (81.97%) PayPal
2 17 (5.78%) Genesys
3 8 (2.72%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.04%) Avaya
5 5 (1.70%) Google
5 5 (1.70%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.36%) Apple
6 4 (1.36%) Perfecto Mobile
6 4 (1.36%) UiPath
7 2 (0.68%) IBM
7 2 (0.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) BMC
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco
8 1 (0.34%) F5
8 1 (0.34%) HP
8 1 (0.34%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.34%) Workday