Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IVR in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IVR over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 704 818
Rank change year-on-year +156 +114 -177
Contract jobs citing IVR 46 12 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.020% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.060% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 7 28
10th Percentile £313 £449 £299
25th Percentile £350 £481 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £625 £448
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +39.66% -9.36%
75th Percentile £500 - £641
90th Percentile £578 £670 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -28.21% +14.71% -11.23%

All Generic Skills
UK

IVR is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,876 29,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,425 13,672 20,442
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £655
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.39 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

IVR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IVR over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IVR in the UK

IVR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IVR within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +145 40 £375 -40.00% 6
Work from Home +148 24 £500 +2.56% 2
UK excluding London +84 22 £350 -28.21% 3
London +111 13 £525 -16.00% 2
East of England - 13 £350 -
North West - 6 £350 -
North of England - 6 £350 -
West Midlands - 3 £375 - 2
Midlands - 3 £375 - 2

IVR
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 17 (36.96%) Apache
1 17 (36.96%) IIS
1 17 (36.96%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Chatbot
2 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) GCP
2 13 (28.26%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) Azure
4 2 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.78%) H.323
1 16 (34.78%) HTTP
1 16 (34.78%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.52%) VoIP
3 1 (2.17%) Firewall
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.17%) Multicast
3 1 (2.17%) MVNO
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.17%) SMS
3 1 (2.17%) VoLTE
3 1 (2.17%) VoWiFi
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 27 (58.70%) Telecoms
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (26.09%) Legal
4 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Electronics
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Marketing
5 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Consultant
1 13 (28.26%) Genesys Consultant
2 8 (17.39%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Technical Support
3 6 (13.04%) Avaya Specialist
3 6 (13.04%) Support Specialist
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Consultant
5 4 (8.70%) Technical Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Genesys Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Support Specialist
7 2 (4.35%) Avaya Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Telecoms Support Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.26%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Linux
1 17 (36.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) WFM
2 18 (39.13%) Conversational UI
3 15 (32.61%) Change Management
3 15 (32.61%) Proactive Maintenance
4 13 (28.26%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (28.26%) Capacity Management
4 13 (28.26%) Workforce Optimisation
5 12 (26.09%) Roadmaps
6 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
6 11 (23.91%) Configuration Management
6 11 (23.91%) Presales
6 11 (23.91%) Requirements Gathering
7 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
7 10 (21.74%) Quality Management
8 5 (10.87%) CRM
9 4 (8.70%) Agile
9 4 (8.70%) Customer Experience
10 3 (6.52%) Fault Analysis
10 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.52%) Tech Ops
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Ansible
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) Avaya
1 21 (45.65%) Genesys
2 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 17 (36.96%) Red Hat
4 13 (28.26%) Verint
5 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle
6 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.35%) SAP
6 2 (4.35%) UiPath
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco
7 1 (2.17%) F5
7 1 (2.17%) Google