Conversational AI Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Conversational AI
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Conversational AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 91 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.045% 0.23% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £470
% change year-on-year -9.09% +17.02% -21.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Conversational AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,746 1,140 1,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.33% 89.13% 82.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 496 467
10th Percentile £190 £200 £191
25th Percentile £389 £374 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £593 £576 £550
90th Percentile £675 £678 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 297 406
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.82 £14.70
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.01% -24.20% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.60 £78.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Conversational AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Conversational AI job vacancy trend in the East of England

Conversational AI
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conversational AI within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
Suffolk - 1 £367 - 3
Conversational AI
England

Conversational AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) WebRTC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle