Conversational AI Contracts in England

Conversational AI
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Conversational AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Conversational AI over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 537 637
Rank change year-on-year +80 +100 +127
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 10 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.042% 0.014% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.016% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £313 £439 £493
25th Percentile £391 £478 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £575 - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Conversational AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Conversational AI in England

Conversational AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conversational AI in England.

Daily rate trend for Conversational AI in England

Conversational AI
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conversational AI in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Conversational AI in England

Conversational AI
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
London +45 7 £550 +18.92% 55
North of England +18 2 £538 +7.50% 7
North West +11 1 £550 +10.00% 4
South East - 1 £350 - 13
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 2
Conversational AI
UK

Conversational AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (20.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (10.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Figma
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) IBM Watson
4 1 (10.00%) Twilio
4 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Publishing
5 1 (10.00%) Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Conversational AI Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Designer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Telephony Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (20.00%) Keras
2 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (20.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) FHIR
3 1 (10.00%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 9 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (70.00%) LLM
3 7 (70.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (50.00%) User Experience
5 5 (50.00%) UX Design
6 3 (30.00%) Data Science
6 3 (30.00%) Emotional Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) Natural Language Understanding
6 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Project Management
6 3 (30.00%) Sentiment Analysis
6 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (30.00%) UX Research
7 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
7 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Genesys
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) IBM