IVR Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IVR in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IVR over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs citing IVR 5 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.43% - 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile - - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.66%
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £630 - £425
North West median daily rate £581 £225 £350
% change year-on-year +158.33% -35.71% -15.66%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

IVR falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 422 368 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.10% 33.95% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 200 315
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £360 £360 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £582 £585 £560
90th Percentile £648 £701 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £478 £513
% change year-on-year -5.86% -6.73% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 20 10
10th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £28.69
25th Percentile £19.75 £28.19 £35.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.13
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.64% -28.13%
75th Percentile £55.00 £39.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £61.50 £79.13
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £41.87
% change year-on-year +43.18% -24.16% +19.61%

IVR
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IVR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

IVR job vacancy trend in Manchester

IVR
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IVR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IVR

IVR
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IVR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IVR

IVR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Automate
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) PABX
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Service Design Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Telephony Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 3 (60.00%) BPMN
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Case Management
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 3 (60.00%) KYC
1 3 (60.00%) Logistics
1 3 (60.00%) OCR
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Service Design
1 3 (60.00%) Target Operating Model
1 3 (60.00%) WFM
2 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Genesys
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (60.00%) UiPath
2 1 (20.00%) Avaya
2 1 (20.00%) BT
2 1 (20.00%) Nortel