Conversational AI Contracts in the North West

Conversational AI
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.046% 0.083% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.099% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,943 2,023 2,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.64% 84.12% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 1,216 1,765
10th Percentile £282 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £671 £680 £661
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 167 157
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.90
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +13.80% +41.21%
75th Percentile £55.37 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.55
% change year-on-year -41.17% +5.44% +50.28%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Conversational AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Conversational AI in the North West

Conversational AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conversational AI in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Conversational AI in the North West

Conversational AI
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Manchester 0 1 £550 +10.00% 7
Conversational AI
England

Conversational AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Emotional Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) HOOD
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Genesys