Conversational AI Contracts in Reading

Conversational AI
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £350 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Conversational AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI