Conversational AI Contracts in the South East

Conversational AI
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 - 217
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.033% - 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% - 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £350 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -30.00% -13.04% -11.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Conversational AI in the South East

Conversational AI
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire - 1 £350 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £350 - 2
Conversational AI
England

Conversational AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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