Chat Support Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Chat Support
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Chat Support skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chat Support 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.033% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
South East median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Chat Support 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,442 1,393 2,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.59% 92.87% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 856 1,261
10th Percentile £302 £290 £213
25th Percentile £402 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 57 167
10th Percentile £16.35 - £14.17
25th Percentile £28.83 £14.20 £19.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.73% -30.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.25 £78.31 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year +99.06% -41.83% -5.00%

Chat Support
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chat Support relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Chat Support job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Chat Support
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chat Support.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chat Support

Chat Support
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chat Support.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chat Support

Chat Support
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chat Support within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. 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 £475 - 1
Chat Support
South East

Chat Support
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Speech Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Analytics
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA