Conversational AI Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Conversational AI
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Conversational AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 112 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.16% 0.062% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.068% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £350 -
% change year-on-year +35.71% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,477 1,472 1,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.19% 90.92% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 895 1,056
10th Percentile £331 £272 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.31% -1.57%
75th Percentile £610 £589 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 96 86
10th Percentile £13.16 £14.20 £17.25
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.12 £30.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £60.53
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -58.45% +21.06%
75th Percentile £84.25 £42.67 £70.39
90th Percentile £104.00 £78.75 £86.77
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £20.58 £57.35
% change year-on-year +154.80% -64.12% +9.24%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Conversational AI job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Conversational AI
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Conversational AI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Conversational AI

Conversational AI
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 Conversational AI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 September 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 -17 5 £488 +39.29%
Conversational AI
South East

Conversational AI
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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Billing
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) IVR
2 3 (60.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) CRM
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (60.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Chat Support
5 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) Journey Map
5 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Understanding
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce