Conversational AI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Conversational AI
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 386 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.010% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,302 16,497 20,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.23% 82.94% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,022 9,858 13,724
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,239 1,853 1,231
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.79 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £40.00 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -41.25% -1.45% +88.79%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +60.38%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Conversational AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Conversational AI in the UK excluding London

Conversational AI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conversational AI in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Conversational AI in the UK excluding London

Conversational AI
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conversational AI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Conversational AI in the UK excluding London

Conversational AI
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
North of England -4 2 £538 +7.50% 19
East of England - 2 £525 - 3
North West 0 1 £550 +10.00% 15
South East - 1 £350 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 3
Conversational AI
UK

Conversational AI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FHIR
1 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Natural Language Understanding
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) UX Design
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) API Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) HOOD
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (20.00%) Reinforcement Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 1 (20.00%) Sentiment Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Genesys
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI