Chat Support Contracts

Chat Support
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Chat Support skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chat Support 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 511 579 709
Rank change year-on-year +68 +130 +141
Contract jobs citing Chat Support 9 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.007% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.008% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £337 £143 £155
25th Percentile £374 £182 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £268 £375
Median % change year-on-year +64.49% -28.67% +120.59%
75th Percentile £448 £357 £488
90th Percentile £449 £398 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £475
% change year-on-year - - +150.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.19
Median hourly rate - - £16.37
75th Percentile - - £16.56
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £16.37

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Chat Support
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chat Support as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chat Support.

Daily rate trend for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chat Support over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chat Support.

Hourly rate trend for Chat Support in the UK

Chat Support
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +62 8 £440 +64.49% 14
UK excluding London - 6 - - 9
North of England - 5 - - 2
Work from Home +44 4 £445 +229.63% 6
North West - 4 - - 2
London +39 3 £440 +64.49% 6
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

Chat Support
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Skype
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Service Desk Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Android Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Android Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Service Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (22.22%) Material Design
1 2 (22.22%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
2 2 (22.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) A/B Testing
3 2 (22.22%) MVVM
3 2 (22.22%) Push Notifications
4 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Journey Map
4 1 (11.11%) Journey Map
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Ticket Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Citrix
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) Genesys
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle