Conversational UI Contracts

Conversational User Interfaces
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Conversational UI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Conversational UI over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 657 699
Rank change year-on-year +340 +42 -105
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 293 50 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.083% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.092% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 119
10th Percentile £321 £305 £500
25th Percentile £403 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £675
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -29.63% +35.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £713
90th Percentile £638 £645 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £431 £525
% change year-on-year +15.94% -17.86% +22.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.37
25th Percentile - - £16.85
Median hourly rate - - £18.80
75th Percentile - - £20.85
90th Percentile - - £21.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.11
% change year-on-year - - -32.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Conversational UI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Conversational UI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Conversational UI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conversational UI.

Daily rate trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conversational UI over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Conversational UI.

Hourly rate trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conversational UI within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +322 269 £500 +14.29% 6
England +314 262 £500 +5.26% 17
UK excluding London +239 231 £500 +15.94% 4
North of England +135 125 £500 +17.65% 2
North West +66 52 £500 +42.86% 1
Midlands +82 51 £314 -26.18% 2
London +130 47 £500 -13.04% 12
Yorkshire +60 46 - - 1
North East - 27 - -
West Midlands - 26 £314 - 1
South West +45 25 £800 +88.24%
East Midlands +39 25 - - 1
Scotland +56 23 - -
East of England +22 7 £500 -
South East +12 1 £800 +66.67%

Conversational UI
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 (1.37%) Confluence
1 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 284 (96.93%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.46%) AWS
2 15 (5.12%) GCP
3 9 (3.07%) Azure
4 4 (1.37%) Amazon Alexa
4 4 (1.37%) BrowserStack
4 4 (1.37%) Firebase
4 4 (1.37%) Sauce Labs
5 3 (1.02%) GitHub
5 3 (1.02%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.68%) IBM Watson
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.68%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.68%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.34%) Figma
7 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) MQTT
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) LAN
3 1 (0.34%) MPLS
3 1 (0.34%) Multicast
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
3 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.02%) Power BI
2 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Appium
1 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
1 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
1 4 (1.37%) Git
1 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.37%) JIRA
1 4 (1.37%) Selenium
2 3 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 12 (4.10%) Social Skills
1 12 (4.10%) Telecoms
2 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (1.37%) Finance
4 3 (1.02%) Banking
5 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (0.68%) Marketing
6 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.34%) Danish Language
6 1 (0.34%) Electronics
6 1 (0.34%) Legal
6 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.34%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 253 (86.35%) Developer
2 243 (82.94%) Software Developer
3 17 (5.80%) Consultant
4 16 (5.46%) Genesys Consultant
5 9 (3.07%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (1.71%) Lead
7 4 (1.37%) Architect
7 4 (1.37%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (1.37%) Cloud Consultant
7 4 (1.37%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (1.37%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (1.37%) Product Lead
7 4 (1.37%) Product Owner
8 3 (1.02%) Analyst
8 3 (1.02%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.02%) Business Analyst
8 3 (1.02%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (1.02%) QA Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (42.32%) HTML
2 15 (5.12%) RESTful
3 3 (1.02%) CSS
3 3 (1.02%) Laravel
3 3 (1.02%) pytest
3 3 (1.02%) SOAP
3 3 (1.02%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (1.02%) XML
4 2 (0.68%) .NET
4 2 (0.68%) Web Services
5 1 (0.34%) Ajax
5 1 (0.34%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.34%) LangChain
5 1 (0.34%) LDAP
5 1 (0.34%) Node.js
5 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.48%) IVR
2 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.34%) CMDB
4 1 (0.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.34%) IoT
4 1 (0.34%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Windows
1 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (93.52%) Artificial Intelligence
2 241 (82.25%) Code Quality
3 124 (42.32%) Software Engineering
4 17 (5.80%) Computer Science
5 15 (5.12%) CI/CD
5 15 (5.12%) Roadmaps
6 13 (4.44%) Configuration Management
6 13 (4.44%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (4.44%) WFM
7 12 (4.10%) Machine Learning
7 12 (4.10%) Presales
8 11 (3.75%) Quality Management
9 8 (2.73%) Customer Experience
10 7 (2.39%) Agile
11 6 (2.05%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (1.71%) Data Science
12 5 (1.71%) Natural Language Processing
13 4 (1.37%) BDD
13 4 (1.37%) TDD
13 4 (1.37%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.03%) Python
2 125 (42.66%) JavaScript
3 124 (42.32%) SQL
4 123 (41.98%) C#
5 4 (1.37%) PHP
5 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.68%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 263 (89.76%) Degree
2 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 241 (82.25%) PayPal
2 18 (6.14%) Genesys
3 7 (2.39%) Avaya
3 7 (2.39%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.71%) Google
5 4 (1.37%) Apple
5 4 (1.37%) Perfecto Mobile
5 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.37%) UiPath
6 2 (0.68%) IBM
6 2 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.34%) BMC
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco
7 1 (0.34%) F5
7 1 (0.34%) HP
7 1 (0.34%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle
7 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow