Conversational UI Contract Job Trends

Conversational User Interfaces
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Conversational UI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 454 486 407
Rank change year-on-year +32 -79 +288
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 149 58 197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.17% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.19% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 44 52
10th Percentile £400 £217 £435
25th Percentile £413 £356 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -11.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £645
90th Percentile £684 £676 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £356 £553
% change year-on-year +23.60% -35.57% +16.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £29.61 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.61 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Conversational UI 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 32,471 30,121 39,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.45% 87.99% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,452 18,385 26,091
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £745 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,000 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.61 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.88% +25.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.04 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.87% -27.21% +39.06%

Conversational UI
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Conversational UI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Conversational UI job vacancy trend in the UK

Conversational UI
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conversational UI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conversational UI

Conversational UI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conversational UI over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conversational UI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Conversational UI

Conversational UI
Top 15 Contract Job 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 16 December 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 +44 121 £500 +3.57% 26
London +51 73 £500 -9.09% 13
Work from Home +42 58 £503 +0.50% 54
UK excluding London -29 50 £440 +23.60% 20
North of England -32 18 £463 -4.19% 5
South East -6 12 £501 +175.41% 9
North West -28 12 £445 -7.82% 4
Wales - 7 £425 - 1
Scotland +4 6 £447 +306.36%
Yorkshire - 5 £516 -
East of England -21 4 £713 +111.11%
East Midlands -18 2 £132 -62.83%
Midlands -41 2 £132 -62.83% 1
South West -7 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 1

Conversational UI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.70%) Moodle
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Jupyter
3 3 (2.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 106 (71.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.67%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.82%) AWS
2 27 (18.12%) Azure
3 16 (10.74%) Vertex AI
4 15 (10.07%) Dialogflow
5 14 (9.40%) Amazon Bedrock
6 13 (8.72%) GCP
7 11 (7.38%) Power Platform
8 10 (6.71%) GitHub
8 10 (6.71%) Serverless
9 9 (6.04%) Azure AI
10 7 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.03%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (3.36%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (3.36%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 5 (3.36%) Figma
13 4 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.68%) SaaS
14 3 (2.01%) Apigee
14 3 (2.01%) Google Analytics
14 3 (2.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.71%) Pinecone
3 7 (4.70%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.36%) MySQL
4 5 (3.36%) Power BI
4 5 (3.36%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.36%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.36%) Weaviate
5 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.34%) Tableau
8 1 (0.67%) Big Data
8 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
1 5 (3.36%) PyCharm
2 3 (2.01%) Git
3 1 (0.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) MLflow
3 1 (0.67%) Xcode
General
1 36 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.12%) Finance
3 26 (17.45%) Banking
4 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.07%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.70%) Marketing
7 6 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.03%) Retail
8 5 (3.36%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.36%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.68%) Front Office
9 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.34%) Publishing
11 1 (0.67%) Automotive
11 1 (0.67%) German Language
11 1 (0.67%) Legal
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 29 (19.46%) Developer
2 28 (18.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (8.05%) Senior
4 9 (6.04%) Trainer
5 8 (5.37%) Lead
6 7 (4.70%) Architect
6 7 (4.70%) Moodle Developer
7 6 (4.03%) Business Analyst
7 6 (4.03%) Data Scientist
7 6 (4.03%) Product Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (3.36%) Gen AI Engineer
8 5 (3.36%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 4 (2.68%) Analyst
9 4 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (2.68%) Designer
9 4 (2.68%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (2.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.68%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.42%) FastAPI
1 20 (13.42%) LangChain
2 19 (12.75%) Node.js
3 17 (11.41%) React
4 15 (10.07%) TensorFlow
5 13 (8.72%) Pandas
6 12 (8.05%) PyTorch
7 11 (7.38%) CrewAI
7 11 (7.38%) Hugging Face
7 11 (7.38%) LangGraph
8 9 (6.04%) Faiss
9 8 (5.37%) AngularJS
9 8 (5.37%) NumPy
9 8 (5.37%) REST
9 8 (5.37%) SQLAlchemy
10 7 (4.70%) RESTful
11 6 (4.03%) Keras
12 5 (3.36%) D3.js
12 5 (3.36%) scikit-learn
13 4 (2.68%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) AI Agents
2 20 (13.42%) Mobile App
3 18 (12.08%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.38%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (6.04%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.70%) Autonomous Agent
6 7 (4.70%) Cloud Native
6 7 (4.70%) Virtual Team
7 5 (3.36%) Low-Code
7 5 (3.36%) RIA
7 5 (3.36%) W3C
8 4 (2.68%) Clustering
8 4 (2.68%) Online Banking
8 4 (2.68%) Spread Betting
9 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.01%) IVR
9 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.01%) Social Media
10 2 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.34%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (91.95%) AI
2 69 (46.31%) Agile
3 57 (38.26%) Machine Learning
4 54 (36.24%) LLM
5 50 (33.56%) Generative AI
6 48 (32.21%) Conversational AI
7 34 (22.82%) Data Science
8 32 (21.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 30 (20.13%) Analytics
10 28 (18.79%) User Experience
11 24 (16.11%) Prompt Engineering
12 23 (15.44%) Use Case
13 19 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (12.75%) Roadmaps
14 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (11.41%) Natural Language Processing
16 16 (10.74%) Decision-Making
16 16 (10.74%) DevOps
17 15 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (10.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.91%) Python
2 13 (8.72%) SQL
2 13 (8.72%) TypeScript
3 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.37%) Java
5 2 (1.34%) R
6 1 (0.67%) Ruby
6 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (16.78%) Degree
2 12 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) Master's Degree
4 9 (6.04%) MCP
5 8 (5.37%) PhD
6 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.40%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.03%) GDPR
2 6 (4.03%) WCAG
3 4 (2.68%) QA
4 3 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.34%) ITGC
6 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.03%) Terraform
2 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Google
2 17 (11.41%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.05%) OpenAI
4 10 (6.71%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.04%) PayPal
6 6 (4.03%) Genesys
7 4 (2.68%) Databricks
7 4 (2.68%) SAP
7 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.01%) IBM
8 3 (2.01%) OneTrust
8 3 (2.01%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.34%) Adobe
9 2 (1.34%) Facebook
9 2 (1.34%) Oracle
10 1 (0.67%) Avaya
10 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.67%) DataRobot
10 1 (0.67%) Netlify
10 1 (0.67%) NVIDIA