Conversational UI Contracts

Conversational User Interfaces
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Conversational UI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Conversational UI over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 310 647
Rank change year-on-year -126 +337 +55
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 81 302 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.70% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.81% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 45 38
10th Percentile £219 £325 £309
25th Percentile £350 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £588
90th Percentile £680 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £101.75
Median hourly rate £15.46 - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.46 - £103.50
% change year-on-year - - +505.09%

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 26,532 37,140 52,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.25% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,079 23,924 36,124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 2,439 1,724
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.34 £16.00 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%
75th Percentile £60.84 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.06 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.78% +8.57% +75.00%

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 9 May 2025.

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 9 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 -114 68 £425 -15.00% 438
London +42 35 £475 -5.00% 149
UK excluding London -110 33 £400 -20.00% 353
Work from Home -155 29 £400 -20.00% 607
North of England -89 9 £400 -20.00% 133
East of England +39 8 £338 -32.50% 31
South East +46 7 £425 -46.88% 66
Midlands -33 6 £146 -56.69% 63
North West -33 6 £400 -20.00% 65
East Midlands -11 4 £131 - 23
Scotland -5 2 - - 36
West Midlands -8 2 £413 +22.22% 40
North East -24 2 £456 - 14
South West +13 1 £475 -40.63% 16
Yorkshire -34 1 £525 - 54

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 3 (3.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Drupal
2 2 (2.47%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
Applications
1 62 (76.54%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.23%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.47%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.81%) AWS
2 11 (13.58%) Azure
3 9 (11.11%) Figma
4 5 (6.17%) Copilot Studio
5 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.70%) Dialogflow
6 3 (3.70%) GCP
6 3 (3.70%) Google Analytics
6 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.70%) SaaS
7 2 (2.47%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.47%) Firebase
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Twilio
7 2 (2.47%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (1.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Big Data
2 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.23%) Looker
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.47%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.58%) Finance
3 10 (12.35%) Marketing
4 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Legal
6 3 (3.70%) Retail
7 2 (2.47%) Back Office
7 2 (2.47%) Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Publishing
8 1 (1.23%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.23%) French Language
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Developer
2 9 (11.11%) Designer
3 8 (9.88%) Analyst
3 8 (9.88%) Trainer
4 7 (8.64%) Architect
4 7 (8.64%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.41%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 4 (4.94%) Lead
6 4 (4.94%) Product Lead
6 4 (4.94%) QA Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.94%) UX Designer
7 3 (3.70%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Content Designer
7 3 (3.70%) Customer Analyst
8 2 (2.47%) SEO Executive
8 2 (2.47%) Service Analyst
8 2 (2.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) HTML
2 4 (4.94%) Hugging Face
2 4 (4.94%) Node.js
3 3 (3.70%) CSS
3 3 (3.70%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.47%) .NET
4 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.47%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.47%) FHIR
4 2 (2.47%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.47%) JSON
4 2 (2.47%) Keras
4 2 (2.47%) LangChain
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth
4 2 (2.47%) Parceljs
4 2 (2.47%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.47%) React
4 2 (2.47%) RESTful
4 2 (2.47%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (1.23%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.94%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.94%) Social Media
4 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.47%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) IVR
5 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.23%) Animation
6 1 (1.23%) CMDB
6 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) Artificial Intelligence
2 18 (22.22%) User Experience
3 16 (19.75%) Agile
4 15 (18.52%) LLM
4 15 (18.52%) Machine Learning
4 15 (18.52%) UX Design
5 13 (16.05%) Natural Language Processing
6 10 (12.35%) Analytics
6 10 (12.35%) Case Management
7 9 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 9 (11.11%) Generative AI
8 8 (9.88%) Conversational AI
8 8 (9.88%) CRM
9 7 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (8.64%) Scrum
10 6 (7.41%) Code Quality
10 6 (7.41%) Project Management
10 6 (7.41%) WFM
11 5 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.75%) Python
2 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.64%) SQL
4 6 (7.41%) C#
4 6 (7.41%) C++
5 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.47%) C
6 2 (2.47%) Java
6 2 (2.47%) PHP
6 2 (2.47%) R
7 1 (1.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) Degree
2 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.47%) PMP
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) QA
2 8 (9.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.47%) GDPR
3 2 (2.47%) WCAG
4 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) HL7
4 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.23%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.88%) Google
3 7 (8.64%) PayPal
4 5 (6.17%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.94%) Databricks
5 4 (4.94%) SAP
6 2 (2.47%) Genesys
6 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) Screaming Frog
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) Adobe
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Nexthink
7 1 (1.23%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.23%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.23%) Sitecore