Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IVR in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IVR over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 690 793
Rank change year-on-year +149 +103 -129
Contract jobs citing IVR 46 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.028% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.083% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 29
10th Percentile £350 £380 £304
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -9.53%
75th Percentile £654 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £636 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -12.19%

All Generic Skills
UK

IVR is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,935 19,188 29,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.31% 33.29% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,332 13,186 20,393
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 632 728
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -12.50%

IVR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IVR over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IVR in the UK

IVR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IVR within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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
England +133 35 £500 +2.56% 7
Work from Home +140 27 £581 +19.23% 5
London +89 15 £575 -8.00% 4
UK excluding London +72 13 £350 -12.50% 2
East of England - 7 £350 -
Midlands +26 3 £375 -6.25%
West Midlands +23 3 £375 -6.25%
South East +20 2 - -
North West - 1 £350 -
North of England - 1 £350 -

IVR
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 5 (10.87%) Apache
1 5 (10.87%) IIS
1 5 (10.87%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Chatbot
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) AWS
1 21 (45.65%) GCP
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 11 (23.91%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (23.91%) Twilio
4 4 (8.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) VoIP
2 15 (32.61%) CTI
3 5 (10.87%) H.323
3 5 (10.87%) HTTP
3 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.17%) Firewall
4 1 (2.17%) LAN
4 1 (2.17%) MPLS
4 1 (2.17%) Multicast
4 1 (2.17%) MVNO
4 1 (2.17%) Network Security
4 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.17%) SMS
4 1 (2.17%) VoLTE
4 1 (2.17%) VoWiFi
4 1 (2.17%) WAN
4 1 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 19 (41.30%) Telecoms
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (19.57%) Retail
5 5 (10.87%) Legal
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Billing
8 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Architect
2 14 (30.43%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (19.57%) Consultant
3 9 (19.57%) Genesys Consultant
4 4 (8.70%) Technical Support
5 3 (6.52%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Genesys Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Delivery Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) Middleware
1 11 (23.91%) Web Services
2 8 (17.39%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.26%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) WFM
2 22 (47.83%) Conversational UI
3 19 (41.30%) Computer Science
4 18 (39.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 17 (36.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (34.78%) CRM
7 15 (32.61%) Agile
8 13 (28.26%) Capacity Planning
8 13 (28.26%) Knowledge Transfer
8 13 (28.26%) Performance Optimisation
9 12 (26.09%) Customer Experience
9 12 (26.09%) Roadmaps
10 11 (23.91%) Analytics
11 10 (21.74%) DevOps
12 9 (19.57%) Load Balancing
13 8 (17.39%) Data Privacy
13 8 (17.39%) Performance Testing
14 6 (13.04%) Change Management
14 6 (13.04%) Presales
14 6 (13.04%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Degree
2 15 (32.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (30.43%) Master's Degree
4 9 (19.57%) AWS Certification
4 9 (19.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (19.57%) Azure Certification
4 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) GDPR
1 8 (17.39%) HIPAA
1 8 (17.39%) PCI DSS
1 8 (17.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Ansible
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Genesys
2 18 (39.13%) Avaya
3 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
4 12 (26.09%) Cisco
4 12 (26.09%) Google
5 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
5 5 (10.87%) Verint
6 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle
7 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 2 (4.35%) UiPath
8 1 (2.17%) F5