Speech Recognition Contracts

Speech Recognition or Voice Recognition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Speech Recognition skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Speech Recognition over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 564 689
Rank change year-on-year +51 +125 +165
Contract jobs citing Speech Recognition 5 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.014% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.016% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £410 £411 -
25th Percentile £444 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £260
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +87.02% -25.71%
75th Percentile £500 £500 -
90th Percentile £523 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Speech Recognition 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 26,275 36,537 50,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 85.91% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,842 23,555 35,132
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 2,471 1,680
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.74
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%
75th Percentile £57.57 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.38% +7.86% +75.00%

Speech Recognition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Speech Recognition in the UK

Speech Recognition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Speech Recognition in the UK

Speech Recognition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Speech Recognition in the UK

Speech Recognition
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Speech Recognition within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +65 5 £475 -2.31% 29
London +58 3 £463 -4.88% 17
Work from Home +45 2 £475 - 109
UK excluding London - 2 £475 - 18
South East - 2 £475 - 3

Speech Recognition
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (20.00%) Pa11y
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Audio Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) WCF
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) ONNX
2 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Wiki
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Feature Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple