Conversational AI Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Conversational AI
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Conversational AI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £575 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Conversational AI 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,461 1,181 1,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.02% 89.33% 83.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 796 1,080
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £386 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £606
90th Percentile £650 £678 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 54 117
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.10
25th Percentile £16.21 £14.70 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £47.50 £28.18 £38.75
90th Percentile £70.76 £35.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Conversational AI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Conversational AI job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Conversational AI
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conversational AI within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Birmingham - 5 - - 1
Conversational AI
England

Conversational AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Conversational AI Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (80.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) Semantic Search
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Speech Recognition
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Genesys