Chat Support Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Chat Support
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Chat Support skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chat Support over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 344 472
Rank change year-on-year +44 +128 +158
Contract jobs citing Chat Support 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.007% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £437 - £143
25th Percentile £439 £118 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £135 £355
Median % change year-on-year +229.63% -61.97% +77.50%
75th Percentile £449 £153 £488
90th Percentile £450 - -
UK median daily rate £440 £268 £375
% change year-on-year +64.49% -28.67% +120.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.19
Median hourly rate - - £16.37
75th Percentile - - £16.56
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £16.37

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Chat Support falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Chat Support
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Chat Support as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Chat Support trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Chat Support
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Chat Support.

Chat Support daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Chat Support
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Firebase
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Skype
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Android Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Android Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 2 (50.00%) Material Design
1 2 (50.00%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) MVVM
1 2 (50.00%) Push Notifications
2 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Journey Map
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Genesys
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy