Conversational AI Contracts with Work from Home Options

Conversational AI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Conversational AI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Conversational AI over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 454 580
Rank change year-on-year +116 +126 -85
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 3 1 39
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.004% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.005% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 39
10th Percentile £493 - -
25th Percentile £528 £475 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -28.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £643 £525 -
90th Percentile £677 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +55.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Conversational AI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Conversational AI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Conversational AI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Conversational AI trend for jobs with a WFH option

Conversational AI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Conversational AI.

Conversational AI daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Conversational AI
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Conversational AI over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Conversational AI daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Conversational AI
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Twilio
2 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) CTI
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Appium
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) IVR
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) WFM
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Avaya
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Genesys
2 2 (66.67%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (33.33%) SAP