Conversational AI Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Conversational AI
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Conversational AI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Conversational AI over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 343 470
Rank change year-on-year +44 +127 +106
Contract jobs citing Conversational AI 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.007% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.007% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.53% -6.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -30.00% -13.04% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
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% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Conversational AI
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Conversational AI trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Conversational AI
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Conversational AI daily rate 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogflow
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI