Conversational AI Job Trends in the South East

Conversational AI
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Conversational AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 - 374
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Conversational AI 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.007% - 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% - 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £77,500
75th Percentile £57,500 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +100.00% -23.08% -50.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Conversational AI falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,499 6,980 13,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.48% 90.41% 84.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,980 3,425 9,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,280 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Conversational AI
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Conversational AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Conversational AI job vacancy trend in the South East

Conversational AI
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Conversational AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Conversational AI

Conversational AI
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Conversational AI within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey - 1 £55,000 - 1
Conversational AI
England

Conversational AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Terragrunt
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Laravel
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Human-Centred Design
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform