Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IVR in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited IVR over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 897 956
Rank change year-on-year +203 +59 +261
Permanent jobs citing IVR 8 10 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.010% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.039% 0.028% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £30,700 £45,250 £29,200
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £55,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% +46.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £100,625 £57,500 £41,625
90th Percentile £101,750 £68,875 £57,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £55,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year +81.82% +71.88% -41.82%

All Generic Skills
UK

IVR falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IVR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IVR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IVR.

Salary trend for IVR in the UK

IVR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IVR over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IVR in the UK

IVR
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IVR within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +183 5 £100,000 +81.82% 9
England +169 5 £100,000 +81.82% 16
North of England - 3 £100,000 - 1
London +105 2 - - 10
Scotland - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £100,000 - 1
North West - 1 £30,000 -

IVR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) PBX
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Generative AI
3 4 (50.00%) Adaptive Web Design
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) ArchiMate
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) CRM
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Kanban
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Anywhere
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Prism
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) UiPath