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 have cited IVR over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 967 1161
Rank change year-on-year +80 +194 -284
Permanent jobs citing IVR 11 13 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.013% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.030% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 15
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £36,800
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,063 £42,319
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -31.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £39,875 £57,500
90th Percentile - £41,625 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £35,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +56.03% -35.91% -2.65%

All Generic Skills
UK

IVR is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IVR in the UK

IVR
Top 6 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 10 May 2024. 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
England +93 8 £55,000 +46.67% 6
Work from Home +65 6 £47,500 +26.67% 5
UK excluding London -12 6 £55,000 +56.03% 2
South East +9 5 £55,000 +36.65%
London +114 2 £37,500 - 3
East of England +12 1 £67,500 +110.94%

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 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) CTI
1 4 (36.36%) PBX
2 3 (27.27%) LAN
2 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
2 3 (27.27%) VLAN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
General
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Smartphone
3 1 (9.09%) Device Driver
3 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Customer Service
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 3 (27.27%) Network Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (27.27%) Security Management
2 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Security Patching
4 1 (9.09%) Application Packaging
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Fintech
4 1 (9.09%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) Line Management
4 1 (9.09%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
2 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Salesforce
3 4 (36.36%) SAP
4 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) Mitel
5 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft