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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 721 871 950
Rank change year-on-year +150 +79 +242
Permanent jobs citing IVR 8 12 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.012% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.039% 0.034% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 5
10th Percentile £30,025 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £30,813 £43,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £51,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.27% +36.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £100,625 £57,500 £40,250
90th Percentile £101,750 £67,625 £41,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £55,000 £35,250
% change year-on-year +20.45% +56.03% -35.91%

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 20,501 35,249 43,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.60% 35.32% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,910 23,042 23,101
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,435
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
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 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,975 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.95% -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 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IVR in the UK

IVR
Top 8 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 18 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 +176 6 £66,250 +20.45% 5
England +127 6 £66,250 +20.45% 11
North of England - 3 £100,000 - 5
London +113 2 - - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £100,000 -
Scotland - 2 - -
South East +86 1 £32,500 -40.91% 1
North West - 1 £30,000 - 4

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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
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
3 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) PBX
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
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%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Principal Architect
3 2 (25.00%) 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 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 4 (50.00%) Kanban
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) Content Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Datto
2 1 (12.50%) Sophos
2 1 (12.50%) Xerox