Conversational UI Contracts

Conversational User Interfaces
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Conversational UI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Conversational UI over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 641 698
Rank change year-on-year +333 +57 -78
Contract jobs citing Conversational UI 303 58 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 38 100
10th Percentile £325 £309 £500
25th Percentile £413 £413 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £719
90th Percentile £700 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.67% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.37
25th Percentile - £101.75 £16.85
Median hourly rate - £103.50 £18.80
Median % change year-on-year - +450.46% -26.26%
75th Percentile - £105.25 £20.85
90th Percentile - - £21.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.50 £17.11
% change year-on-year - +505.09% -32.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Conversational UI is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Conversational UI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conversational UI.

Daily rate trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conversational UI over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Conversational UI.

Hourly rate trend for Conversational UI in the UK

Conversational UI
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conversational UI within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +321 271 £500 +14.29% 22
England +301 268 £500 +5.26% 42
UK excluding London +226 226 £500 +14.29% 14
North of England +135 125 £500 +17.65% 9
London +133 57 £500 -13.04% 23
North West +66 52 £500 +42.86% 4
Midlands +74 50 £264 -37.94%
Yorkshire +56 46 - - 2
North East - 27 - - 3
East Midlands +40 25 £190 -55.29%
South West +36 25 £800 +88.24% 3
West Midlands - 25 £338 -
Scotland +64 23 - - 1
East of England +15 3 £500 - 1
South East +7 1 £800 +60.00% 1

Conversational UI
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 4 (1.32%) Confluence
2 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 294 (97.03%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (6.93%) Azure
2 19 (6.27%) AWS
3 18 (5.94%) GCP
4 9 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (2.97%) Twilio
5 4 (1.32%) Amazon Alexa
5 4 (1.32%) BrowserStack
5 4 (1.32%) Firebase
5 4 (1.32%) Sauce Labs
6 3 (0.99%) Azure Stack
6 3 (0.99%) GitHub
6 3 (0.99%) SaaS
6 3 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (0.66%) IBM Watson
7 2 (0.66%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.66%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.66%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Einstein
7 2 (0.66%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.97%) CTI
1 9 (2.97%) VoIP
2 4 (1.32%) MQTT
3 2 (0.66%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) HTTP
4 1 (0.33%) LAN
4 1 (0.33%) MPLS
4 1 (0.33%) Multicast
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
4 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) Power BI
2 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.33%) MySQL
2 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Appium
1 4 (1.32%) Bitbucket
1 4 (1.32%) Cucumber
1 4 (1.32%) Git
1 4 (1.32%) Jenkins
1 4 (1.32%) JIRA
1 4 (1.32%) Selenium
2 3 (0.99%) GitLab
General
1 14 (4.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (4.29%) Telecoms
3 10 (3.30%) Finance
4 9 (2.97%) Retail
5 5 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.66%) Banking
6 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.66%) Legal
7 1 (0.33%) Danish Language
7 1 (0.33%) Marketing
7 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 256 (84.49%) Developer
2 243 (80.20%) Software Developer
3 14 (4.62%) Architect
4 11 (3.63%) Consultant
4 11 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.97%) Genesys Consultant
6 8 (2.64%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (1.32%) Analyst
7 4 (1.32%) Business Analyst
7 4 (1.32%) Cloud Consultant
7 4 (1.32%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (1.32%) Lead
7 4 (1.32%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (1.32%) Product Lead
7 4 (1.32%) Product Owner
8 3 (0.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Developer
8 3 (0.99%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (0.99%) QA Engineer
8 3 (0.99%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (40.92%) HTML
2 11 (3.63%) Web Services
3 9 (2.97%) Middleware
3 9 (2.97%) RESTful
4 3 (0.99%) CSS
4 3 (0.99%) Laravel
4 3 (0.99%) pytest
4 3 (0.99%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (0.33%) Ajax
5 1 (0.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.33%) LangChain
5 1 (0.33%) LDAP
5 1 (0.33%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.33%) Node.js
5 1 (0.33%) REST
5 1 (0.33%) SOAP
5 1 (0.33%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.26%) IVR
2 8 (2.64%) Management Information System
3 5 (1.65%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.33%) CMDB
5 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.33%) IoT
5 1 (0.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.33%) Windows
1 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (94.39%) Artificial Intelligence
2 241 (79.54%) Code Quality
3 124 (40.92%) Software Engineering
4 20 (6.60%) Computer Science
5 17 (5.61%) Customer Experience
6 16 (5.28%) WFM
7 15 (4.95%) Agile
7 15 (4.95%) Analytics
8 13 (4.29%) DevOps
9 12 (3.96%) Machine Learning
9 12 (3.96%) Roadmaps
10 11 (3.63%) CRM
11 10 (3.30%) Data Privacy
12 9 (2.97%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (2.97%) CI/CD
12 9 (2.97%) Knowledge Transfer
12 9 (2.97%) Load Balancing
12 9 (2.97%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (2.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (2.64%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 130 (42.90%) Python
2 125 (41.25%) JavaScript
3 121 (39.93%) C#
3 121 (39.93%) SQL
4 5 (1.65%) PHP
5 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 266 (87.79%) Degree
2 15 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.30%) Azure Certification
3 10 (3.30%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.30%) GDPR
2 8 (2.64%) HIPAA
2 8 (2.64%) PCI DSS
2 8 (2.64%) SOC 2
3 5 (1.65%) QA
4 2 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 241 (79.54%) PayPal
2 19 (6.27%) Genesys
3 17 (5.61%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.62%) Google
5 11 (3.63%) Avaya
6 10 (3.30%) Cisco
7 9 (2.97%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.32%) Apple
8 4 (1.32%) Perfecto Mobile
9 2 (0.66%) IBM
9 2 (0.66%) UiPath
9 2 (0.66%) Workday
10 1 (0.33%) BMC
10 1 (0.33%) F5
10 1 (0.33%) HP
10 1 (0.33%) Ivanti
10 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle
10 1 (0.33%) SAP
10 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow