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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 794 793 1162
Rank change year-on-year -1 +369 -165
Permanent jobs citing IVR 11 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.030% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.042% 0.075% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 18
10th Percentile £34,000 £26,250 £38,075
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £38,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -30.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £52,193 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £68,750 £70,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £32,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +48.44% -41.82% -4.35%

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 25,991 25,358 71,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.49% 39.64% 46.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12,988 17,907 33,689
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,996
25th Percentile £43,219 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £107,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%

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 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for IVR in the UK

IVR
Top 10 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 20 September 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 -28 7 £57,500 +49.35% 11
Work from Home +20 5 £47,500 -4.98% 7
UK excluding London -52 5 £47,500 +48.44% 5
London +27 3 £70,000 +12.00% 6
South West -4 1 £47,500 +83.57%
Midlands -26 1 £25,000 -49.99% 1
South East -34 1 - -
East of England -36 1 £67,500 +110.94%
Scotland - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £25,000 - 1

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%) Chatbot
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Datadog
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
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%) VoIP
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Broadband
3 1 (9.09%) RTP
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Junior
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
1 1 (9.09%) Learning Management System
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
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%) Security Management
2 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (18.18%) Biometrics
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Data Security
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) Genesys
4 1 (9.09%) HubSpot
4 1 (9.09%) Mitel
4 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 1 (9.09%) Red Box
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow