Chatbots
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chatbot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chatbot over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 664 723
Rank change year-on-year +344 +59 -99
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 282 54 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.091% 0.15%
As % of the Applications category 8.29% 1.24% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 89
10th Percentile £285 £306 £512
25th Percentile £425 £412 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -33.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £609 £578 -
90th Percentile £638 £793 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £431 £525
% change year-on-year +15.94% -17.86% +10.53%
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 Software Application Skills
UK

Chatbot is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,400 4,370 6,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.88% 7.39% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 2,860 4,325
10th Percentile £161 £188 £163
25th Percentile £213 £285 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 635 266 435
10th Percentile £11.57 £14.22 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £32.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.89% +52.33% +16.22%
75th Percentile £39.44 £52.50 £44.85
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.38 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £31.14 £19.25
% change year-on-year -48.42% +61.78% +6.92%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +334 264 £500 +17.65% 13
England +296 253 £500 +5.26% 31
UK excluding London +237 224 £500 +15.94% 9
North of England +130 123 - - 8
Midlands +74 51 £314 -26.18%
North West +66 50 - - 4
Yorkshire +60 46 - - 3
London +127 45 £500 -10.11% 18
North East - 27 - - 1
West Midlands - 26 £314 -
East Midlands +43 25 - -
South West +46 24 - -
Scotland +62 23 - -
East of England +12 3 £500 - 1

Chatbot
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 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (3.55%) AWS
1 10 (3.55%) Azure
1 10 (3.55%) GCP
2 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
2 3 (1.06%) SaaS
2 3 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (0.71%) IBM Watson
3 2 (0.71%) Power Automate
3 2 (0.71%) PowerApps
3 2 (0.71%) Vertex AI
4 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.35%) Figma
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Einstein
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (0.35%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) CTI
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) LAN
2 1 (0.35%) MPLS
2 1 (0.35%) Multicast
2 1 (0.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.35%) VoIP
2 1 (0.35%) WAN
2 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.06%) Power BI
2 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.35%) MySQL
General
1 8 (2.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
3 3 (1.06%) Banking
3 3 (1.06%) Finance
4 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.35%) Danish Language
5 1 (0.35%) Legal
5 1 (0.35%) Marketing
5 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 249 (88.30%) Developer
2 241 (85.46%) Software Developer
3 12 (4.26%) Consultant
4 10 (3.55%) Genesys Consultant
5 5 (1.77%) Architect
5 5 (1.77%) Lead
6 4 (1.42%) Analyst
6 4 (1.42%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (1.42%) Business Analyst
6 4 (1.42%) Cloud Consultant
6 4 (1.42%) Data Science Leader
6 4 (1.42%) Lead Product Owner
6 4 (1.42%) Product Lead
6 4 (1.42%) Product Owner
6 4 (1.42%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (1.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (0.71%) Azure Developer
8 2 (0.71%) Platform Specialist
8 2 (0.71%) Power Platform Developer
8 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (43.26%) HTML
2 9 (3.19%) RESTful
3 3 (1.06%) Web Services
4 2 (0.71%) SOAP
4 2 (0.71%) XML
5 1 (0.35%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) Ajax
5 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) LangChain
5 1 (0.35%) LDAP
5 1 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.35%) Middleware
5 1 (0.35%) REST
5 1 (0.35%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.96%) IVR
2 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.35%) CMDB
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.35%) Windows
1 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 269 (95.39%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (85.46%) Code Quality
4 124 (43.97%) Software Engineering
5 12 (4.26%) Computer Science
5 12 (4.26%) Machine Learning
6 10 (3.55%) Customer Experience
6 10 (3.55%) Roadmaps
7 9 (3.19%) CI/CD
7 9 (3.19%) WFM
8 8 (2.84%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (2.48%) Configuration Management
10 6 (2.13%) Presales
10 6 (2.13%) Quality Management
11 5 (1.77%) Analytics
11 5 (1.77%) Data Science
11 5 (1.77%) DevOps
11 5 (1.77%) Natural Language Processing
12 4 (1.42%) Agile
13 3 (1.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 125 (44.33%) Python
2 123 (43.62%) JavaScript
2 123 (43.62%) SQL
3 122 (43.26%) C#
4 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.35%) PHP
4 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 258 (91.49%) Degree
2 6 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.71%) GDPR
2 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.35%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 241 (85.46%) PayPal
2 12 (4.26%) Genesys
3 8 (2.84%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.42%) Avaya
6 3 (1.06%) UiPath
7 2 (0.71%) Cisco
7 2 (0.71%) Google
7 2 (0.71%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) BMC
8 1 (0.35%) F5
8 1 (0.35%) HP
8 1 (0.35%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Workday