Chatbot Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Chatbots
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 118 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +58
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% 0.051% 0.16%
As % of the Applications category 1.46% 0.68% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £368 - £643
25th Percentile £375 £663 £670
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £730
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% -7.53% -12.21%
75th Percentile £425 £688 £773
90th Percentile £433 - £789
Central London median daily rate £400 £675 £730
% change year-on-year -40.74% -7.53% -12.21%

All Software Application Skills
City of London

Chatbot falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 137 146 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.49% 7.48% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 88 113
10th Percentile £252 £206 £160
25th Percentile £333 £300 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £638
90th Percentile £637 £738 £740
Central London median daily rate £463 £469 £468
% change year-on-year -1.33% +0.27% -10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.84
25th Percentile £39.25 - £23.70
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £28.47
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.12%
75th Percentile £41.75 - £33.23
90th Percentile - - £36.09
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -27.23% +84.89% -16.79%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chatbot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the City of London

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Chatbot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CockroachDB
1 1 (50.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) boto
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (50.00%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Search
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Journey Map
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Amplitude