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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 +47
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 7 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.29% 0.45% 0.14%
As % of the Applications category 6.67% 4.10% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile - £327 -
25th Percentile £463 £364 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £538
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% -4.55%

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 105 195 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 4.29% 11.06% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 122 87
10th Percentile £202 £254 £168
25th Percentile £378 £331 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £613
90th Percentile £716 £823 £688
Central London median daily rate £475 £475 £486
% change year-on-year - -2.26% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £15.45 -
25th Percentile - £23.44 £12.75
Median hourly rate - £31.08 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year - +50.81% +22.10%
75th Percentile - £39.19 £27.00
90th Percentile - £51.15 -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £20.61
% change year-on-year - +41.08% +22.10%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Contentsquare
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Pinecone
1 2 (28.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Claude Code
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Digital Product Owner
1 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) CrewAI
1 2 (28.57%) LangChain
1 2 (28.57%) LlamaIndex
1 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
1 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
1 2 (28.57%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 5 (71.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (57.14%) LLM
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Generative AI
4 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Business Case
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Content Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) MLOps
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Foundry