Chatbot Contract Job Trends in England

Chatbots
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 482 396
Rank change year-on-year +19 -86 +284
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 87 31 161
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.11% 0.43%
As % of the Applications category 3.39% 1.45% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 27 36
10th Percentile £321 £306 £443
25th Percentile £405 £353 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £634
90th Percentile £600 £650 £710
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £25.23 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £29.61 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £29.61 - -

All Software Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,566 2,142 3,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 8.25% 7.30% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,472 1,235 1,879
10th Percentile £200 £170 £163
25th Percentile £305 £256 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% +3.13% -10.91%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £668
UK median daily rate £438 £401 £403
% change year-on-year +9.24% -0.58% -8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 208 249
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.53 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.80 £24.35 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -14.56% -13.98% +7.81%
75th Percentile £29.61 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £59.91 £72.38 £51.70
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £24.18 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.25% -10.43% +7.98%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in England

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chatbot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in England

Chatbot
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chatbot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
London +34 48 £488 -11.36% 12
North of England -30 15 £463 -4.19% 4
South East +12 11 £503 +176.10% 10
North West -18 10 £445 -7.82% 4
Yorkshire - 5 £516 -
East of England -21 3 £675 +100.00%
East Midlands -22 2 £132 -62.83%
Midlands -42 2 £132 -62.83%
South West - 1 - - 1
Chatbot
UK

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.45%) Apache
2 3 (3.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.39%) AWS
2 15 (17.24%) Azure
3 9 (10.34%) Serverless
4 8 (9.20%) Vertex AI
5 7 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.90%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.75%) GitHub
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.60%) Azure AI
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.60%) Figma
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (3.45%) Commercetools
9 3 (3.45%) Contentful
9 3 (3.45%) Dialogflow
9 3 (3.45%) GCP
9 3 (3.45%) Google Analytics
9 3 (3.45%) WhatsApp
10 2 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) Internet
2 1 (1.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.20%) Pinecone
3 7 (8.05%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.75%) MySQL
4 5 (5.75%) RDBMS
4 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.60%) Power BI
5 4 (4.60%) Weaviate
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.30%) Tableau
7 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.75%) PyCharm
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (1.15%) MLflow
General
1 28 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.29%) Banking
3 20 (22.99%) Finance
4 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Marketing
6 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.60%) Front Office
7 4 (4.60%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.45%) Retail
8 3 (3.45%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.15%) Automotive
10 1 (1.15%) Legal
10 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Senior
4 8 (9.20%) Trainer
5 6 (6.90%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (4.60%) Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Front Office Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Gen AI Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) UX Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Junior
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Leader
9 2 (2.30%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.30%) Senior Product Manager
9 2 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) Node.js
2 12 (13.79%) React
3 9 (10.34%) LangChain
4 8 (9.20%) NumPy
4 8 (9.20%) Pandas
5 6 (6.90%) Faiss
5 6 (6.90%) FastAPI
5 6 (6.90%) TensorFlow
6 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.75%) D3.js
7 4 (4.60%) CrewAI
7 4 (4.60%) Highcharts JS
7 4 (4.60%) Kafka
7 4 (4.60%) LangGraph
7 4 (4.60%) Plotly
7 4 (4.60%) Vue
7 4 (4.60%) WebSockets
8 3 (3.45%) Gradio
8 3 (3.45%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.45%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.64%) Mobile App
3 10 (11.49%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (9.20%) AI Agents
4 8 (9.20%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.75%) RIA
5 5 (5.75%) Virtual Team
5 5 (5.75%) W3C
6 4 (4.60%) Autonomous Agent
6 4 (4.60%) Clustering
6 4 (4.60%) Low-Code
6 4 (4.60%) Online Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Spread Betting
7 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.45%) Social Media
8 2 (2.30%) IVR
8 2 (2.30%) Sports Betting
9 1 (1.15%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.15%) Industry 4.0
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 80 (91.95%) AI
3 41 (47.13%) Agile
4 39 (44.83%) Machine Learning
5 27 (31.03%) LLM
6 24 (27.59%) Analytics
7 21 (24.14%) Generative AI
8 20 (22.99%) Data Science
9 19 (21.84%) User Experience
10 16 (18.39%) Use Case
11 15 (17.24%) Conversational AI
12 14 (16.09%) Microservices
13 13 (14.94%) DevOps
13 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (13.79%) Natural Language Processing
14 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (12.64%) Prompt Engineering
15 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
16 10 (11.49%) Data Protection
16 10 (11.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Python
2 11 (12.64%) SQL
3 8 (9.20%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.90%) Java
6 1 (1.15%) R
6 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Degree
2 8 (9.20%) Master's Degree
3 7 (8.05%) PhD
4 3 (3.45%) MCP
5 2 (2.30%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) CBAP
6 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.75%) WCAG
3 4 (4.60%) GDPR
4 3 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (10.34%) Google
1 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) PayPal
3 7 (8.05%) OpenAI
4 6 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.60%) SAP
6 3 (3.45%) OneTrust
6 3 (3.45%) Optimizely
7 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.30%) Facebook
7 2 (2.30%) Genesys
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) Adobe
8 1 (1.15%) Dataiku
8 1 (1.15%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.15%) Informatica
8 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.15%) Netlify
8 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Zoho