Chatbot Contract Job Trends in London

Chatbots
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 336 361
Rank change year-on-year -17 +25 +87
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 76 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Applications category 7.73% 3.32% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 23 18
10th Percentile £413 £326 £368
25th Percentile £516 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £593 £619
90th Percentile £716 £700 £654
England median daily rate £575 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +35.29% -12.82% -15.22%

All Software Application Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 983 1,053 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 4.94% 7.70% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 668 629
10th Percentile £228 £250 £200
25th Percentile £356 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £423
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +6.51% -13.99%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £538
90th Percentile £685 £738 £650
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 71 45
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.84 £15.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% +11.78% -12.49%
75th Percentile £44.87 £29.07 £36.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £24.00 £17.39
% change year-on-year +4.17% +37.99% -30.43%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in London

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in London over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in London

Chatbot
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the London region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Central London -11 9 £475 +18.75% 5
West London - 3 £600 - 6
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (2.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.32%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.32%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) AWS
2 18 (23.68%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) Azure AI
3 8 (10.53%) Google Workspace
3 8 (10.53%) Miro
4 7 (9.21%) Amazon Bedrock
4 7 (9.21%) WhatsApp
5 5 (6.58%) GCP
5 5 (6.58%) GitHub
6 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.26%) Serverless
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.95%) Figma
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.63%) Contentsquare
8 2 (2.63%) Copilot Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.63%) Metadata
1 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.63%) Pinecone
1 2 (2.63%) Weaviate
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Tableau
2 1 (1.32%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 5 (6.58%) JSUnit
3 2 (2.63%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) Claude Code
General
1 31 (40.79%) Finance
2 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Retail
5 6 (7.89%) Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Marketing
6 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Lead
2 9 (11.84%) Designer
3 7 (9.21%) Architect
3 7 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 7 (9.21%) Senior
4 6 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.26%) Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.95%) Consultant
7 3 (3.95%) Management Consultant
7 3 (3.95%) Service Desk Consultant
7 3 (3.95%) Service Management Consultant
8 2 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Administrator
8 2 (2.63%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (2.63%) Software Development Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) LangChain
1 7 (9.21%) React
2 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
2 6 (7.89%) Next.js
2 6 (7.89%) Node.js
3 5 (6.58%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (5.26%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.95%) Playwright
6 2 (2.63%) .NET
6 2 (2.63%) CrewAI
6 2 (2.63%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.63%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.63%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.63%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.32%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.32%) JSON
7 1 (1.32%) Pandas
7 1 (1.32%) REST
7 1 (1.32%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) AI Agents
2 9 (11.84%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.26%) Taxonomies
4 3 (3.95%) Life Science
4 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.63%) IVR
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
1 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 60 (78.95%) AI
3 29 (38.16%) Generative AI
3 29 (38.16%) LLM
4 26 (34.21%) Customer Experience
5 23 (30.26%) Machine Learning
6 20 (26.32%) Agile
7 18 (23.68%) Decision-Making
7 18 (23.68%) Use Case
8 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (19.74%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 14 (18.42%) Journey Map
11 13 (17.11%) User Experience
12 12 (15.79%) Conversational AI
12 12 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (14.47%) Analytics
13 11 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
15 9 (11.84%) Data Science
15 9 (11.84%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) Python
2 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
3 8 (10.53%) SQL
4 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.32%) Bash
5 1 (1.32%) C#
5 1 (1.32%) Java
5 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.32%) R
5 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) Ansible
4 1 (1.32%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) Google
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.58%) Foundry
4 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.63%) Adobe
5 2 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
5 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) Pegasus
6 1 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) UiPath