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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 337 351
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 +150
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 53 18 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Applications category 5.51% 1.93% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 13
10th Percentile £318 £283 £275
25th Percentile £400 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £566 £650 £630
90th Percentile £610 £680 £695
England median daily rate £510 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +27.50% -20.00% -

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 962 934 1,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 6.56% 6.83% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 569 893
10th Percentile £263 £200 £189
25th Percentile £376 £313 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.86% -9.33%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
England median daily rate £450 £409 £400
% change year-on-year +10.02% +2.25% -10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 77
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.54 £16.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.21 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +42.81% -19.39%
75th Percentile £28.03 £36.31 £32.69
90th Percentile £37.51 £47.47 £52.90
England median hourly rate £19.00 £27.13 £20.77
% change year-on-year -29.95% +30.60% -37.06%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -2 2 £400 -40.74% 5
West London -22 1 £400 - 7
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 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.77%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) AWS
2 8 (15.09%) Azure
2 8 (15.09%) Figma
2 8 (15.09%) Serverless
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon Bedrock
3 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (9.43%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.66%) CloudFront
6 3 (5.66%) GCP
6 3 (5.66%) Google Analytics
6 3 (5.66%) WhatsApp
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.77%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.77%) Commercetools
7 2 (3.77%) Contentful
7 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Einstein
7 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Pinecone
2 3 (5.66%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) MLflow
General
1 23 (43.40%) Finance
2 15 (28.30%) Banking
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Front Office
3 4 (7.55%) Marketing
3 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Retail
5 2 (3.77%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) Developer
2 8 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Senior
4 4 (7.55%) Designer
4 4 (7.55%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Lead
4 4 (7.55%) Product Manager
4 4 (7.55%) UX Developer
5 3 (5.66%) Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Data Scientist
5 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Development Team Leader
6 2 (3.77%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Team Leader
6 2 (3.77%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) React
2 7 (13.21%) AngularJS
2 7 (13.21%) Vue
2 7 (13.21%) WebSockets
3 6 (11.32%) Node.js
4 4 (7.55%) D3.js
4 4 (7.55%) FastAPI
4 4 (7.55%) Highcharts JS
4 4 (7.55%) Kafka
4 4 (7.55%) Plotly
5 3 (5.66%) boto
5 3 (5.66%) CSS
5 3 (5.66%) GraphQL
5 3 (5.66%) HTML
5 3 (5.66%) LangGraph
5 3 (5.66%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (5.66%) OAuth
6 2 (3.77%) NumPy
6 2 (3.77%) RESTful
6 2 (3.77%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.98%) AI Agents
3 5 (9.43%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.55%) Spread Betting
5 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.77%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.77%) Social Media
5 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.89%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) RIA
6 1 (1.89%) Robotics
6 1 (1.89%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 48 (90.57%) AI
3 25 (47.17%) Agile
4 21 (39.62%) Generative AI
5 20 (37.74%) Machine Learning
6 15 (28.30%) LLM
7 13 (24.53%) Analytics
8 12 (22.64%) Conversational AI
8 12 (22.64%) Data Science
8 12 (22.64%) User Experience
9 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.09%) Customer Experience
10 8 (15.09%) Decision-Making
10 8 (15.09%) Microservices
10 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (13.21%) Fintech
11 7 (13.21%) Journey Map
11 7 (13.21%) Prompt Engineering
12 6 (11.32%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) TypeScript
3 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.43%) SQL
5 2 (3.77%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) Degree
1 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.66%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.89%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Terraform
2 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Google
2 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.77%) Facebook
3 2 (3.77%) Foundry
3 2 (3.77%) OneTrust
3 2 (3.77%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.77%) Optimizely
3 2 (3.77%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.89%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.89%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.89%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.89%) Genesys
4 1 (1.89%) Informatica
4 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow