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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 332 371
Rank change year-on-year -50 +39 +53
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 72 35 18
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Applications category 7.04% 3.31% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 22 12
10th Percentile £448 £325 £363
25th Percentile £525 £389 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +20.00% -27.08%
75th Percentile £700 £583 £514
90th Percentile £825 £699 £549
England median daily rate £575 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +24.32% +2.78% -25.00%

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 1,023 1,059 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.03% 7.90% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 676 582
10th Percentile £213 £250 £213
25th Percentile £350 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £540
90th Percentile £688 £733 £668
England median daily rate £450 £425 £409
% change year-on-year +5.88% +3.98% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 64 31
10th Percentile £16.34 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.36 £19.31 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.15 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -2.48% +0.31%
75th Percentile £33.44 £30.52 £31.63
90th Percentile £53.50 £42.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £19.98 £25.00 £16.44
% change year-on-year -20.10% +52.07% -27.74%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -19 9 £500 +2.56% 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 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.39%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.33%) Azure
2 21 (29.17%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 8 (11.11%) GCP
4 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (8.33%) GitHub
7 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.56%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Serverless
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.78%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.78%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Power BI
2 4 (5.56%) Neo4j
3 3 (4.17%) Tableau
3 3 (4.17%) Weaviate
4 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.78%) Milvus
4 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.78%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) JSUnit
3 4 (5.56%) Git
4 2 (2.78%) Postman
5 1 (1.39%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.39%) GitLab
5 1 (1.39%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (1.39%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (33.33%) Finance
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Retail
5 3 (4.17%) Marketing
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (12.50%) Lead
2 8 (11.11%) Architect
2 8 (11.11%) Senior
3 7 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 6 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.56%) Designer
6 4 (5.56%) Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Management Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (2.78%) Service Desk Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) Service Management Consultant
8 2 (2.78%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.39%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 8 (11.11%) LangChain
2 7 (9.72%) React
3 6 (8.33%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (8.33%) Next.js
3 6 (8.33%) Node.js
4 4 (5.56%) LangGraph
5 3 (4.17%) CrewAI
5 3 (4.17%) Playwright
5 3 (4.17%) REST
5 3 (4.17%) Terraform
6 2 (2.78%) .NET
6 2 (2.78%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.78%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.78%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.78%) Qwen
6 2 (2.78%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.78%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.39%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (1.39%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.33%) Life Science
3 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.17%) IVR
4 3 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.17%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.78%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
1 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 59 (81.94%) AI
3 30 (41.67%) LLM
4 25 (34.72%) Generative AI
4 25 (34.72%) Machine Learning
5 20 (27.78%) Agile
6 19 (26.39%) Customer Experience
7 15 (20.83%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 14 (19.44%) Analytics
8 14 (19.44%) CI/CD
9 12 (16.67%) Conversational AI
9 12 (16.67%) Use Case
9 12 (16.67%) User Experience
10 11 (15.28%) Decision-Making
10 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (13.89%) Data Science
11 10 (13.89%) Roadmaps
12 9 (12.50%) Prompt Engineering
12 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (11.11%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Python
2 9 (12.50%) SQL
2 9 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) Cypher
5 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.78%) Java
6 1 (1.39%) Bash
6 1 (1.39%) Bicep
6 1 (1.39%) C#
6 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.39%) R
6 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.78%) PMP
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.50%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.94%) Databricks
3 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.56%) Foundry
5 3 (4.17%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) Adobe
6 2 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco
7 1 (1.39%) Genesys
7 1 (1.39%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.39%) Pegasus
7 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (1.39%) UiPath