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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 322 338
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 +150
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 62 27 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Applications category 6.29% 2.71% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 17
10th Percentile £400 £374 £250
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £630
90th Percentile £613 £700 £711
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

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 986 996 1,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.77% 7.85% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 646 794
10th Percentile £275 £210 £183
25th Percentile £400 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -17.95%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £725 £700
England median daily rate £450 £424 £396
% change year-on-year +6.07% +7.13% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 44 84
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.84 £12.95
25th Percentile £18.25 £19.19 £16.18
Median hourly rate £25.47 £25.91 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +23.38% -23.64%
75th Percentile £34.44 £39.52 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.45 £53.23 £56.30
England median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year -20.00% +40.45% -47.65%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -13 4 £375 -6.25% 7
West London -20 1 £400 - 4
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 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.61%) Apache
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.61%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) Figma
2 9 (14.52%) WhatsApp
3 8 (12.90%) Azure
3 8 (12.90%) Google Workspace
3 8 (12.90%) Miro
4 6 (9.68%) Amazon Bedrock
5 5 (8.06%) Serverless
6 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.84%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (4.84%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.84%) CloudFront
7 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Einstein
8 2 (3.23%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Pinecone
2 3 (4.84%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.23%) Metadata
3 2 (3.23%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 33 (53.23%) Finance
2 24 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.35%) Banking
4 9 (14.52%) Retail
5 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Front Office
7 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing
7 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Legal
8 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 11 (17.74%) Lead
2 10 (16.13%) Designer
3 6 (9.68%) Developer
4 4 (6.45%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (6.45%) Senior
4 4 (6.45%) Senior Manager
4 4 (6.45%) UX Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Development Team Leader
5 3 (4.84%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Digital Transformation
5 3 (4.84%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Product Manager
5 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.84%) Software Development Team Leader
5 3 (4.84%) Software Team Leader
5 3 (4.84%) Team Leader
6 2 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (3.23%) Service Desk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) AngularJS
1 7 (11.29%) React
1 7 (11.29%) Vue
1 7 (11.29%) WebSockets
2 4 (6.45%) D3.js
2 4 (6.45%) Highcharts JS
2 4 (6.45%) Kafka
2 4 (6.45%) Plotly
3 3 (4.84%) boto
3 3 (4.84%) CSS
3 3 (4.84%) HTML
3 3 (4.84%) LangGraph
3 3 (4.84%) Model Context Protocol
3 3 (4.84%) Node.js
3 3 (4.84%) OAuth
4 2 (3.23%) Faiss
4 2 (3.23%) LangChain
4 2 (3.23%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (3.23%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) AI Agents
2 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
3 7 (11.29%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.45%) Spread Betting
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.23%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.61%) Robotics
6 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 55 (88.71%) AI
3 24 (38.71%) Generative AI
4 21 (33.87%) Agile
4 21 (33.87%) LLM
5 18 (29.03%) Journey Map
5 18 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (27.42%) Customer Experience
6 17 (27.42%) Decision-Making
6 17 (27.42%) User Experience
7 16 (25.81%) Machine Learning
8 15 (24.19%) Conversational AI
9 14 (22.58%) Use Case
10 12 (19.35%) Visualisation
11 11 (17.74%) Analytics
11 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (16.13%) Prompt Engineering
12 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (16.13%) UX Design
13 9 (14.52%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) Python
2 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
3 4 (6.45%) SQL
4 3 (4.84%) Java
4 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.61%) C#
5 1 (1.61%) R
5 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Google
2 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.84%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.23%) Facebook
4 2 (3.23%) Foundry
5 1 (1.61%) Adobe
5 1 (1.61%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.61%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.61%) Genesys
5 1 (1.61%) Informatica
5 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.61%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.61%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.61%) SAP