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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 326 377
Rank change year-on-year -32 +51 +75
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 77 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Applications category 7.73% 3.45% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 20
10th Percentile £409 £333 £351
25th Percentile £503 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £596 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £638
England median daily rate £575 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +35.29% -12.82% -7.14%

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 996 1,044 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.00% 7.66% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 653 668
10th Percentile £240 £244 £190
25th Percentile £359 £329 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £421
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +6.82% -14.90%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £540
90th Percentile £675 £738 £650
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 69 59
10th Percentile £16.79 £15.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.03 £16.50 £18.81
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% +14.32% -14.43%
75th Percentile £45.84 £33.75 £34.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £49.24 £57.50
England median hourly rate £23.11 £25.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.56% +42.86% -31.93%

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 19 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 19 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 -6 9 £475 +18.75% 2
West London - 3 £600 - 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 (2.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.30%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.30%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.68%) AWS
2 18 (23.38%) Azure
3 9 (11.69%) Azure AI
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon Bedrock
4 8 (10.39%) Google Workspace
4 8 (10.39%) Miro
5 7 (9.09%) WhatsApp
6 5 (6.49%) GCP
6 5 (6.49%) GitHub
6 5 (6.49%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.19%) Figma
7 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (3.90%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.60%) Contentsquare
9 2 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.60%) Metadata
2 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) Pinecone
2 2 (2.60%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.30%) Power BI
3 1 (1.30%) Tableau
3 1 (1.30%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) JSUnit
3 2 (2.60%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Claude Code
General
1 32 (41.56%) Finance
2 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Retail
5 5 (6.49%) Banking
6 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.90%) Marketing
8 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Law
9 1 (1.30%) Legal
9 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) Lead
2 10 (12.99%) Designer
3 7 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (9.09%) Senior
4 6 (7.79%) Architect
4 6 (7.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (6.49%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.19%) Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Management Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Service Desk Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Service Management Consultant
8 2 (2.60%) Administrator
8 2 (2.60%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Development Team Leader
8 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Knowledge Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Software Development Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) LangChain
1 7 (9.09%) React
2 6 (7.79%) GraphQL
2 6 (7.79%) Next.js
2 6 (7.79%) Node.js
3 5 (6.49%) LlamaIndex
4 4 (5.19%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.90%) Playwright
6 2 (2.60%) CrewAI
6 2 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.60%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.30%) .NET
7 1 (1.30%) A2A Protocol
7 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.30%) Pandas
7 1 (1.30%) pgvector
7 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) AI Agents
2 9 (11.69%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.19%) Taxonomies
4 3 (3.90%) Life Science
4 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.60%) IVR
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
1 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 61 (79.22%) AI
3 30 (38.96%) Generative AI
4 29 (37.66%) LLM
5 26 (33.77%) Customer Experience
6 24 (31.17%) Machine Learning
7 19 (24.68%) Agile
7 19 (24.68%) Decision-Making
8 18 (23.38%) Use Case
9 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (19.48%) Journey Map
10 15 (19.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 13 (16.88%) User Experience
12 12 (15.58%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (14.29%) Analytics
13 11 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (14.29%) Conversational AI
14 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
15 9 (11.69%) Visualisation
16 8 (10.39%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.68%) Python
2 10 (12.99%) TypeScript
3 7 (9.09%) SQL
4 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.30%) Bash
5 1 (1.30%) Java
5 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.30%) R
5 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.60%) Terraform
4 1 (1.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) Google
3 6 (7.79%) Foundry
3 6 (7.79%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe
5 2 (2.60%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.60%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) Pegasus