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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 324 346
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 +129
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 58 27 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Applications category 5.99% 2.72% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 18
10th Percentile £363 £320 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £630
90th Percentile £613 £758 £711
England median daily rate £540 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +27.06% -15.00% +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 969 994 1,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.47% 7.92% 6.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 627 766
10th Percentile £275 £213 £188
25th Percentile £384 £314 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £738 £712
England median daily rate £450 £423 £400
% change year-on-year +6.38% +5.75% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 86
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.84 £13.09
25th Percentile £20.87 £16.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.25 £24.66 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +17.43% -34.21%
75th Percentile £38.62 £34.51 £27.25
90th Percentile £49.38 £52.18 £51.75
England median hourly rate £20.35 £24.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -16.61% +39.44% -53.33%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -10 5 £375 -6.25% 3
West London -18 1 £400 - 5
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 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.72%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.72%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) AWS
1 9 (15.52%) Azure
1 9 (15.52%) Figma
2 8 (13.79%) Google Workspace
2 8 (13.79%) Miro
3 7 (12.07%) WhatsApp
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon Bedrock
5 5 (8.62%) Serverless
6 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
7 3 (5.17%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (5.17%) CloudFront
7 3 (5.17%) GCP
7 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.45%) Contentsquare
8 2 (3.45%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Pinecone
2 3 (5.17%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.45%) Metadata
3 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 2 (3.45%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.72%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
1 3 (5.17%) JIRA
General
1 29 (50.00%) Finance
2 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Retail
4 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Marketing
5 2 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Front Office
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 11 (18.97%) Lead
2 10 (17.24%) Designer
3 3 (5.17%) Consultant
3 3 (5.17%) Developer
3 3 (5.17%) Development Team Leader
3 3 (5.17%) Management Consultant
3 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
3 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Consultant
3 3 (5.17%) Service Management Consultant
3 3 (5.17%) Software Development Team Leader
3 3 (5.17%) Software Team Leader
3 3 (5.17%) Team Leader
4 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Data Scientist
4 2 (3.45%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (3.45%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (3.45%) Digital Transformation
4 2 (3.45%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
4 2 (3.45%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
1 5 (8.62%) React
2 4 (6.90%) LangGraph
2 4 (6.90%) Model Context Protocol
2 4 (6.90%) Vue
2 4 (6.90%) WebSockets
3 3 (5.17%) boto
3 3 (5.17%) CSS
3 3 (5.17%) HTML
3 3 (5.17%) LangChain
3 3 (5.17%) OAuth
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) Faiss
4 2 (3.45%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (3.45%) Node.js
5 1 (1.72%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (1.72%) Highcharts JS
5 1 (1.72%) pgvector
5 1 (1.72%) Plotly
5 1 (1.72%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.24%) AI Agents
2 8 (13.79%) Virtual Team
3 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.45%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.72%) Robotics
5 1 (1.72%) Social Media
5 1 (1.72%) Spread Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 50 (86.21%) AI
3 22 (37.93%) Generative AI
3 22 (37.93%) LLM
4 18 (31.03%) Journey Map
5 16 (27.59%) Decision-Making
6 15 (25.86%) Customer Experience
6 15 (25.86%) User Experience
7 14 (24.14%) Machine Learning
7 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (24.14%) Use Case
8 13 (22.41%) Agile
9 11 (18.97%) Analytics
9 11 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (18.97%) Conversational AI
9 11 (18.97%) Prompt Engineering
10 10 (17.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 10 (17.24%) UX Design
10 10 (17.24%) Visualisation
10 10 (17.24%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) Python
2 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
3 4 (6.90%) SQL
4 3 (5.17%) Java
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) PMO
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.45%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Google
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Adobe
5 2 (3.45%) Foundry
6 1 (1.72%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.72%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.72%) Informatica
6 1 (1.72%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.72%) Pegasus
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) SAP