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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 335 342
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +152
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 63 21 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Applications category 6.49% 2.26% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 16 17
10th Percentile £370 £294 £325
25th Percentile £406 £392 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -3.45%
75th Percentile £569 £622 £630
90th Percentile £613 £669 £711
England median daily rate £508 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +26.88% -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 970 930 1,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 6.24% 6.94% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 575 875
10th Percentile £275 £200 £188
25th Percentile £385 £313 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £675 £684 £723
England median daily rate £450 £404 £400
% change year-on-year +11.52% +0.88% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 30 72
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.78 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £15.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.21 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +44.64% -20.41%
75th Percentile £32.72 £35.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £46.75 £51.26 £53.40
England median hourly rate £19.91 £27.50 £20.89
% change year-on-year -27.60% +31.67% -40.33%

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 23 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 23 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 -6 2 £400 -25.58% 4
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 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.17%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (1.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.22%) AWS
2 9 (14.29%) Figma
2 9 (14.29%) WhatsApp
3 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 8 (12.70%) Google Workspace
3 8 (12.70%) Miro
3 8 (12.70%) Serverless
4 6 (9.52%) Amazon Bedrock
4 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.94%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.76%) CloudFront
7 3 (4.76%) GCP
7 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (3.17%) Google Analytics
8 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Pinecone
2 3 (4.76%) CockroachDB
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.17%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) MLflow
General
1 30 (47.62%) Finance
2 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 15 (23.81%) Banking
4 9 (14.29%) Retail
5 4 (6.35%) Front Office
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Developer
1 10 (15.87%) Lead
2 8 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Designer
5 4 (6.35%) Front Office Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Product Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.35%) UX Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Data Scientist
6 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Development Team Leader
7 2 (3.17%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) React
2 7 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 7 (11.11%) Vue
2 7 (11.11%) WebSockets
3 6 (9.52%) Node.js
4 4 (6.35%) D3.js
4 4 (6.35%) FastAPI
4 4 (6.35%) Highcharts JS
4 4 (6.35%) Kafka
4 4 (6.35%) Plotly
5 3 (4.76%) boto
5 3 (4.76%) CSS
5 3 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.76%) HTML
5 3 (4.76%) LangGraph
5 3 (4.76%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth
6 2 (3.17%) Middleware
6 2 (3.17%) RESTful
6 2 (3.17%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Product Ownership
2 10 (15.87%) AI Agents
3 8 (12.70%) Virtual Team
4 5 (7.94%) Mobile App
5 4 (6.35%) Spread Betting
6 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.59%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.59%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.59%) RIA
7 1 (1.59%) Robotics
7 1 (1.59%) Social Media
7 1 (1.59%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 52 (82.54%) AI
3 25 (39.68%) Agile
4 22 (34.92%) Generative AI
5 19 (30.16%) Machine Learning
6 16 (25.40%) LLM
6 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.22%) Customer Experience
7 14 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 13 (20.63%) Conversational AI
8 13 (20.63%) Journey Map
9 12 (19.05%) Analytics
9 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (19.05%) Data Science
9 12 (19.05%) User Experience
9 12 (19.05%) Visualisation
10 11 (17.46%) E-Commerce
10 11 (17.46%) Use Case
11 9 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
12 8 (12.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.94%) SQL
5 2 (3.17%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.17%) Degree
1 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Google
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.17%) Facebook
3 2 (3.17%) Foundry
3 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.59%) Amplitude
4 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.59%) Databricks
4 1 (1.59%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.59%) DataRobot
4 1 (1.59%) Genesys
4 1 (1.59%) Informatica
4 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.59%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.59%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.59%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow