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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 335 362
Rank change year-on-year -34 +27 +84
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 75 36 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.37% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Applications category 7.33% 3.38% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 24 13
10th Percentile £413 £326 £364
25th Percentile £525 £395 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £669 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £700 £622
England median daily rate £575 £433 £475
% change year-on-year +32.95% -8.95% -20.83%

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 1,065 860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.06% 7.85% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 677 583
10th Percentile £213 £245 £203
25th Percentile £350 £325 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +7.14% -16.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £538
90th Percentile £688 £738 £650
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 70 38
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.84 £18.87
25th Percentile £18.32 £16.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £25.56
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -1.60% -0.58%
75th Percentile £40.00 £29.03 £36.25
90th Percentile £54.50 £43.75 £52.25
England median hourly rate £22.68 £23.10 £17.00
% change year-on-year -1.82% +35.88% -32.00%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 9 £475 +18.75% 9
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 2 (2.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 22 (29.33%) Azure
2 19 (25.33%) AWS
3 9 (12.00%) Azure AI
4 6 (8.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 6 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) GitHub
4 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.33%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.33%) Miro
6 4 (5.33%) Serverless
6 4 (5.33%) WhatsApp
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.67%) Contentsquare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Power BI
1 3 (4.00%) Weaviate
2 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.67%) Metadata
2 2 (2.67%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.67%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.33%) Tableau
3 1 (1.33%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.00%) JIRA
3 5 (6.67%) JSUnit
4 2 (2.67%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.33%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (37.33%) Finance
3 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Retail
5 5 (6.67%) Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Marketing
6 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.67%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) Lead
2 8 (10.67%) Architect
2 8 (10.67%) Senior
3 7 (9.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 6 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) Designer
5 5 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.33%) Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Management Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Service Desk Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Service Management Consultant
8 2 (2.67%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Knowledge Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.67%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (2.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) LangChain
2 7 (9.33%) React
3 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
3 6 (8.00%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (8.00%) Next.js
3 6 (8.00%) Node.js
4 4 (5.33%) LangGraph
5 3 (4.00%) CrewAI
5 3 (4.00%) Playwright
6 2 (2.67%) .NET
6 2 (2.67%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.67%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.67%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.67%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.67%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.33%) JSON
7 1 (1.33%) Middleware
7 1 (1.33%) Pandas
7 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.33%) Life Science
3 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.33%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.00%) IVR
4 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 60 (80.00%) AI
3 31 (41.33%) LLM
4 27 (36.00%) Generative AI
5 24 (32.00%) Customer Experience
5 24 (32.00%) Machine Learning
6 20 (26.67%) Agile
7 16 (21.33%) Decision-Making
7 16 (21.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 16 (21.33%) Use Case
8 14 (18.67%) CI/CD
8 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.33%) Analytics
10 12 (16.00%) Conversational AI
10 12 (16.00%) User Experience
11 10 (13.33%) Data Science
11 10 (13.33%) Roadmaps
11 10 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (12.00%) Journey Map
12 9 (12.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.33%) Python
2 9 (12.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (9.33%) SQL
4 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.67%) Java
6 1 (1.33%) Bash
6 1 (1.33%) Bicep
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) Cypher
6 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.33%) R
6 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.33%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) Ansible
4 1 (1.33%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Google
2 7 (9.33%) OpenAI
3 5 (6.67%) Databricks
4 4 (5.33%) Foundry
4 4 (5.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.67%) Adobe
5 2 (2.67%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco
6 1 (1.33%) Genesys
6 1 (1.33%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.33%) Pegasus
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) UiPath