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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 316 366
Rank change year-on-year -23 +50 +96
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 77 34 38
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Applications category 7.94% 3.51% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 21 19
10th Percentile £400 £325 £340
25th Percentile £481 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £646
England median daily rate £575 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +27.78% -6.49% -3.75%

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 970 969 1,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.07% 7.63% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 604 689
10th Percentile £259 £227 £189
25th Percentile £363 £318 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -14.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £557
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
England median daily rate £450 £416 £400
% change year-on-year +8.09% +4.08% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 61 82
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.84 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.89 £16.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £25.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% +14.94% -15.40%
75th Percentile £48.75 £33.75 £27.78
90th Percentile £55.50 £51.18 £53.15
England median hourly rate £22.68 £25.08 £16.23
% change year-on-year -9.57% +54.53% -38.71%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -18 7 £475 - 5
West London - 4 £588 - 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
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 16 (20.78%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) Amazon Bedrock
3 8 (10.39%) Azure AI
3 8 (10.39%) Google Workspace
3 8 (10.39%) Miro
4 7 (9.09%) WhatsApp
5 6 (7.79%) Figma
6 5 (6.49%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.19%) GCP
7 4 (5.19%) GitHub
8 2 (2.60%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.60%) Contentsquare
8 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
1 3 (3.90%) Pinecone
2 2 (2.60%) Metadata
2 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.60%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.30%) CockroachDB
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 25 (32.47%) 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 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Lead
2 11 (14.29%) 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%) Development Team Leader
7 3 (3.90%) Management Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Service Desk Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Service Management Consultant
7 3 (3.90%) Software Development Team Leader
7 3 (3.90%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (3.90%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Knowledge Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) React
2 7 (9.09%) LangChain
3 6 (7.79%) GraphQL
3 6 (7.79%) Next.js
3 6 (7.79%) Node.js
4 5 (6.49%) LlamaIndex
5 4 (5.19%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.90%) Playwright
7 2 (2.60%) .NET
7 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.60%) CrewAI
7 2 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.60%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.30%) CSS
8 1 (1.30%) OAuth
8 1 (1.30%) pgvector
8 1 (1.30%) Vue
8 1 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) 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%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.30%) Robotics
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 23 (29.87%) Machine Learning
7 20 (25.97%) Decision-Making
8 19 (24.68%) Agile
9 17 (22.08%) Use Case
10 16 (20.78%) Journey Map
10 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (19.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 14 (18.18%) User Experience
13 12 (15.58%) Conversational AI
13 12 (15.58%) Workshop Facilitation
14 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
15 10 (12.99%) Analytics
15 10 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (11.69%) Prompt Engineering
16 9 (11.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Python
2 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
3 7 (9.09%) SQL
4 3 (3.90%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.30%) C#
5 1 (1.30%) Java
5 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
3 3 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
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 3 (3.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.30%) Istio
4 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) Google
3 6 (7.79%) Foundry
4 5 (6.49%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.60%) Adobe
6 2 (2.60%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.60%) Databricks
6 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.30%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.30%) Pegasus