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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 316 376
Rank change year-on-year -67 +60 +34
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 63 46 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.34% 0.12%
As % of the Applications category 6.08% 4.46% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 13
10th Percentile £425 £325 £363
25th Percentile £476 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.80% +17.65% -29.17%
75th Percentile £715 £575 £506
90th Percentile £825 £674 £548
England median daily rate £575 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +15.00% +14.29% -27.08%

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 1,037 1,032 900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.12% 7.64% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 655 559
10th Percentile £213 £240 £213
25th Percentile £350 £318 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £426
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.63% -10.32%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £445 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 62 25
10th Percentile £15.74 £16.50 £17.20
25th Percentile £16.96 £20.24 £22.00
Median hourly rate £20.27 £25.15 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -6.75% +4.90%
75th Percentile £38.44 £27.83 £34.75
90th Percentile £52.50 £35.00 £41.25
England median hourly rate £18.50 £25.01 £18.00
% change year-on-year -26.01% +38.92% -29.99%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -20 7 £500 +2.56% 7
West London - 3 £600 - 3
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 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.59%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 20 (31.75%) AWS
3 10 (15.87%) Azure AI
4 7 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 7 (11.11%) GCP
4 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 6 (9.52%) GitHub
5 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (7.94%) Anthropic Claude
6 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.94%) Serverless
7 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.76%) Figma
8 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.76%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Neo4j
3 3 (4.76%) Tableau
3 3 (4.76%) Weaviate
4 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.17%) Milvus
4 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.17%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.59%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) JSUnit
3 4 (6.35%) Git
3 4 (6.35%) JIRA
4 2 (3.17%) Postman
5 1 (1.59%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.59%) GitLab
5 1 (1.59%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (31.75%) Finance
2 17 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.59%) Back Office
8 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (14.29%) Architect
2 8 (12.70%) Senior
3 7 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (7.94%) Developer
5 4 (6.35%) Data Scientist
6 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Designer
7 2 (3.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (3.17%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 8 (12.70%) React
3 7 (11.11%) LangChain
3 7 (11.11%) Next.js
4 6 (9.52%) LlamaIndex
4 6 (9.52%) Node.js
5 4 (6.35%) LangGraph
5 4 (6.35%) REST
6 3 (4.76%) CrewAI
6 3 (4.76%) Playwright
6 3 (4.76%) Terraform
7 2 (3.17%) .NET
7 2 (3.17%) Hugging Face
7 2 (3.17%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (3.17%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.17%) Qwen
7 2 (3.17%) scikit-learn
7 2 (3.17%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.59%) A2A Protocol
8 1 (1.59%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) AI Agents
2 6 (9.52%) Life Science
3 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.76%) IVR
4 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.17%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.59%) Robotics
6 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
1 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 50 (79.37%) AI
3 27 (42.86%) LLM
4 23 (36.51%) Machine Learning
5 21 (33.33%) Generative AI
6 16 (25.40%) Agile
6 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
6 16 (25.40%) Customer Experience
7 15 (23.81%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 12 (19.05%) Analytics
9 11 (17.46%) Conversational AI
9 11 (17.46%) Use Case
10 9 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
10 9 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 8 (12.70%) Data Science
11 8 (12.70%) DevOps
11 8 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.70%) User Experience
12 7 (11.11%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.16%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
3 8 (12.70%) SQL
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.76%) Cypher
6 2 (3.17%) C#
6 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) Bicep
7 1 (1.59%) Java
7 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.17%) PMP
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.59%) NCSC
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) OpenAI
3 6 (9.52%) Foundry
4 5 (7.94%) Databricks
5 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.17%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.17%) Google
7 1 (1.59%) Adobe
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Genesys
7 1 (1.59%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.59%) Pegasus
7 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.59%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) UiPath