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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 341 357
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +87
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 78 36 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.39% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Applications category 7.65% 3.38% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 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 £654 £600 £550
90th Percentile £722 £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 1,020 1,066 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 5.06% 7.84% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 678 592
10th Percentile £213 £245 £200
25th Percentile £350 £325 £300
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 72 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% -1.14%
75th Percentile £42.44 £29.07 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £43.75 £52.25
England median hourly rate £22.73 £23.10 £17.39
% change year-on-year -1.59% +32.87% -30.81%

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 6 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 6 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 -11 9 £475 +18.75% 8
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 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 22 (28.21%) Azure
2 19 (24.36%) AWS
3 9 (11.54%) Azure AI
4 6 (7.69%) Amazon Bedrock
4 6 (7.69%) GCP
4 6 (7.69%) GitHub
4 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.41%) Google Workspace
5 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (6.41%) Miro
5 5 (6.41%) WhatsApp
6 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.13%) Serverless
7 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.56%) Contentsquare
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) Power BI
1 3 (3.85%) Weaviate
2 2 (2.56%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.56%) Metadata
2 2 (2.56%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.56%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.28%) Tableau
3 1 (1.28%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) JSUnit
4 2 (2.56%) Git
5 1 (1.28%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.28%) GitLab
5 1 (1.28%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (1.28%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (38.46%) Finance
3 12 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Retail
5 5 (6.41%) Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Marketing
6 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (17.95%) Lead
2 8 (10.26%) Architect
2 8 (10.26%) Senior
3 7 (8.97%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 7 (8.97%) Designer
4 6 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.13%) Developer
7 3 (3.85%) Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Management Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.85%) Service Desk Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Service Management Consultant
8 2 (2.56%) Administrator
8 2 (2.56%) Digital Product Owner
8 2 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (2.56%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.26%) LangChain
2 7 (8.97%) React
3 6 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 6 (7.69%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (7.69%) Next.js
3 6 (7.69%) Node.js
4 4 (5.13%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.85%) CrewAI
5 3 (3.85%) Playwright
6 2 (2.56%) .NET
6 2 (2.56%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.56%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (2.56%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.56%) scikit-learn
6 2 (2.56%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.28%) JSON
7 1 (1.28%) Middleware
7 1 (1.28%) Pandas
7 1 (1.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) AI Agents
2 7 (8.97%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.13%) Life Science
3 4 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) Taxonomies
4 3 (3.85%) IVR
4 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
1 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 62 (79.49%) AI
3 32 (41.03%) LLM
4 28 (35.90%) Generative AI
5 25 (32.05%) Customer Experience
6 24 (30.77%) Machine Learning
7 20 (25.64%) Agile
8 17 (21.79%) Decision-Making
8 17 (21.79%) Use Case
9 16 (20.51%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 15 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
12 13 (16.67%) Analytics
12 13 (16.67%) Conversational AI
13 12 (15.38%) User Experience
14 11 (14.10%) Journey Map
15 10 (12.82%) Data Science
15 10 (12.82%) Roadmaps
15 10 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (12.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.36%) Python
2 9 (11.54%) TypeScript
3 7 (8.97%) SQL
4 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (1.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.28%) Bicep
6 1 (1.28%) C#
6 1 (1.28%) Cypher
6 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.28%) R
6 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.13%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Google
3 7 (8.97%) OpenAI
4 5 (6.41%) Databricks
5 4 (5.13%) Foundry
5 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.56%) Adobe
6 2 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) Genesys
7 1 (1.28%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.28%) Pegasus
7 1 (1.28%) SAP
7 1 (1.28%) UiPath