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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 342 349
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +150
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 50 14 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Applications category 5.08% 1.53% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 11
10th Percentile £313 £279 £375
25th Percentile £400 £353 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £600
90th Percentile £619 £684 £675
England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

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 985 914 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 6.89% 6.58% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 573 846
10th Percentile £257 £200 £190
25th Percentile £359 £310 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
England median daily rate £450 £406 £400
% change year-on-year +10.84% +1.50% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 55
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.28 £14.22
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +16.28% -8.51%
75th Percentile £27.83 £35.00 £36.14
90th Percentile £35.00 £42.50 £43.82
England median hourly rate £19.91 £25.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -21.15% +14.77% -33.33%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +2 2 £400 -40.74% 3
West London -16 1 £400 - 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 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) AWS
2 9 (18.00%) Serverless
3 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (12.00%) Azure
3 6 (12.00%) Figma
4 5 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (6.00%) CloudFront
6 3 (6.00%) GCP
6 3 (6.00%) Google Analytics
6 3 (6.00%) WhatsApp
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.00%) Commercetools
7 2 (4.00%) Contentful
7 2 (4.00%) Dialogflow
7 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.00%) Salesforce Einstein
7 2 (4.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Internet
1 1 (2.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Pinecone
2 3 (6.00%) CockroachDB
3 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Weaviate
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) MLflow
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (28.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Marketing
5 4 (8.00%) Front Office
6 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (4.00%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Front Office Developer
4 4 (8.00%) Product Manager
4 4 (8.00%) UX Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Architect
5 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Data Scientist
5 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) Designer
6 2 (4.00%) Gen AI Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) JavaScript Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Migration Specialist
6 2 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.00%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (4.00%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) React
2 7 (14.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (14.00%) Node.js
2 7 (14.00%) Vue
2 7 (14.00%) WebSockets
3 4 (8.00%) D3.js
3 4 (8.00%) FastAPI
3 4 (8.00%) Highcharts JS
3 4 (8.00%) Kafka
3 4 (8.00%) LangGraph
3 4 (8.00%) Plotly
4 3 (6.00%) boto
4 3 (6.00%) CSS
4 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.00%) HTML
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth
5 2 (4.00%) Middleware
5 2 (4.00%) NumPy
5 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.00%) AI Agents
3 5 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (8.00%) Spread Betting
5 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (4.00%) Social Media
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.00%) IVR
6 1 (2.00%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) RIA
6 1 (2.00%) Robotics
6 1 (2.00%) Sports Betting
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 46 (92.00%) AI
3 27 (54.00%) Agile
4 19 (38.00%) Machine Learning
5 17 (34.00%) Generative AI
6 15 (30.00%) Analytics
7 14 (28.00%) LLM
8 13 (26.00%) User Experience
9 12 (24.00%) Conversational AI
9 12 (24.00%) Data Science
10 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.00%) Microservices
11 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
12 7 (14.00%) Customer Experience
12 7 (14.00%) Fintech
12 7 (14.00%) Prompt Engineering
13 6 (12.00%) Front End Development
13 6 (12.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
13 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) MCP
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
3 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.00%) QA
4 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.00%) Google
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.00%) Facebook
4 2 (4.00%) OneTrust
4 2 (4.00%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Amplitude
5 1 (2.00%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Dataiku
5 1 (2.00%) DataRobot
5 1 (2.00%) Genesys
5 1 (2.00%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Zoho