Chatbot Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Chatbots
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 151 80
Rank change year-on-year -50 -71 +146
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 14 8 121
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.24% 2.46%
As % of the Applications category 3.44% 2.81% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £423 £341 -
25th Percentile £463 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £378 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.57% - -
75th Percentile £600 £425 -
90th Percentile £641 - -
England median daily rate £513 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +28.13% -20.00% -

All Software Application Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 407 285 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 7.75% 8.62% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 168 253
10th Percentile £170 £157 £136
25th Percentile £264 £209 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £332 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.66% -5.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £497 £500
90th Percentile £613 £555 £600
England median daily rate £450 £406 £400
% change year-on-year +10.84% +1.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 38 124
10th Percentile £14.20 £18.70 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.25 £23.24 £12.84
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +59.77% -47.04%
75th Percentile £23.25 £33.75 £28.30
90th Percentile £30.45 £43.10 £43.75
England median hourly rate £19.91 £27.13 £20.58
% change year-on-year -26.60% +31.80% -41.20%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chatbot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the North of England

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Chatbot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the North of England

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
North West -28 7 £475 +18.75% 13
Yorkshire - 7 £573 - 10
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.14%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Google Gemini
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (42.86%) NoSQL
3 5 (35.71%) MySQL
3 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) DTS
4 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) Pinecone
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI
4 1 (7.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) PyCharm
3 1 (7.14%) Gatling
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Serenity BDD
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Military
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) NumPy
1 5 (35.71%) Pandas
1 5 (35.71%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.14%) A2A Protocol
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) LangChain
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Algorithms
2 4 (28.57%) Clustering
2 4 (28.57%) Online Banking
3 1 (7.14%) AI Agents
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 12 (85.71%) AI
3 9 (64.29%) Machine Learning
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 8 (57.14%) LLM
4 8 (57.14%) Natural Language Processing
5 7 (50.00%) Agile
5 7 (50.00%) Data Science
5 7 (50.00%) Data Security
5 7 (50.00%) Deep Learning
5 7 (50.00%) Microservices
6 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
6 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
6 5 (35.71%) Data Munging
6 5 (35.71%) Use Case
7 4 (28.57%) Application Security
7 4 (28.57%) Computer Vision
7 4 (28.57%) Image Processing
7 4 (28.57%) Pattern Matching
7 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CBAP
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Workday