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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 158 123
Rank change year-on-year -33 -35 +108
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 15 8 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.31% 0.23% 1.37%
As % of the Applications category 3.63% 2.96% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £406 £356 £621
25th Percentile £421 £384 £636
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £645
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -25.16% +35.79%
75th Percentile £531 £502 -
90th Percentile £600 £509 -
England median daily rate £500 £483 £538
% change year-on-year +3.57% -10.19% +7.50%

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 413 270 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 8.65% 7.64% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 161 259
10th Percentile £170 £156 £148
25th Percentile £267 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £333 £275
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% +21.09% -31.25%
75th Percentile £486 £500 £488
90th Percentile £550 £588 £575
England median daily rate £447 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.50% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 59
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.20 £13.07
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +33.62% -6.45%
75th Percentile £23.75 £33.75 £28.30
90th Percentile £33.55 £43.30 £49.20
England median hourly rate £20.26 £25.18 £28.30
% change year-on-year -19.56% -11.02% +3.85%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 -21 10 £463 -4.19% 14
Yorkshire - 5 £516 - 13
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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) CMS
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure AI
4 2 (13.33%) Vertex AI
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.67%) Firebase
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.67%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 5 (33.33%) MySQL
3 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (13.33%) Pinecone
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) DTS
5 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Automotive
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Customer Service Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) HR Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) NumPy
1 5 (33.33%) Pandas
1 5 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 3 (20.00%) LangChain
3 2 (13.33%) CrewAI
3 2 (13.33%) Gradio
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Streamlit
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) D3.js
4 1 (6.67%) Faiss
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.67%) PySpark
4 1 (6.67%) React Native
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (26.67%) Clustering
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (26.67%) Online Banking
3 2 (13.33%) AI Agents
3 2 (13.33%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 13 (86.67%) AI
3 12 (80.00%) Machine Learning
4 10 (66.67%) LLM
5 8 (53.33%) Agile
5 8 (53.33%) Natural Language Processing
6 7 (46.67%) Data Science
6 7 (46.67%) Deep Learning
6 7 (46.67%) DevOps
6 7 (46.67%) Use Case
7 6 (40.00%) Data Security
7 6 (40.00%) Microservices
8 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
8 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 5 (33.33%) Data Munging
8 5 (33.33%) Prototyping
9 4 (26.67%) Computer Vision
9 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
9 4 (26.67%) Image Processing
9 4 (26.67%) Pattern Matching
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) MCP
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CBAP
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Netlify
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Workday