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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 160 72
Rank change year-on-year -53 -88 +147
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 17 6 123
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.29% 0.19% 2.53%
As % of the Applications category 4.20% 1.99% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £459 £340 -
25th Percentile £463 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.81% - -
75th Percentile £584 £425 -
90th Percentile £641 - -
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%

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 405 301 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 7.02% 9.44% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 169 219
10th Percentile £199 £163 £139
25th Percentile £298 £225 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £358 £396
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -9.60% +2.19%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £617 £575 £613
England median daily rate £450 £423 £400
% change year-on-year +6.51% +5.63% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 40 168
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.88 £11.77
Median hourly rate £21.50 £27.13 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +68.90% -57.17%
75th Percentile £25.94 £33.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £39.73 £38.65 £43.85
England median hourly rate £19.91 £27.13 £18.80
% change year-on-year -26.60% +44.32% -49.54%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -34 9 £475 +18.75% 14
Yorkshire - 8 £573 - 8
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 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) GitHub
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
2 2 (11.76%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
3 1 (5.88%) Google Gemini
3 1 (5.88%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Relational Database
2 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 5 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) DTS
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
3 1 (5.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) PyCharm
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Gatling
4 1 (5.88%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Service Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Digital User Researcher
4 1 (5.88%) HR Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) User Researcher
4 1 (5.88%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) NumPy
1 5 (29.41%) Pandas
1 5 (29.41%) TensorFlow
2 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.88%) A2A Protocol
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) Playwright
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) Online Banking
3 3 (17.65%) AI Agents
4 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 13 (76.47%) AI
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Data Science
4 7 (41.18%) Deep Learning
4 7 (41.18%) Machine Learning
4 7 (41.18%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Natural Language Processing
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Data Security
5 6 (35.29%) LLM
6 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
6 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 5 (29.41%) Data Munging
7 4 (23.53%) Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Computer Vision
7 4 (23.53%) Image Processing
7 4 (23.53%) Pattern Matching
7 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
7 4 (23.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Workday