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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 159 187
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +61
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 18 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.41% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Applications category 4.38% 3.20% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £396 £356 £621
25th Percentile £410 £384 £636
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £483 £645
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -25.16% +43.33%
75th Percentile £561 £502 -
90th Percentile £578 £509 -
England median daily rate £500 £477 £576
% change year-on-year +4.93% -17.31% +12.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.29 - -
England median hourly rate £29.61 - -

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 411 250 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 9.37% 6.30% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 148 284
10th Percentile £170 £149 £150
25th Percentile £276 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £356 £300
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +18.67% -24.05%
75th Percentile £475 £494 £489
90th Percentile £538 £578 £575
England median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 61
10th Percentile £19.05 £16.85 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.64 £21.05 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.41 £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +29.05% +3.00%
75th Percentile £31.69 £42.50 £28.30
90th Percentile £63.40 £60.56 £42.50
England median hourly rate £22.63 £21.46 £25.71
% change year-on-year +5.45% -16.53% +7.13%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 -15 13 £440 -8.86% 10
Yorkshire - 4 £516 - 2
North East - 1 £563 - 1
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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (22.22%) Azure AI
3 4 (22.22%) Vertex AI
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.56%) Figma
6 1 (5.56%) Firebase
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.56%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (22.22%) Pinecone
3 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) PyCharm
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Automotive
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Agile Coach
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Customer Service Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 1 (5.56%) Junior
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) LangChain
2 4 (22.22%) CrewAI
3 3 (16.67%) Gradio
3 3 (16.67%) NumPy
3 3 (16.67%) Pandas
3 3 (16.67%) Streamlit
3 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 2 (11.11%) Faiss
4 2 (11.11%) LangGraph
4 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 2 (11.11%) React
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) D3.js
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Flutter
5 1 (5.56%) Material-UI
5 1 (5.56%) Next.js
5 1 (5.56%) PySpark
5 1 (5.56%) React Native
5 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (22.22%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (16.67%) AI Agents
3 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 3 (16.67%) IVR
4 2 (11.11%) Clustering
4 2 (11.11%) Online Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 16 (88.89%) AI
3 11 (61.11%) Machine Learning
4 9 (50.00%) LLM
5 8 (44.44%) Agile
5 8 (44.44%) Data Protection
6 6 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
6 6 (33.33%) Use Case
7 5 (27.78%) DevOps
7 5 (27.78%) Prototyping
8 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 4 (22.22%) CRM
8 4 (22.22%) Data Security
8 4 (22.22%) Memory Management
8 4 (22.22%) Microservices
8 4 (22.22%) Multi-Agent System
8 4 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 4 (22.22%) Semantic Search
8 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) MCP
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CBAP
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) PhD
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Genesys
4 1 (5.56%) Netlify
4 1 (5.56%) PayPal