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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 158 194
Rank change year-on-year -18 +36 +64
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 14 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.35% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Applications category 3.71% 2.64% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £368 £356 £621
25th Percentile £406 £384 £636
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £483 £645
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% -25.16% +43.33%
75th Percentile £553 £502 -
90th Percentile £571 £509 -
England median daily rate £450 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +5.88% -29.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.29 - -
England median hourly rate £30.29 - £103.50

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 377 227 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 9.42% 5.47% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 132 278
10th Percentile £184 £163 £153
25th Percentile £277 £210 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £377 £350
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% +7.57% -11.39%
75th Percentile £475 £508 £500
90th Percentile £539 £580 £587
England median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 51
10th Percentile £18.10 £17.45 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £18.50 £17.38
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £20.70
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +57.00% +3.50%
75th Percentile £35.50 £55.79 £28.39
90th Percentile £63.40 £66.83 £43.75
England median hourly rate £24.81 £17.00 £24.25
% change year-on-year +45.94% -29.90% +7.78%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -3 11 £413 -14.55% 34
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 30
North East - 1 £563 - 7
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (28.57%) Azure AI
2 4 (28.57%) Vertex AI
3 2 (14.29%) Figma
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) Firebase
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Pinecone
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Designer
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Coach
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) LangChain
2 4 (28.57%) CrewAI
3 3 (21.43%) Gradio
3 3 (21.43%) Streamlit
4 2 (14.29%) Faiss
4 2 (14.29%) LangGraph
5 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.14%) D3.js
5 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 1 (7.14%) Flask
5 1 (7.14%) Flutter
5 1 (7.14%) JSON
5 1 (7.14%) Material-UI
5 1 (7.14%) Next.js
5 1 (7.14%) Node.js
5 1 (7.14%) PySpark
5 1 (7.14%) React
5 1 (7.14%) React Native
5 1 (7.14%) RESTful
5 1 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (28.57%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (21.43%) AI Agents
3 3 (21.43%) IVR
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 13 (92.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 7 (50.00%) LLM
3 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (35.71%) Use Case
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Memory Management
5 4 (28.57%) Multi-Agent System
5 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (28.57%) Semantic Search
6 3 (21.43%) API Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) CRM
6 3 (21.43%) Observability
6 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) User Experience
6 3 (21.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) MCP
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CBAP
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) OpenAI
4 1 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Genesys
4 1 (7.14%) Netlify
4 1 (7.14%) PayPal