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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 170 155
Rank change year-on-year -80 -15 +35
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 5 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.066% 0.37% 0.14%
As % of the Applications category 1.32% 3.84% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £453 £377 £356
25th Percentile £531 £406 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £483 £483
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% -0.05% -25.16%
75th Percentile £688 £570 £502
90th Percentile - £583 £509
England median daily rate £575 £500 £438
% change year-on-year +15.00% +14.29% -27.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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 379 391 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 5.00% 9.60% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 240 140
10th Percentile £200 £186 £147
25th Percentile £312 £277 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £403 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% +7.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £551 £481 £500
90th Percentile £696 £538 £577
England median daily rate £445 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 38 29
10th Percentile £13.10 £19.01 £17.95
25th Percentile £14.06 £20.23 £21.25
Median hourly rate £17.60 £22.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.25% -30.37% +55.17%
75th Percentile £29.50 £35.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £48.75 £63.40 £66.83
England median hourly rate £18.18 £25.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -27.29% +38.89% -29.99%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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
Yorkshire -34 2 £675 +28.57% 7
North West -54 2 - - 27
North East -38 1 £400 -28.89% 7
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (20.00%) IVR
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (60.00%) ITSM
3 3 (60.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) AI Transformation
4 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Discovery
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Workflow
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
5 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Release Train
5 1 (20.00%) Text Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAI