Chatbot Contracts in the South East

Chatbots
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Chatbot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chatbot over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 5 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% - 0.21%
As % of the Applications category 2.33% - 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £249 - £412
25th Percentile £350 - £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
75th Percentile £488 - £738
90th Percentile £540 - £815
England median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £101.75
Median hourly rate - - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £103.50
% change year-on-year - - +505.09%

All Software Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 215 416 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.14% 7.48% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 205 326
10th Percentile £150 £134 £186
25th Percentile £225 £200 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £275 £375
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -26.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £513 £465 £500
90th Percentile £600 £573 £618
England median daily rate £423 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 82 51
10th Percentile £14.06 £11.71 £17.72
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.41 £20.85
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -45.82% +65.64%
75th Percentile £32.05 £26.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £61.50 £45.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chatbot in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Chatbot in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley - 4 £400 -
Berkshire - 2 £266 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 -
East Sussex - 1 £475 - 1
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (40.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) Parceljs
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) FHIR
2 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) Order Management
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) UX Design
4 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Nexthink
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI