Chatbot Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Chatbots
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 5 0 23
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.56% - 5.15%
As % of the Applications category 6.58% - 51.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £505 - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £516 - -

All Software Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 76 31 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 8.54% 11.31% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 22 17
10th Percentile £298 £149 £150
25th Percentile £343 £208 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £231 £561
Median % change year-on-year +76.66% -58.87% +18.11%
75th Percentile £500 £502 £587
90th Percentile £542 £547 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £399 £300 £400
% change year-on-year +32.92% -25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £12.63
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £12.75
Median % change year-on-year - +26.98% -
75th Percentile - £17.16 £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £27.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -48.18% +83.33% -44.95%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chatbot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Chatbot job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Sheffield - 4 £516 - 4
Chatbot
Yorkshire

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) PyCharm
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) NumPy
1 5 (100.00%) Pandas
1 5 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Data Security
1 5 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Application Security
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Vision
2 4 (80.00%) Image Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Pattern Matching
2 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) LLM
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared