Chatbot Contracts in the Thames Valley

Chatbots
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% - 0.14%
As % of the Applications category 3.39% - 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £232 - £425
25th Percentile £308 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £500
75th Percentile £500 - £600
90th Percentile £545 - £645
South East median daily rate £450 - £500

All Software Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 118 273 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.81% 10.16% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 156 175
10th Percentile £152 £133 £193
25th Percentile £214 £185 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £215 £400
Median % change year-on-year +94.77% -46.25% +5.57%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £510
90th Percentile £604 £531 £625
South East median daily rate £413 £275 £375
% change year-on-year +50.00% -26.67% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 14
10th Percentile £13.75 £11.79 £14.42
25th Percentile - £15.85 £18.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £22.90 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.98% -8.41% +132.13%
75th Percentile £32.05 £43.75 £29.77
90th Percentile £50.78 £61.55 £32.30
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +8.57% -45.82% +65.64%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot in the Thames Valley

Chatbot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chatbot in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Chatbot in the Thames Valley

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the Thames Valley

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 2 £266 - 3
Buckinghamshire - 2 £500 -
Chatbot
South East

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Parceljs
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) FHIR
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (50.00%) ERP
3 2 (50.00%) Order Management
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) UX Design
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Conversational AI
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) QMS
4 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Nexthink
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow