Chatbot Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Chatbots
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 112 125
Rank change year-on-year -36 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.12% 0.045%
As % of the Applications category 3.80% 1.55% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £355 -
25th Percentile £400 £363 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -34.78% -
75th Percentile £455 £388 £588
90th Percentile £463 £395 -
South East median daily rate £438 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +16.67% -6.25% -44.92%

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 184 129 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.94% 7.88% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 56 103
10th Percentile £278 £151 £161
25th Percentile £349 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +6.99%
75th Percentile £574 £482 £510
90th Percentile £610 £613 £638
South East median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - +7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 9
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.55 £19.25
25th Percentile £15.00 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £17.73 £14.20 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -53.93% +64.40%
75th Percentile £40.00 £15.38 £62.56
90th Percentile £86.80 £32.05 £63.41
South East median hourly rate £16.00 £15.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.92% -56.43% +75.00%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chatbot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chatbot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Chatbot

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 16 September 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
Berkshire -25 7 £425 +13.33% 3
Chatbot
South East

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Product Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) AI Agents
1 5 (71.43%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) AI
1 7 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 6 (85.71%) Customer Experience
3 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
3 5 (71.43%) LLM
4 3 (42.86%) Conversational AI
4 3 (42.86%) Prompt Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) CRM
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
5 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA