Chatbot Contracts in the UK excluding London

Chatbots
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 308 191 431
Rank change year-on-year -117 +240 +63
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 28 227 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 1.09% 0.13%
As % of the Applications category 2.21% 11.12% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 22
10th Percentile £132 £313 £301
25th Percentile £280 £416 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +15.94% -17.86%
75th Percentile £478 - £506
90th Percentile £541 - £665
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £101.75
Median hourly rate £15.46 - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.46 - £103.50
% change year-on-year - - +450.46%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,265 2,042 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.91% 9.83% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 859 1,400
10th Percentile £161 £150 £164
25th Percentile £225 £200 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £391
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £578 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 531 198
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.07 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.32 £13.75 £17.32
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -50.28% +70.00%
75th Percentile £45.98 £38.85 £52.86
90th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.13% -51.45% +69.77%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot in the UK excluding London

Chatbot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chatbot in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Chatbot in the UK excluding London

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the UK excluding London

Chatbot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chatbot in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Chatbot in the UK excluding London

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +32 8 £338 -32.50% 3
Midlands -23 6 £146 -53.41% 6
North of England -86 6 £400 - 16
South East - 5 £450 - 19
East Midlands -11 4 £131 - 2
North West -30 3 £400 - 10
Scotland -8 2 - - 1
West Midlands -10 2 £413 +31.47% 3
North East -23 2 £456 - 2
South West +23 1 £475 - 5
Yorkshire -37 1 £525 - 5
Chatbot
UK

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Figma
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Dialogflow
3 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
3 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Legal
3 3 (10.71%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
1 8 (28.57%) Trainer
2 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Software Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Content Designer
4 3 (10.71%) Customer Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) UX Designer
5 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.57%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Technical Writer
6 1 (3.57%) SEO Executive
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (10.71%) Node.js
3 2 (7.14%) Parceljs
3 2 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) FHIR
4 1 (3.57%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
1 3 (10.71%) Social Media
2 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Educational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 17 (60.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (32.14%) Customer Service
3 9 (32.14%) User Experience
4 8 (28.57%) UX Design
5 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
6 5 (17.86%) Agile
7 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
7 4 (14.29%) LLM
7 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) Business Strategy
8 3 (10.71%) Content Marketing
8 3 (10.71%) Customer Insight
8 3 (10.71%) Decision-Making
8 3 (10.71%) Natural Language Processing
8 3 (10.71%) Product Marketing
8 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) C++
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) PayPal
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Genesys
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Nexthink
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Screaming Frog