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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 286 417
Rank change year-on-year -32 +131 +67
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 39 119 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.56% 0.11%
As % of the Applications category 2.80% 6.06% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 20
10th Percentile £132 £185 £282
25th Percentile £238 £295 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year - -7.25% -26.28%
75th Percentile £488 £419 £581
90th Percentile £574 £509 £800
UK median daily rate £438 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.56% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £18.43 - -
25th Percentile £22.88 - £101.75
Median hourly rate £30.29 - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £30.29 - £103.50
% change year-on-year - - +505.09%

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 1,393 1,965 2,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.28% 9.25% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 845 1,258
10th Percentile £160 £156 £164
25th Percentile £230 £200 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £369 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -7.86% +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £600 £610 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 552 186
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.15 £13.96
25th Percentile £15.38 £13.86 £16.43
Median hourly rate £23.10 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.84% -35.76% +29.17%
75th Percentile £45.00 £35.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £24.66 £16.44 £26.48
% change year-on-year +50.00% -37.92% +18.21%

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 24 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Chatbot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 June 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
North of England -24 12 £400 - 74
Midlands -8 10 £160 -15.79% 23
East of England +29 8 £525 +16.67% 3
North West -10 8 £400 - 27
East Midlands -3 6 £132 -30.35% 10
South East +47 4 £438 +9.38% 27
West Midlands -4 4 £400 +18.52% 13
South West +28 2 £475 - 4
Scotland -7 2 - - 5
North East -12 2 £456 - 25
Yorkshire -17 2 £525 - 22
Wales - 1 - - 2
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 (2.56%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Figma
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.13%) Serverless
3 2 (5.13%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure App Service
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (2.56%) Dialogflow
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Legal
4 3 (7.69%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 10 (25.64%) Trainer
3 8 (20.51%) Analyst
4 6 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Designer
6 4 (10.26%) Customer Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Content Designer
7 3 (7.69%) UX Designer
8 2 (5.13%) AWS Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Senior
8 2 (5.13%) Service Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Implementation Specialist
9 1 (2.56%) QA Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior QA Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Service Manager
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) HTML
2 3 (7.69%) Node.js
3 2 (5.13%) FHIR
4 1 (2.56%) Express.js
4 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.56%) LangChain
4 1 (2.56%) Parceljs
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) IVR
2 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.69%) Social Media
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 28 (71.79%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (28.21%) User Experience
4 9 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 8 (20.51%) LLM
5 8 (20.51%) UX Design
6 7 (17.95%) Natural Language Processing
7 6 (15.38%) Agile
7 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
7 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
7 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (12.82%) Conversational AI
8 5 (12.82%) CRM
8 5 (12.82%) Generative AI
9 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
9 4 (10.26%) Strategic Thinking
10 3 (7.69%) Content Marketing
10 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (7.69%) Customer Insight
10 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.38%) C#
3 6 (15.38%) C++
3 6 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) HL7
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) PayPal
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Genesys
4 1 (2.56%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (2.56%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.56%) Citrix
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath