Bot Management Contract Job Trends

Bot Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Bot Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bot Management 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £584 - -
25th Percentile £667 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Bot Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,013 27,550 38,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.71% 89.93% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,879 17,122 25,100
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.58% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 871 2,197
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.03 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.71% -5.53%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.96 £75.00 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.51% -9.60% -

Bot Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bot Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Bot Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Bot Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bot Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Bot Management

Bot Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bot Management over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Bot Management in the UK

Bot Management
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bot Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England - 5 £725 - 4
London - 3 £725 -
North West - 1 £563 - 4
Work from Home - 1 - - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £563 - 4
North of England - 1 £563 - 4

Bot Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (40.00%) Akamai
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
1 2 (40.00%) Fastly
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) HTTP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) OWASP
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Security Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform