Chatbot Contracts

Chatbots
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 617 766
Rank change year-on-year +94 +149 -89
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 49 60 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.097%
As % of the Applications category 1.81% 1.48% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 37
10th Percentile £366 £339 £400
25th Percentile £409 £429 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -5.98% +11.43%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £603
90th Percentile £688 £796 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £505 £585
% change year-on-year -10.89% -13.68% +23.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £101.75 £16.05
Median hourly rate - £103.50 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year - +505.09% -
75th Percentile - £105.25 £18.16
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.50 £17.11
% change year-on-year - +505.09% -

All Software Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,702 4,054 6,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.73% 7.46% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,642 4,374
10th Percentile £163 £181 £165
25th Percentile £236 £275 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £550
90th Percentile £630 £663 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £375 £375
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 458 271 359
10th Percentile £11.77 £14.00 £11.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £16.61 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.80 £25.00 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% +14.78% +24.46%
75th Percentile £42.50 £47.50 £44.26
90th Percentile £57.50 £63.00 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.23 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -26.23% +12.82% +13.90%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chatbot.

Hourly rate trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +67 41 £488 -15.22% 6
London +84 24 £500 -16.67% 3
Work from Home +117 23 £488 +14.71% 8
UK excluding London +33 15 £450 -10.89% 6
North of England +21 6 £488 -6.56% 1
North West +31 5 £488 -21.25% 1
South East +22 4 £400 -38.46% 1
Midlands +19 2 £190 +60.34% 1
East Midlands +11 2 £190 +62.74%
East of England - 2 £450 -
Scotland +44 1 - - 2
North East +3 1 - -

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) NEC Housing
1 1 (2.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) Azure
2 18 (36.73%) AWS
3 10 (20.41%) GCP
4 9 (18.37%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (18.37%) Twilio
5 6 (12.24%) Azure AI
6 5 (10.20%) SaaS
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 3 (6.12%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Stack
9 2 (4.08%) Figma
9 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Einstein
9 2 (4.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) CTI
1 9 (18.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) MySQL
1 1 (2.04%) Power BI
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Finance
3 9 (18.37%) Retail
3 9 (18.37%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Banking
4 2 (4.08%) Legal
5 1 (2.04%) Danish Language
5 1 (2.04%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Architect
3 11 (22.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 11 (22.45%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (8.16%) Designer
6 3 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Data Science Leader
6 3 (6.12%) Lead Product Owner
6 3 (6.12%) Product Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Product Owner
6 3 (6.12%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Coordinator
7 2 (4.08%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (4.08%) Sales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) Web Services
2 9 (18.37%) Middleware
3 4 (8.16%) Hugging Face
4 2 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (4.08%) Visualforce
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.04%) LangChain
5 1 (2.04%) RESTful
5 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) IVR
2 8 (16.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.04%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 39 (79.59%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (32.65%) Analytics
3 16 (32.65%) Customer Experience
3 16 (32.65%) Machine Learning
4 14 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 13 (26.53%) Agile
5 13 (26.53%) Natural Language Processing
6 11 (22.45%) CRM
7 10 (20.41%) Data Privacy
7 10 (20.41%) DevOps
7 10 (20.41%) WFM
8 9 (18.37%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (18.37%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (18.37%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (16.33%) Load Balancing
9 8 (16.33%) Performance Testing
10 6 (12.24%) Customer Service
10 6 (12.24%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) Python
2 5 (10.20%) Java
3 2 (4.08%) Apex Code
3 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) PHP
4 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) Degree
2 14 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (20.41%) Azure Certification
3 10 (20.41%) Master's Degree
4 9 (18.37%) AWS Certification
4 9 (18.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (18.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) GDPR
2 8 (16.33%) HIPAA
2 8 (16.33%) PCI DSS
2 8 (16.33%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.04%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.41%) Genesys
3 9 (18.37%) Avaya
3 9 (18.37%) Cisco
3 9 (18.37%) Google
3 9 (18.37%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.16%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.08%) UiPath
5 2 (4.08%) Workday
6 1 (2.04%) NEC