Chatbots
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chatbot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chatbot over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 668 710
Rank change year-on-year +335 +42 -99
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 285 51 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.085% 0.16%
As % of the Applications category 8.34% 1.16% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 96
10th Percentile £285 £304 £481
25th Percentile £425 £413 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -33.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 -
90th Percentile £630 £753 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £431 £525
% change year-on-year +15.94% -17.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.37
25th Percentile - £101.75 £16.85
Median hourly rate - £103.50 £18.80
Median % change year-on-year - +450.46% -26.26%
75th Percentile - £105.25 £20.85
90th Percentile - - £21.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.50 £17.11
% change year-on-year - +505.09% -32.92%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Chatbot is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,418 4,408 6,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.89% 7.37% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 2,901 4,333
10th Percentile £161 £188 £160
25th Percentile £213 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £390 £375
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% +10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 264 438
10th Percentile £11.55 £13.91 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.76 £36.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.34% +69.77% +13.16%
75th Percentile £39.92 £53.45 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £32.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year -50.28% +70.00% -

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 27 April 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 14 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 27 April 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
Work from Home +335 266 £500 +15.94% 12
England +317 255 £500 +5.26% 20
UK excluding London +242 227 £500 +15.94% 6
North of England +135 123 - - 4
Midlands +68 51 £314 -26.18% 1
North West +63 50 - - 1
Yorkshire +59 46 - - 2
London +129 44 £500 -10.11% 10
North East - 27 - - 1
West Midlands - 26 £314 - 1
East Midlands +38 25 - -
South West +45 24 - -
Scotland +55 23 - -
East of England +22 6 £500 - 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 4 (1.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (4.91%) AWS
1 14 (4.91%) GCP
2 9 (3.16%) Azure
3 3 (1.05%) Power Platform
4 2 (0.70%) IBM Watson
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (0.70%) Power Automate
4 2 (0.70%) PowerApps
4 2 (0.70%) Vertex AI
5 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (0.35%) Figma
5 1 (0.35%) SaaS
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (0.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) LAN
2 1 (0.35%) MPLS
2 1 (0.35%) Multicast
2 1 (0.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.35%) WAN
2 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.05%) Power BI
2 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (3.86%) Telecoms
2 8 (2.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (1.40%) Finance
4 3 (1.05%) Banking
5 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (0.70%) Marketing
6 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.35%) Danish Language
6 1 (0.35%) Electronics
6 1 (0.35%) Legal
6 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 249 (87.37%) Developer
2 241 (84.56%) Software Developer
3 16 (5.61%) Consultant
4 15 (5.26%) Genesys Consultant
5 8 (2.81%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (1.75%) Architect
6 5 (1.75%) Lead
7 4 (1.40%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (1.40%) Cloud Consultant
7 4 (1.40%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (1.40%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (1.40%) Product Lead
7 4 (1.40%) Product Owner
8 3 (1.05%) Analyst
8 3 (1.05%) Business Analyst
9 2 (0.70%) Genesys Architect
9 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Specialist
9 2 (0.70%) Platform Specialist
9 2 (0.70%) Power Platform Developer
9 2 (0.70%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (42.81%) HTML
2 14 (4.91%) RESTful
3 3 (1.05%) SOAP
3 3 (1.05%) XML
4 2 (0.70%) .NET
4 2 (0.70%) Web Services
5 1 (0.35%) Ajax
5 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) LangChain
5 1 (0.35%) LDAP
5 1 (0.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.32%) IVR
2 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.35%) CMDB
4 1 (0.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.35%) Windows
1 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 270 (94.74%) Artificial Intelligence
3 241 (84.56%) Code Quality
4 124 (43.51%) Software Engineering
5 17 (5.96%) Computer Science
6 15 (5.26%) Roadmaps
7 14 (4.91%) CI/CD
8 12 (4.21%) Configuration Management
8 12 (4.21%) Machine Learning
8 12 (4.21%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (4.21%) WFM
9 11 (3.86%) Presales
10 10 (3.51%) Quality Management
11 8 (2.81%) Customer Experience
12 5 (1.75%) Data Science
12 5 (1.75%) Natural Language Processing
13 4 (1.40%) Agile
13 4 (1.40%) Analytics
13 4 (1.40%) DevOps
13 4 (1.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.51%) Python
1 124 (43.51%) SQL
2 123 (43.16%) C#
2 123 (43.16%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
3 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 263 (92.28%) Degree
2 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (0.35%) GDPR
1 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 241 (84.56%) PayPal
2 17 (5.96%) Genesys
3 7 (2.46%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.11%) Avaya
5 4 (1.40%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.40%) UiPath
6 2 (0.70%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) BMC
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco
7 1 (0.35%) F5
7 1 (0.35%) Google
7 1 (0.35%) HP
7 1 (0.35%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.35%) SAP
7 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.35%) Workday