Chatbot Contract Job Trends

Chatbots
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 455 336
Rank change year-on-year -58 -119 +298
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 110 65 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.62%
As % of the Applications category 3.92% 2.63% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 42 37
10th Percentile £395 £162 £299
25th Percentile £413 £331 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -17.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £630
90th Percentile £726 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £419
% change year-on-year +18.75% -4.48% -2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.46 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.46 -

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 2,805 2,468 3,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.83% 8.40% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,447 1,681
10th Percentile £250 £188 £165
25th Percentile £340 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £568 £540 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +14.13% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 257 627
10th Percentile £13.38 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.52 £22.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.79% +32.35% -47.37%
75th Percentile £34.54 £43.75 £38.43
90th Percentile £69.30 £68.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.33 £21.73 £16.06
% change year-on-year -6.47% +35.31% -42.29%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the UK

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chatbot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Top 13 Contract Job 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 17 May 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 -87 90 £550 +33.33% 85
London -27 62 £550 -1.57% 38
UK excluding London -100 37 £475 +18.75% 71
Work from Home -19 28 £488 +39.29% 79
North of England -64 12 £568 +41.88% 20
Wales - 8 £425 - 1
North West -36 7 £495 +23.75% 12
West Midlands -57 6 £743 +85.63% 3
Midlands -68 6 £743 +364.06% 9
Yorkshire -54 5 £675 +28.57% 6
South East -61 5 £456 +7.35% 22
Scotland +2 3 - - 6
South West -31 3 - - 8

Chatbot
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.27%) Moodle
2 7 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.82%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.91%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.91%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.91%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.09%) Azure
2 14 (12.73%) AWS
3 9 (8.18%) Figma
3 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Copilot
3 9 (8.18%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.27%) Google Workspace
4 8 (7.27%) Miro
5 7 (6.36%) GCP
5 7 (6.36%) Serverless
5 7 (6.36%) WhatsApp
6 6 (5.45%) Amazon Bedrock
6 6 (5.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 6 (5.45%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.64%) Azure AI
7 4 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.64%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) DNS
1 2 (1.82%) VPN
1 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.91%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Pinecone
2 5 (4.55%) Weaviate
3 3 (2.73%) CockroachDB
3 3 (2.73%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.82%) DTS
4 2 (1.82%) Metadata
4 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.82%) Power BI
5 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.91%) Tableau
5 1 (0.91%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) JIRA
2 5 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) Gatling
3 1 (0.91%) GitLab
3 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.91%) MLflow
3 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.91%) Selenium
3 1 (0.91%) Serenity BDD
General
1 33 (30.00%) Finance
2 28 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Retail
4 9 (8.18%) Banking
5 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.73%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.73%) Marketing
7 2 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.82%) Military
7 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (13.64%) Lead
2 13 (11.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (10.91%) Designer
4 10 (9.09%) Developer
4 10 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 10 (9.09%) Senior
5 8 (7.27%) Moodle Developer
5 8 (7.27%) Senior Manager
6 7 (6.36%) Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.55%) Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) Architect
9 4 (3.64%) Programme Manager
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Programme Manager
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (2.73%) Development Team Leader
10 3 (2.73%) IT Manager
10 3 (2.73%) IT Project Manager
10 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.73%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) LangChain
2 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.64%) CSS
2 4 (3.64%) HTML
2 4 (3.64%) LangGraph
2 4 (3.64%) LlamaIndex
2 4 (3.64%) Model Context Protocol
2 4 (3.64%) OAuth
2 4 (3.64%) React
3 3 (2.73%) boto
3 3 (2.73%) Vue
3 3 (2.73%) WebSockets
4 2 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.82%) CrewAI
4 2 (1.82%) Faiss
4 2 (1.82%) Playwright
4 2 (1.82%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.82%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.82%) Web Services
4 2 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.91%) AI Agents
2 14 (12.73%) Virtual Team
3 10 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.73%) IVR
6 3 (2.73%) Life Science
6 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.82%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.82%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.91%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.82%) Android
1 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.82%) Mac OS
1 2 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 95 (86.36%) AI
3 35 (31.82%) Generative AI
3 35 (31.82%) LLM
4 30 (27.27%) Agile
5 27 (24.55%) Machine Learning
6 24 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (19.09%) Customer Experience
8 19 (17.27%) Use Case
8 19 (17.27%) User Experience
9 17 (15.45%) Decision-Making
9 17 (15.45%) Journey Map
10 16 (14.55%) Analytics
10 16 (14.55%) Roadmaps
11 15 (13.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 15 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.82%) CI/CD
12 13 (11.82%) Conversational AI
12 13 (11.82%) Prompt Engineering
13 12 (10.91%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.73%) Python
2 9 (8.18%) SQL
3 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
4 6 (5.45%) Java
4 6 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.82%) Bicep
5 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.91%) Bash
6 1 (0.91%) C#
6 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (4.55%) Degree
2 3 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.91%) PhD
4 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.64%) PMO
3 2 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 6 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.45%) Terraform
3 3 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.91%) Grafana
4 1 (0.91%) Istio
4 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Google
3 8 (7.27%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.73%) Adobe
5 3 (2.73%) Databricks
6 2 (1.82%) Citrix
6 2 (1.82%) Foundry
6 2 (1.82%) Genesys
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) SAP
6 2 (1.82%) Workday
7 1 (0.91%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.91%) Ariba
7 1 (0.91%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.91%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.91%) Splunk