Chatbot Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Chatbots
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 102 86
Rank change year-on-year -31 -16 -
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 3 1 26
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.065% 1.41%
As % of the Applications category 1.72% 0.71% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £722 - £290
25th Percentile £736 £513 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £760 £525 £314
Median % change year-on-year +44.76% +67.33% -
75th Percentile - £538 £332
90th Percentile - - £339
England median daily rate £508 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +12.78% -10.00% -

All Software Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 174 140 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.25% 9.03% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 96 94
10th Percentile £177 £161 £152
25th Percentile £263 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £329
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +29.28% -19.87%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £490
90th Percentile £623 £575 £626
England median daily rate £450 £411 £400
% change year-on-year +9.42% +2.81% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 19
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.50 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.93 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £35.86 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.72% +37.92% +53.53%
75th Percentile £25.00 £51.56 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £45.15
England median hourly rate £19.14 £26.42 £21.12
% change year-on-year -27.57% +25.11% -36.02%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 January 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
Shropshire - 3 £760 - 2
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Hackathon
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 3 (100.00%) Epics
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Server-Driven UI
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance