Chatbot Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Chatbots
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 62 51
Rank change year-on-year -25 -11 +50
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 2 1 23
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.18% 0.18% 2.29%
As % of the Applications category 3.77% 1.89% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £610 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% - -
75th Percentile £630 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £673 £525 -
% change year-on-year +28.10% - -

All Software Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 53 53 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.81% 9.80% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 36
10th Percentile £200 £180 £135
25th Percentile £248 £235 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £275 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -38.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £495 £384 £500
90th Percentile £568 £480 £694
Yorkshire median daily rate £408 £300 £313
% change year-on-year +35.86% -4.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £13.95 £27.29 £12.53
25th Percentile - £28.86 £13.15
Median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile - £34.31 £15.13
90th Percentile £16.35 £34.40 £18.64
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £23.01 £13.50
% change year-on-year -38.06% +70.41% -58.46%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
Leeds -17 2 £620 +18.10% 3
Chatbot
Yorkshire

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Digital User Researcher
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Component Testing
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk