Chatbot Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Chatbots
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 124 458
Rank change year-on-year -163 +334 +75
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 17 267 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 1.74% 0.073%
As % of the Applications category 2.39% 22.80% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 24 16
10th Percentile £239 £299 £221
25th Percentile £325 £441 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +15.94% -28.13%
75th Percentile £400 £502 £528
90th Percentile £453 £550 £566
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -32.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.46 - -
UK median hourly rate £15.46 - £103.50
% change year-on-year - - +450.46%

All Software Application Skills
Work from Home

Chatbot falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 710 1,171 1,683
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 7.17% 7.63% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 512 1,152
10th Percentile £211 £183 £213
25th Percentile £263 £285 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £710 £700
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 179 101
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.96 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.20 £15.46 £24.50
Median hourly rate £17.03 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.36% -22.22% +63.13%
75th Percentile £32.05 £57.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.25 £66.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.72 £36.50
% change year-on-year +33.13% -51.45% +69.77%

Chatbot
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Chatbot trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Chatbot
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Chatbot.

Chatbot daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Chatbot daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Figma
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (17.65%) Marketing
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Legal
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Trainer
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Artworker
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Writer
4 1 (5.88%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Writer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) FHIR
2 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Animation
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 11 (64.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
4 4 (23.53%) Case Management
5 3 (17.65%) Contact Management
5 3 (17.65%) User Experience
5 3 (17.65%) UX Design
5 3 (17.65%) WFM
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) LLM
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.88%) Conversational AI
7 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
7 1 (5.88%) Inclusive Design
7 1 (5.88%) Journey Map
7 1 (5.88%) Microinteractions
7 1 (5.88%) Prompt Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 1 (5.88%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) C++
2 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) PayPal
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Genesys
3 1 (5.88%) Nexthink
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI