Chatbot Job Trends in the North West

Chatbots
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Chatbot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 199 188
Rank change year-on-year +150 -11 +116
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 190 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 3.02% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Applications category 35.45% 1.12% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,000 £56,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £30,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £48,188 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +149.02% -25.86% +8.33%
75th Percentile £125,000 £68,469 £68,750
90th Percentile £127,500 £73,750 £69,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £66,655 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.98% +11.09% -14.89%

All Software Application Skills
North West

Chatbot falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 536 535 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.52% 10.48% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 211 261 180
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £21,800
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +32.81% -14.67%
75th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £51,313
90th Percentile £60,000 £60,468 £66,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,000
% change year-on-year -16.11% +13.53% -10.08%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the North West

Chatbot
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Chatbot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in the North West over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Chatbot in the North West

Chatbot
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +92 85 £45,000 -6.62% 13
Merseyside - 78 £120,000 - 4
Cheshire - 10 - - 8
Cumbria - 10 - - 3
Lancashire - 7 - - 8
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (2.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.11%) Power BI
1 4 (2.11%) Tableau
General
1 69 (36.32%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (4.74%) Retail
3 8 (4.21%) Marketing
4 5 (2.63%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.53%) Agriculture
6 1 (0.53%) Finance
6 1 (0.53%) Law
6 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 181 (95.26%) Trainer
2 19 (10.00%) Customer Support Specialist
2 19 (10.00%) Support Specialist
3 10 (5.26%) Content Editor
4 6 (3.16%) Research Scientist
5 5 (2.63%) Customer Service Representative
6 4 (2.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (2.11%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (2.11%) Chief Technology Officer
6 4 (2.11%) Communications Manager
6 4 (2.11%) Marketing Specialist
7 3 (1.58%) Biostatistician
8 2 (1.05%) Biologist
8 2 (1.05%) Coordinator
8 2 (1.05%) Lecturer
9 1 (0.53%) Copywriter
9 1 (0.53%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.26%) Molecular Biology
2 4 (2.11%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (100.00%) AI
1 190 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 70 (36.84%) Chemistry
3 21 (11.05%) Customer Service
4 16 (8.42%) Content Writing
5 10 (5.26%) Biochemistry
5 10 (5.26%) Biology
5 10 (5.26%) Biotechnology
5 10 (5.26%) Data Interpretation
5 10 (5.26%) Experimental Design
6 9 (4.74%) Analytics
7 8 (4.21%) Physics
8 6 (3.16%) Mathematics
9 5 (2.63%) Machine Learning
9 5 (2.63%) Predictive Analytics
10 4 (2.11%) Customer Engagement
10 4 (2.11%) Data Analytics
10 4 (2.11%) IT Strategy
10 4 (2.11%) Sentiment Analysis
10 4 (2.11%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 181 (95.26%) Degree
2 88 (46.32%) Master's Degree
2 88 (46.32%) PhD
Vendors
1 181 (95.26%) PayPal
2 4 (2.11%) Genesys
2 4 (2.11%) HubSpot
2 4 (2.11%) ServiceNow