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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 190 228
Rank change year-on-year +117 +38 +66
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 145 6 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.94% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Applications category 27.00% 1.32% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 3
10th Percentile - £30,000 £42,603
25th Percentile £33,750 £30,313 £44,908
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £48,188 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% -8.21% -4.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £63,876 £63,125
90th Percentile £125,000 £66,938 £67,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £66,225 £65,000
% change year-on-year -43.37% +1.88% -7.80%

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 537 455 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.18% 10.05% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 248 239 373
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £22,900
25th Percentile £30,375 £36,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +30.77% -
75th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £58,943 £56,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -16.67%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +60 63 £37,500 -22.18% 4
Merseyside - 62 £37,500 - 3
Cheshire - 8 - - 1
Cumbria - 7 - -
Lancashire - 5 - - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.28%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.28%) AWS
1 12 (8.28%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.76%) Power BI
1 4 (2.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (37.24%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (13.10%) Retail
3 13 (8.97%) Finance
4 12 (8.28%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.45%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.69%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.69%) Law
7 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 127 (87.59%) Trainer
2 15 (10.34%) Customer Support Specialist
2 15 (10.34%) Support Specialist
3 12 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 12 (8.28%) Programmer
3 12 (8.28%) Trainee
3 12 (8.28%) Trainee Programmer
4 7 (4.83%) Content Editor
5 6 (4.14%) Research Scientist
6 4 (2.76%) Chief Technology Officer
7 2 (1.38%) Biologist
7 2 (1.38%) Biostatistician
7 2 (1.38%) Customer Service Representative
8 1 (0.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (0.69%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (0.69%) Coordinator
8 1 (0.69%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.28%) Hugging Face
1 12 (8.28%) Matplotlib
1 12 (8.28%) NumPy
1 12 (8.28%) Pandas
1 12 (8.28%) scikit-learn
1 12 (8.28%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.28%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.90%) Molecular Biology
3 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (100.00%) AI
1 145 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 55 (37.93%) Chemistry
3 25 (17.24%) Customer Service
4 16 (11.03%) Sentiment Analysis
5 14 (9.66%) Machine Learning
6 13 (8.97%) Workflow
7 12 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 12 (8.28%) Data Privacy
7 12 (8.28%) LLM
7 12 (8.28%) Neural Network
7 12 (8.28%) OO
7 12 (8.28%) OOP
7 12 (8.28%) Prompt Engineering
7 12 (8.28%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 12 (8.28%) Visualisation
8 10 (6.90%) Biochemistry
8 10 (6.90%) Biology
8 10 (6.90%) Data Interpretation
8 10 (6.90%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.28%) Python
Qualifications
1 127 (87.59%) Degree
2 70 (48.28%) Master's Degree
2 70 (48.28%) PhD
3 12 (8.28%) AWS Certification
3 12 (8.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 127 (87.59%) PayPal
2 12 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.76%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.69%) Genesys
4 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow