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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 97 258
Rank change year-on-year -147 +161 -31
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 8 192 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.067% 3.70% 0.024%
As % of the Applications category 1.82% 28.49% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £50,875 - £41,900
25th Percentile £51,813 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,221 £47,500 £68,500
90th Percentile £94,418 - £73,900
England median annual salary £65,000 £39,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% -44.29% -6.67%

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 439 674 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.65% 12.98% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 287 271 339
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £24,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £38,000 £36,950
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.84% -7.63%
75th Percentile £50,000 £51,240 £47,500
90th Percentile £58,800 £60,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%

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 August 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 August 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 -112 6 £58,750 +30.56% 7
Lancashire +11 1 £87,431 - 3
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 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) CTI
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Head of AI
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) LangChain
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (12.50%) IVR
3 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
1 8 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 5 (62.50%) Customer Experience
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Conversational AI
4 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) LLM
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Avaya
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Genesys
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft