Chatbot Job Trends in the South East

Chatbots
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Chatbot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 206 358
Rank change year-on-year -82 +152 -32
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 18 88 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.11% 1.02% 0.11%
As % of the Applications category 1.83% 11.80% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 15
10th Percentile £47,500 £63,486 -
25th Percentile £48,063 £72,905 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £54,750 - £78,750
90th Percentile - - £88,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £66,212 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.48% -5.41% -6.67%

All Software Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 986 746 2,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.27% 8.68% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 551 427 1,247
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,500 £27,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £37,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,200 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -11.11%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the South East

Chatbot
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Chatbot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Chatbot in the South East

Chatbot
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Hampshire -61 9 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Thames Valley -35 8 £51,500 -29.36% 3
Buckinghamshire -30 5 £51,500 - 1
Oxfordshire -16 2 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Berkshire -11 1 £37,500 -43.02% 1
Surrey - 1 - - 1
Chatbot
England

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.11%) Azure AI
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (33.33%) Retail
2 4 (22.22%) French Language
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (27.78%) .NET Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 4 (22.22%) IT Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Service Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Developer
5 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 3 (16.67%) React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Graduate
6 1 (5.56%) IT Support Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Junior
6 1 (5.56%) Junior Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
1 5 (27.78%) Blazor
1 5 (27.78%) React
1 5 (27.78%) WinForms
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.56%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.56%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 14 (77.78%) AI
3 7 (38.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (33.33%) OO
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
5 5 (27.78%) Concurrent Programming
5 5 (27.78%) Front End Development
5 5 (27.78%) LLM
5 5 (27.78%) Microservices
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Multithreading
5 5 (27.78%) OOD
5 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
7 2 (11.11%) DevOps
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C#
1 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft