Chatbot Job Trends

Chatbots
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Chatbot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 619 678
Rank change year-on-year +504 +59 +220
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 1,214 83 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Applications category 21.32% 1.51% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42 45 24
10th Percentile £27,000 £37,050 £26,301
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £35,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,799 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +9.67% -14.89%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £91,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.77% +8.33% -7.69%

All Software Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 5,694 5,489 4,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.34% 10.29% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,288 2,041 3,526
10th Percentile £26,533 £28,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,501 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -12.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +25.00% -4.00%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Chatbot job vacancy trend in the UK

Chatbot
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chatbot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
Work from Home +361 1,183 £55,000 -17.49% 37
UK excluding London +437 1,009 £45,000 -30.77% 180
England +472 966 £60,000 -8.82% 169
North of England +221 443 £120,000 +269.23% 43
Midlands +159 216 £28,000 -56.92% 26
Yorkshire +116 198 £95,000 +233.74% 19
North West +148 181 £120,000 +149.02% 18
West Midlands +136 150 £28,000 - 7
South East +127 112 £60,000 +1.00% 44
South West - 112 - - 20
Scotland +83 92 - - 10
London +92 81 £70,000 -15.15% 31
East Midlands +47 66 - - 18
North East - 64 - - 6
East of England +77 58 £45,000 -31.61% 25
Wales - 32 - - 12
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (0.41%) CMS
2 2 (0.16%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (0.99%) Azure
2 8 (0.66%) AWS
3 7 (0.58%) Power Platform
4 5 (0.41%) Kontent
5 4 (0.33%) Figma
6 3 (0.25%) Azure AI
6 3 (0.25%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (0.25%) Dialogflow
6 3 (0.25%) GCP
6 3 (0.25%) SaaS
7 2 (0.16%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (0.16%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.082%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.082%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.082%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.082%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.082%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.41%) Power BI
1 5 (0.41%) Tableau
2 3 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (0.25%) JIRA
2 2 (0.16%) MLflow
General
1 385 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (5.11%) Retail
3 27 (2.22%) Social Skills
4 23 (1.89%) Law
5 22 (1.81%) Marketing
6 19 (1.57%) Legal
7 10 (0.82%) Agriculture
8 8 (0.66%) Finance
9 6 (0.49%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.25%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.16%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.082%) Local Government
12 1 (0.082%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.082%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1,160 (95.55%) Trainer
2 155 (12.77%) Content Editor
3 96 (7.91%) Customer Support Specialist
3 96 (7.91%) Support Specialist
4 76 (6.26%) Research Scientist
5 41 (3.38%) Customer Service Representative
6 26 (2.14%) Biostatistician
7 20 (1.65%) Communications Manager
8 17 (1.40%) Biologist
8 17 (1.40%) Coordinator
9 13 (1.07%) Developer
10 12 (0.99%) Lecturer
10 12 (0.99%) Marketing Specialist
11 7 (0.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (0.58%) Digital Content Editor
11 7 (0.58%) Digital Editor
11 7 (0.58%) Physicist
11 7 (0.58%) Support Engineer
11 7 (0.58%) Technical Support
11 7 (0.58%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.82%) React
2 8 (0.66%) CSS
2 8 (0.66%) HTML
2 8 (0.66%) Node.js
3 5 (0.41%) LangChain
3 5 (0.41%) REST
3 5 (0.41%) Vue
4 3 (0.25%) .NET
4 3 (0.25%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (0.25%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.25%) FastAPI
4 3 (0.25%) gRPC
4 3 (0.25%) Hugging Face
4 3 (0.25%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (0.25%) jQuery
4 3 (0.25%) Redux
4 3 (0.25%) SOAP
4 3 (0.25%) Web Services
4 3 (0.25%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.16%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 97 (7.99%) Molecular Biology
2 10 (0.82%) AI Agents
3 8 (0.66%) Low-Code
3 8 (0.66%) Mobile App
4 7 (0.58%) Onboarding
5 5 (0.41%) Product Ownership
6 3 (0.25%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.16%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.082%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.082%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.33%) Android
2 1 (0.082%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.082%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,214 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 1,206 (99.34%) AI
3 390 (32.13%) Chemistry
4 204 (16.80%) Content Writing
5 114 (9.39%) Customer Service
6 97 (7.99%) Biochemistry
6 97 (7.99%) Biology
6 97 (7.99%) Biotechnology
6 97 (7.99%) Data Interpretation
6 97 (7.99%) Experimental Design
7 77 (6.34%) Physics
8 70 (5.77%) Mathematics
9 26 (2.14%) Biostatistics
9 26 (2.14%) Cybersecurity
10 21 (1.73%) Computer Science
11 20 (1.65%) Agile
12 15 (1.24%) Analytics
12 15 (1.24%) Machine Learning
13 13 (1.07%) CI/CD
14 12 (0.99%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (1.40%) Python
2 11 (0.91%) JavaScript
3 10 (0.82%) TypeScript
4 5 (0.41%) Java
5 4 (0.33%) Kotlin
6 3 (0.25%) Go
7 1 (0.082%) R
Qualifications
1 1,157 (95.30%) Degree
2 567 (46.71%) Master's Degree
3 563 (46.38%) PhD
4 6 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.25%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.25%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.082%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.16%) QA
3 1 (0.082%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.082%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.16%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1,161 (95.63%) PayPal
2 11 (0.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (0.33%) HubSpot
3 4 (0.33%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.25%) Genesys
4 3 (0.25%) Google
4 3 (0.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.16%) Databricks
5 2 (0.16%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.082%) Foundry