Hybrid/Remote Chatbot Job Trends

Chatbots
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Chatbot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 45 548
Rank change year-on-year -363 +503 +12
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 32 986 25
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 6.07% 0.076%
As % of the Applications category 2.32% 44.60% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 22 145 22
10th Percentile £48,250 £66,100 £38,757
25th Percentile £54,688 £66,206 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,230 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% -10.20% -1.67%
75th Percentile £93,634 £66,295 £78,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £82,125
UK median annual salary £45,000 £66,212 £70,000
% change year-on-year -32.04% -5.41% -6.67%

All Software Application Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,381 2,211 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.55% 13.62% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 745 895 1,783
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £25,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,000 £43,865
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +13.99% -8.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,225 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year -8.05% +10.13% -12.22%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Chatbot and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Chatbot job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Chatbot
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chatbot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chatbot

Chatbot
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Chatbot salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Chatbot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Einstein
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) CTI
1 7 (21.88%) VoIP
2 3 (9.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 7 (21.88%) Influencing Skills
1 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Retail
4 3 (9.38%) Games
4 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Lead
2 7 (21.88%) Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Lead Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Technical Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Technical Leader
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 4 (12.50%) Service Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Product Owner
6 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
1 4 (12.50%) Blazor
1 4 (12.50%) React
1 4 (12.50%) WinForms
2 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.25%) LangChain
2 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.13%) NumPy
3 1 (3.13%) Pandas
3 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) IVR
2 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
3 4 (12.50%) AI Agents
3 4 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.13%) Life Science
5 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Android
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 26 (81.25%) AI
3 15 (46.88%) Agile
4 13 (40.63%) Mentoring
5 12 (37.50%) Analytics
6 11 (34.38%) Roadmaps
6 11 (34.38%) User Experience
7 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
9 7 (21.88%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (21.88%) Architecture Governance
9 7 (21.88%) Coaching
9 7 (21.88%) High Availability
9 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.88%) Waterfall
9 7 (21.88%) WFM
9 7 (21.88%) Workforce Optimisation
10 6 (18.75%) Generative AI
10 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
11 5 (15.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) C#
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.38%) PhD
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Avaya
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco
2 7 (21.88%) Genesys
3 1 (3.13%) Cognizant
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Foundry
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce