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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 73 563
Rank change year-on-year -316 +490 +56
Permanent jobs citing Chatbot 20 705 23
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 4.86% 0.071%
As % of the Applications category 1.63% 40.17% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 11 153 20
10th Percentile £60,000 £66,100 £38,150
25th Percentile £60,625 £66,206 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,240 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -1.87% -10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £66,296 £78,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £86,250 £79,125
UK median annual salary £37,500 £66,217 £65,000
% change year-on-year -43.37% +1.87% -13.33%

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 1,229 1,755 2,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.51% 12.09% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 616 770 1,788
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,042 £50,000 £43,865
Median % change year-on-year -5.92% +13.99% -7.65%
75th Percentile £61,438 £66,253 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £38,250
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.65% -13.07%

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 23 May 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Sketch
2 1 (5.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
4 2 (10.00%) Azure AI
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (10.00%) Figma
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) MLflow
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Product Owner
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Android Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Science Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Android Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
5 2 (10.00%) UI Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) User Experience Manager
5 2 (10.00%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) LangChain
1 3 (15.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (15.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (10.00%) gRPC
2 2 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (10.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) NumPy
3 1 (5.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) AI Agents
2 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 16 (80.00%) AI
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Generative AI
3 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (30.00%) Analytics
4 6 (30.00%) Conversational AI
4 6 (30.00%) LLM
4 6 (30.00%) User Experience
5 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Data Science
7 3 (15.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) PhD
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Cognizant
3 1 (5.00%) Foundry
3 1 (5.00%) Google