Chatbot Contracts

Chatbots
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Chatbot skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Chatbot over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 633 728
Rank change year-on-year +231 +95 -82
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 174 49 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.087% 0.13%
As % of the Applications category 5.41% 1.18% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 67
10th Percentile £315 £320 £461
25th Percentile £406 £413 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £700
90th Percentile £700 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £438 £561
% change year-on-year -8.57% -22.05% +40.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.37
25th Percentile - £101.75 £16.85
Median hourly rate - £103.50 £18.80
Median % change year-on-year - +450.46% -26.26%
75th Percentile - £105.25 £20.85
90th Percentile - - £21.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.50 £17.11
% change year-on-year - +505.09% -32.92%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Chatbot is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,215 4,152 6,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 7.41% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 2,721 4,306
10th Percentile £165 £185 £161
25th Percentile £213 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £390 £375
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% +10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 253 409
10th Percentile £11.54 £14.27 £11.24
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £30.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.90% +39.53% +21.13%
75th Percentile £37.50 £52.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £26.48 £19.00
% change year-on-year -39.35% +39.37% +8.39%

Chatbot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Chatbot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Chatbot.

Daily rate trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Chatbot.

Hourly rate trend for Chatbot in the UK

Chatbot
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +195 154 £500 +5.26% 21
Work from Home +234 147 £500 +14.29% 12
UK excluding London +126 119 £400 -8.57% 13
North of England +76 63 - - 6
London +119 40 £500 -6.98% 7
North West +44 26 - - 1
Midlands +43 26 £264 -38.84%
Yorkshire +33 22 - - 2
North East - 15 - - 3
West Midlands +26 13 £338 -43.75%
East Midlands +20 13 £190 -55.29%
South West +16 12 - -
Scotland +47 11 - -
South East +4 4 £400 -20.00% 6
East of England - 3 £475 - 1

Chatbot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.79%) Azure
2 16 (9.20%) AWS
3 13 (7.47%) GCP
4 9 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (5.17%) Twilio
5 4 (2.30%) SaaS
5 4 (2.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (1.72%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.15%) Figma
7 2 (1.15%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.15%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.15%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Einstein
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) CTI
1 9 (5.17%) VoIP
2 2 (1.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.57%) LAN
3 1 (0.57%) MPLS
3 1 (0.57%) Multicast
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) WAN
3 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.15%) Power BI
2 1 (0.57%) MySQL
2 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (7.47%) Finance
1 13 (7.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.75%) Telecoms
3 9 (5.17%) Retail
4 2 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.15%) Banking
4 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.15%) Legal
5 1 (0.57%) Danish Language
5 1 (0.57%) Marketing
5 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (78.74%) Developer
2 124 (71.26%) Software Developer
3 14 (8.05%) Architect
4 11 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 11 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.45%) Consultant
6 4 (2.30%) Analyst
6 4 (2.30%) Business Analyst
6 4 (2.30%) Data Science Leader
6 4 (2.30%) Lead
6 4 (2.30%) Lead Product Owner
6 4 (2.30%) Product Lead
6 4 (2.30%) Product Owner
7 3 (1.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (1.72%) Azure Developer
7 3 (1.72%) Designer
7 3 (1.72%) Genesys Consultant
8 2 (1.15%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Consultant
8 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (70.11%) HTML
2 11 (6.32%) Web Services
3 9 (5.17%) Middleware
4 4 (2.30%) RESTful
5 2 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.15%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.57%) Ajax
6 1 (0.57%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.57%) CSS
6 1 (0.57%) LangChain
6 1 (0.57%) LDAP
6 1 (0.57%) REST
6 1 (0.57%) SOAP
6 1 (0.57%) Vue
6 1 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) IVR
2 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.87%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.57%) CMDB
5 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
1 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 161 (92.53%) Artificial Intelligence
3 124 (71.26%) Software Engineering
4 121 (69.54%) Code Quality
5 18 (10.34%) Computer Science
6 17 (9.77%) Customer Experience
7 15 (8.62%) Analytics
7 15 (8.62%) Machine Learning
8 13 (7.47%) Agile
8 13 (7.47%) DevOps
9 11 (6.32%) CRM
9 11 (6.32%) WFM
10 10 (5.75%) Data Privacy
11 9 (5.17%) Capacity Planning
11 9 (5.17%) Knowledge Transfer
11 9 (5.17%) Load Balancing
11 9 (5.17%) Natural Language Processing
11 9 (5.17%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (5.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (4.60%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 125 (71.84%) Python
2 123 (70.69%) JavaScript
3 121 (69.54%) C#
3 121 (69.54%) SQL
4 2 (1.15%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.57%) PHP
5 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 145 (83.33%) Degree
2 16 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.32%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.75%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) GDPR
2 8 (4.60%) HIPAA
2 8 (4.60%) PCI DSS
2 8 (4.60%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 121 (69.54%) PayPal
2 16 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.47%) Genesys
4 10 (5.75%) Cisco
4 10 (5.75%) Google
5 9 (5.17%) Avaya
5 9 (5.17%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.30%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.15%) IBM
7 2 (1.15%) UiPath
7 2 (1.15%) Workday
8 1 (0.57%) BMC
8 1 (0.57%) F5
8 1 (0.57%) HP
8 1 (0.57%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow