Chatbot Contract Job Trends in Central London

Chatbots
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London citing Chatbot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	145	122	134
Rank change year-on-year	-23	+12	+15
Contract jobs citing Chatbot	6	6	4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	0.25%	0.32%	0.17%
As % of the Applications category	5.41%	3.70%	2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	4	5	2
10^th Percentile	-	£362	£528
25^th Percentile	£463	£413	£550
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£550	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-9.09%	-8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£631	£575	£650
90^th Percentile	£798	-	£673
London median daily rate	£600	£513	£475
% change year-on-year	+17.07%	+7.89%	-13.64%

All Software Application Skills
Central London

Chatbot falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing software application skills in Central London.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing software application skills	111	162	160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London	4.69%	8.68%	6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted	69	111	90
10^th Percentile	£156	£268	£165
25^th Percentile	£305	£330	£283
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£415	£440	£475
Median % change year-on-year	-5.68%	-7.37%	+2.70%
75^th Percentile	£575	£609	£621
90^th Percentile	£688	£738	£701
London median daily rate	£475	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+5.56%	-	-5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	6	4
10^th Percentile	-	£14.75	£25.88
25^th Percentile	-	£18.74	£26.60
Median hourly rate	£26.13	£25.99	£31.00
Median % change year-on-year	+0.56%	-16.18%	+22.77%
75^th Percentile	-	£33.81	£35.00
90^th Percentile	-	£46.38	-
London median hourly rate	£25.27	£25.15	£27.00
% change year-on-year	+0.48%	-6.85%	+5.02%

Chatbot Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Chatbot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Chatbot Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Chatbot.

Chatbot Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Chatbot in Central London over the 6 months to 23 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Chatbot in Central London

Chatbot Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Chatbot within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
City of London	-27	6	£500	-9.09%	3
Chatbot London

Chatbot Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Chatbot also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region citing Chatbot.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Conversational UI	100.0%	6
2	AI	83.3%	5
3	Azure	66.7%	4
3	Generative AI	66.7%	4
3	LLM	66.7%	4
6	AWS	50.0%	3
6	ETL	50.0%	3
6	Machine Learning	50.0%	3
6	Performance Tuning	50.0%	3
6	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	50.0%	3
11	Azure AI	33.3%	2
11	CI/CD	33.3%	2
11	Containerisation	33.3%	2
11	CrewAI	33.3%	2
11	Data Architecture	33.3%	2
11	Docker	33.3%	2
11	Fintech	33.3%	2
11	Kubernetes	33.3%	2
11	LangChain	33.3%	2
11	LlamaIndex	33.3%	2
11	Microsoft 365	33.3%	2
11	Milvus	33.3%	2
11	MLOps	33.3%	2
11	NoSQL	33.3%	2
11	Pinecone	33.3%	2
11	Power Automate	33.3%	2
11	Power Platform	33.3%	2
11	Python	33.3%	2
11	PyTorch	33.3%	2
11	Qwen	33.3%	2

Chatbot Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Conversational UI	100.0%	6
2	AI	83.3%	5
3	Generative AI	66.7%	4
3	LLM	66.7%	4
5	ETL	50.0%	3
5	Machine Learning	50.0%	3
5	Performance Tuning	50.0%	3
5	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	50.0%	3
9	CI/CD	33.3%	2
9	Containerisation	33.3%	2
9	Data Architecture	33.3%	2
9	Fintech	33.3%	2
9	MLOps	33.3%	2
9	Regulatory Compliance	33.3%	2
9	Roadmaps	33.3%	2
9	Software Engineering	33.3%	2
17	Actionable Insight	16.7%	1
17	Analytics	16.7%	1
17	Artificial Intelligence Engineering	16.7%	1
17	Business Intelligence	16.7%	1