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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 637 725
Rank change year-on-year +292 +88 -81
Contract jobs citing Chatbot 229 50 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.088% 0.14%
As % of the Applications category 6.95% 1.18% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 36 74
10th Percentile £274 £306 £474
25th Percentile £419 £412 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £468 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -30.74% +35.00%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £700
90th Percentile £700 £793 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £338 £431 £525
% change year-on-year -21.74% -17.86% +10.53%
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 3,296 4,224 6,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 7.42% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,675 2,751 4,345
10th Percentile £165 £186 £160
25th Percentile £213 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £394 £375
% change year-on-year -11.05% +4.93% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 628 267 422
10th Percentile £11.50 £14.32 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.11 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.03% +50.23% +19.44%
75th Percentile £38.51 £52.50 £47.19
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £27.38 £19.25
% change year-on-year -41.33% +42.24% +6.92%

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 18 May 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

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Top 14 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 18 May 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
Work from Home +274 204 £500 +17.65% 18
England +262 202 £500 +5.26% 36
UK excluding London +191 168 £338 -21.74% 13
North of England +115 93 - - 9
London +127 45 £500 -5.88% 20
Midlands +56 38 £264 -37.94%
North West +56 38 - - 3
Yorkshire +42 34 - - 2
North East - 21 - - 4
East Midlands +28 19 £190 -55.29%
West Midlands - 19 £338 -
South West +24 18 - -
Scotland +57 17 - -
East of England - 2 £500 - 2

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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 (0.87%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.17%) Azure
2 14 (6.11%) AWS
2 14 (6.11%) GCP
3 9 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (3.93%) Twilio
4 3 (1.31%) Azure Stack
4 3 (1.31%) SaaS
4 3 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (0.87%) IBM Watson
5 2 (0.87%) Power Automate
5 2 (0.87%) Power Platform
5 2 (0.87%) PowerApps
5 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Einstein
5 2 (0.87%) Vertex AI
6 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.44%) Figma
6 1 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.93%) CTI
1 9 (3.93%) VoIP
2 2 (0.87%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) LAN
3 1 (0.44%) MPLS
3 1 (0.44%) Multicast
3 1 (0.44%) Network Security
3 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.44%) WAN
3 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.87%) Power BI
2 1 (0.44%) MySQL
2 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (4.80%) Telecoms
2 10 (4.37%) Finance
3 9 (3.93%) Retail
3 9 (3.93%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (0.87%) Banking
4 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (0.87%) Legal
5 1 (0.44%) Danish Language
5 1 (0.44%) Marketing
5 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (83.84%) Developer
2 181 (79.04%) Software Developer
3 14 (6.11%) Architect
4 11 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 6 (2.62%) Consultant
7 4 (1.75%) Analyst
7 4 (1.75%) Business Analyst
7 4 (1.75%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (1.75%) Genesys Consultant
7 4 (1.75%) Lead
7 4 (1.75%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (1.75%) Product Lead
7 4 (1.75%) Product Owner
8 3 (1.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (1.31%) Azure Developer
9 2 (0.87%) Cloud Consultant
9 2 (0.87%) Platform Specialist
9 2 (0.87%) Power Platform Developer
9 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (53.28%) HTML
2 11 (4.80%) Web Services
3 9 (3.93%) Middleware
4 5 (2.18%) RESTful
5 1 (0.44%) Ajax
5 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.44%) CSS
5 1 (0.44%) LangChain
5 1 (0.44%) LDAP
5 1 (0.44%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.44%) REST
5 1 (0.44%) SOAP
5 1 (0.44%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.42%) IVR
2 8 (3.49%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.18%) Product Ownership
4 2 (0.87%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.44%) CMDB
5 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Windows
1 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 218 (95.20%) Artificial Intelligence
3 181 (79.04%) Code Quality
4 124 (54.15%) Software Engineering
5 18 (7.86%) Computer Science
6 17 (7.42%) Customer Experience
7 15 (6.55%) Analytics
8 13 (5.68%) DevOps
9 12 (5.24%) Agile
9 12 (5.24%) Machine Learning
9 12 (5.24%) WFM
10 11 (4.80%) CRM
11 10 (4.37%) Data Privacy
12 9 (3.93%) Capacity Planning
12 9 (3.93%) Knowledge Transfer
12 9 (3.93%) Load Balancing
12 9 (3.93%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (3.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (3.49%) Performance Testing
13 8 (3.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 125 (54.59%) Python
2 123 (53.71%) JavaScript
3 121 (52.84%) C#
3 121 (52.84%) SQL
4 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.44%) PHP
4 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 204 (89.08%) Degree
2 15 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.37%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.37%) Master's Degree
4 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.37%) GDPR
2 8 (3.49%) HIPAA
2 8 (3.49%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.49%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 181 (79.04%) PayPal
2 16 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.11%) Genesys
4 10 (4.37%) Avaya
4 10 (4.37%) Cisco
4 10 (4.37%) Google
5 8 (3.49%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.87%) IBM
6 2 (0.87%) UiPath
6 2 (0.87%) Workday
7 1 (0.44%) BMC
7 1 (0.44%) F5
7 1 (0.44%) HP
7 1 (0.44%) Ivanti
7 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow