Natural Language Processing Contracts in Edinburgh

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 93 125
Rank change year-on-year +25 +32 -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 6 17 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.74% 1.31% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.38% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 2
10th Percentile - £432 -
25th Percentile £460 £438 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £590
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -20.42% -
75th Percentile £480 £508 £610
90th Percentile £497 - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £590
% change year-on-year -2.63% -19.49% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Natural Language Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,231 1,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.99% 95.20% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 879 1,251
10th Percentile £235 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £670 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Edinburgh

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in Edinburgh

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (83.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Rekognition
3 1 (16.67%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Automation Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Audit Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) PostGIS
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Kanban
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Product Management
3 4 (66.67%) Service Design
4 2 (33.33%) OCR
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google