Natural Language Processing Contracts

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 597 681
Rank change year-on-year +99 +84 -90
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 80 119 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 79 151
10th Percentile £350 £425 £438
25th Percentile £450 £455 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +3.23%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £700
90th Percentile £735 £1,055 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £508 £483
% change year-on-year -8.96% +5.28% -7.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +86 70 £564 -1.96% 117
London +119 61 £574 -0.22% 68
Work from Home +121 37 £529 +8.51% 69
UK excluding London +16 14 £463 -8.96% 49
Scotland +30 10 £463 -2.63% 1
South East +11 3 £274 -52.39% 23
South West +21 1 £450 -30.77% 8

Natural Language Processing
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 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.75%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) Serverless
3 15 (18.75%) Azure
4 13 (16.25%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.25%) GCP
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (7.50%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.00%) Rekognition
9 4 (5.00%) Textract
9 4 (5.00%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.75%) Lucidchart
11 2 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.50%) PaaS
11 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.50%) SaaS
12 1 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (8.75%) Big Data
3 5 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Power BI
7 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) MLflow
3 1 (1.25%) RStudio
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.25%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.75%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Czech Language
7 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Police
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.75%) Data Scientist
2 12 (15.00%) Consultant
3 10 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Senior
5 8 (10.00%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (5.00%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Contract Management Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (5.00%) Product Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Computer Vision Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) HR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 13 (16.25%) PyTorch
3 11 (13.75%) AWS CDK
4 7 (8.75%) scikit-learn
5 6 (7.50%) XGBoost
6 3 (3.75%) EDI
6 3 (3.75%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.75%) OpenCV
6 3 (3.75%) Pandas
7 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.50%) PostGIS
7 2 (2.50%) REST
7 2 (2.50%) RESTful
8 1 (1.25%) Anaconda
8 1 (1.25%) BentoML
8 1 (1.25%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.25%) LangChain
8 1 (1.25%) Node.js
8 1 (1.25%) Prisma
8 1 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (3.75%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.50%) Social Media
5 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) FMCG
5 1 (1.25%) IVR
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (83.75%) Machine Learning
2 60 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 35 (43.75%) Data Science
4 23 (28.75%) Deep Learning
5 16 (20.00%) LLM
6 15 (18.75%) Agile
7 14 (17.50%) Data Analysis
8 13 (16.25%) Analytics
8 13 (16.25%) Computer Science
9 12 (15.00%) Scrum
10 9 (11.25%) Generative AI
10 9 (11.25%) Kanban
10 9 (11.25%) User Experience
11 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 8 (10.00%) Computer Vision
11 8 (10.00%) ETL
12 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
12 7 (8.75%) Product Management
12 7 (8.75%) Service Design
12 7 (8.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (61.25%) Python
2 14 (17.50%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) Java
4 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.50%) C++
5 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.50%) R
5 2 (2.50%) Scala
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) C#
6 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.75%) PhD
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Grafana
2 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (7.50%) Google
2 5 (6.25%) Ariba
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) Genesys
4 3 (3.75%) Phenom
5 1 (1.25%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.25%) DataRobot