Natural Language Processing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 423 517
Rank change year-on-year +111 +94 -63
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 37 43 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 32 91
10th Percentile £350 £413 £475
25th Percentile £452 £438 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -15.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £1,100 -
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - -7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Natural Language Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Natural Language Processing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Natural Language Processing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.11%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 7 (18.92%) GCP
3 7 (18.92%) Serverless
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
4 5 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (10.81%) OpenShift
5 4 (10.81%) Rekognition
5 4 (10.81%) Textract
6 3 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.41%) PaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.70%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Big Data
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.41%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Git
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
2 3 (8.11%) Health Technology
2 3 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Czech Language
3 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.41%) Retail
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Consultant
1 8 (21.62%) Data Scientist
1 8 (21.62%) Senior
2 5 (13.51%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) HR Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Scientist
4 3 (8.11%) Technology Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Automation Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Automation Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) QA Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) AWS CDK
2 4 (10.81%) XGBoost
3 3 (8.11%) EDI
3 3 (8.11%) Matplotlib
3 3 (8.11%) Pandas
3 3 (8.11%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) LangChain
5 1 (2.70%) NumPy
5 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.70%) FMCG
4 1 (2.70%) IVR
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Machine Learning
2 25 (67.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 15 (40.54%) Data Science
4 10 (27.03%) Data Analysis
5 9 (24.32%) Agile
5 9 (24.32%) Deep Learning
6 8 (21.62%) Scrum
6 8 (21.62%) User Experience
7 7 (18.92%) LLM
8 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
8 6 (16.22%) ETL
9 5 (13.51%) Analytics
9 5 (13.51%) Coaching
9 5 (13.51%) Generative AI
9 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.51%) Kanban
9 5 (13.51%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.51%) Product Management
9 5 (13.51%) Service Design
10 4 (10.81%) LSTM
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 7 (18.92%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.22%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Grafana
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) OpenAI
2 4 (10.81%) Google
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Databricks
3 3 (8.11%) Phenom
4 1 (2.70%) Ariba