Natural Language Processing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 641 570
Rank change year-on-year +3 -71 +26
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 126 91 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.15% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.16% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 67 36 91
10th Percentile £46,306 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £57,522 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.69% -4.13% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,375 £78,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £89,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £76,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.29% -6.67% +14.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,517 56,713 67,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.88% 95.60% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 41,130 29,106 41,055
10th Percentile £27,218 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland 0 61 £48,779 -11.38% 2
South East +9 25 £77,500 +19.23% 17
South West -16 24 £65,000 +18.09% 8
North of England +35 10 £62,783 +14.15% 9
Yorkshire +92 6 £70,576 -
Midlands -13 4 £57,500 -20.42% 4
East Midlands -18 3 £40,000 +6.67% 1
North West -7 2 £61,391 +11.62% 7
East of England -8 2 £75,500 +0.67% 6
North East - 2 £62,783 - 2
West Midlands +11 1 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (7.94%) SAS
2 6 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.76%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.76%) Simulink
2 6 (4.76%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.46%) AWS
2 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (6.35%) GCP
3 7 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.97%) Azure
6 4 (3.17%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.38%) Slack
7 3 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.79%) PaaS
8 1 (0.79%) Serverless
8 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) Firewall
1 3 (2.38%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (0.79%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.79%) OFDM
2 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.79%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) Big Data
2 13 (10.32%) MySQL
3 8 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.76%) Power BI
5 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.59%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.79%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.79%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.79%) Redis
7 1 (0.79%) RethinkDB
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.90%) Git
2 4 (3.17%) JIRA
3 3 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 73 (57.94%) Finance
2 47 (37.30%) Law
3 44 (34.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (25.40%) Marketing
5 24 (19.05%) Banking
6 23 (18.25%) Social Skills
7 10 (7.94%) Korean Language
8 9 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.17%) Games
11 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (26.98%) Data Scientist
2 24 (19.05%) Software Engineering Director
3 21 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 19 (15.08%) Senior
4 19 (15.08%) Senior Data Scientist
5 16 (12.70%) Developer
6 10 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Lead
6 10 (7.94%) Lead Data Scientist
6 10 (7.94%) Project Manager
7 8 (6.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 8 (6.35%) Python Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Analyst
9 6 (4.76%) Audit Analyst
9 6 (4.76%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.76%) Junior
9 6 (4.76%) Junior Data Scientist
10 5 (3.97%) Data Science Analyst
10 5 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.60%) Pandas
2 30 (23.81%) PyTorch
3 26 (20.63%) TensorFlow
4 17 (13.49%) SpaCy
5 15 (11.90%) Keras
6 14 (11.11%) scikit-learn
7 13 (10.32%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.32%) JPA
7 13 (10.32%) NumPy
7 13 (10.32%) React
7 13 (10.32%) REST
7 13 (10.32%) Spring
7 13 (10.32%) XGBoost
8 10 (7.94%) EDI
9 7 (5.56%) Flask
10 5 (3.97%) Statsmodels
11 4 (3.17%) SciPy
12 3 (2.38%) MLlib
12 3 (2.38%) MXNet
13 2 (1.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.40%) Algorithms
2 24 (19.05%) Cloud Native
3 21 (16.67%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (5.56%) Robotics
5 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.38%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.79%) iPad
6 1 (0.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (93.65%) Machine Learning
2 104 (82.54%) Artificial Intelligence
3 79 (62.70%) Agile
4 58 (46.03%) Visualisation
5 55 (43.65%) Data Science
6 53 (42.06%) Software Engineering
7 46 (36.51%) Decision-Making
8 44 (34.92%) Computer Vision
9 35 (27.78%) Deep Learning
10 33 (26.19%) LLM
10 33 (26.19%) Mathematics
11 29 (23.02%) Analytics
11 29 (23.02%) Computer Science
12 28 (22.22%) Decision Tree
13 27 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (20.63%) Data Ingestion
14 26 (20.63%) Random Forest
15 25 (19.84%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 25 (19.84%) Statistical Modelling
16 24 (19.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 69 (54.76%) Python
2 37 (29.37%) SQL
3 17 (13.49%) Java
4 6 (4.76%) MATLAB
5 3 (2.38%) Bash
6 2 (1.59%) C
6 2 (1.59%) R
7 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (24.60%) Degree
2 15 (11.90%) PhD
3 8 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (10.32%) Oracle
2 11 (8.73%) Databricks
3 10 (7.94%) Salesforce
4 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.35%) Facebook
5 8 (6.35%) Google
6 6 (4.76%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.97%) Dataiku