Natural Language Processing Jobs

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 646 744 487
Rank change year-on-year +98 -257 +94
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 262 230 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.22% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 135 145 317
10th Percentile £46,306 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £108,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.63% - +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +97 193 £77,500 +10.71% 120
UK excluding London +27 124 £70,576 +17.63% 51
London +125 119 £88,750 +22.41% 68
Work from Home +74 96 £70,576 +8.36% 69
Scotland -8 60 £48,779 -11.38% 2
South East +27 24 £77,500 +19.23% 26
South West -11 22 £65,000 +18.09% 7
North of England +28 10 £62,783 +4.64% 7
Yorkshire +95 6 £70,576 -5.90%
Midlands -9 5 £75,000 +16.28% 2
East Midlands -13 3 £40,000 +6.67% 1
West Midlands +19 2 £75,000 +3.81% 1
North West +4 2 £61,391 +11.62% 6
East of England +3 2 £75,500 -11.18% 9
North East - 2 £62,783 - 1
Wales +10 1 £67,500 +22.63%

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 18 (6.87%) SAS
2 12 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.53%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.15%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.29%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.29%) Simulink
2 6 (2.29%) Stateflow
3 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.57%) AWS
2 45 (17.18%) GCP
3 43 (16.41%) Azure
4 18 (6.87%) Amazon SageMaker
5 13 (4.96%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.20%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.91%) ChatGPT
8 5 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.91%) SaaS
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.15%) Slack
9 3 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Serverless
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.38%) npm
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.38%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) Firewall
1 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.15%) SSL
2 1 (0.38%) AMQP
2 1 (0.38%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) OFDM
2 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.38%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.36%) Tableau
2 26 (9.92%) Big Data
3 13 (4.96%) MySQL
4 12 (4.58%) Power BI
5 11 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.05%) Data Mining
6 8 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.05%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.67%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.29%) Text Mining
9 4 (1.53%) DTS
10 3 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.76%) Metadata
11 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (20.23%) Git
2 5 (1.91%) JIRA
3 4 (1.53%) MLflow
4 3 (1.15%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.15%) ERwin
4 3 (1.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.76%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.38%) git-flow
6 1 (0.38%) Mocha
6 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 88 (33.59%) Finance
3 56 (21.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (19.47%) Law
5 41 (15.65%) Marketing
6 25 (9.54%) Banking
7 14 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.20%) Games
9 11 (4.20%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.82%) Korean Language
11 4 (1.53%) Legal
12 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Electronics
13 2 (0.76%) Retail
14 1 (0.38%) Hindi Language
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (40.08%) Data Scientist
2 74 (28.24%) Senior Data Scientist
3 73 (27.86%) Senior
4 24 (9.16%) Lead
5 23 (8.78%) Lead Data Scientist
5 23 (8.78%) Software Engineer
5 23 (8.78%) Software Engineering Director
6 19 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 17 (6.49%) Developer
8 15 (5.73%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.73%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 13 (4.96%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.20%) Analyst
10 11 (4.20%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.44%) Principal Data Scientist
12 8 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 8 (3.05%) Data Analyst
12 8 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.67%) Audit Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (34.35%) TensorFlow
2 67 (25.57%) PyTorch
3 64 (24.43%) Pandas
4 56 (21.37%) scikit-learn
5 29 (11.07%) PySpark
6 23 (8.78%) SpaCy
7 22 (8.40%) Keras
8 21 (8.02%) XGBoost
9 19 (7.25%) NumPy
10 17 (6.49%) REST
11 14 (5.34%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.34%) React
12 13 (4.96%) Flask
12 13 (4.96%) JPA
12 13 (4.96%) Kafka
12 13 (4.96%) Spring
13 11 (4.20%) MXNet
14 10 (3.82%) EDI
15 8 (3.05%) Apache Beam
16 6 (2.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 83 (31.68%) Algorithms
2 32 (12.21%) Data Structures
3 23 (8.78%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.67%) Robotics
6 6 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.76%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.76%) Semantic Web
9 2 (0.76%) Social Network
9 2 (0.76%) W3C
10 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.38%) CUDA
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
10 1 (0.38%) iPad
10 1 (0.38%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.58%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (1.15%) Windows
2 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (93.13%) Machine Learning
2 219 (83.59%) Artificial Intelligence
3 163 (62.21%) Data Science
4 101 (38.55%) Mathematics
5 98 (37.40%) Agile
6 91 (34.73%) Deep Learning
6 91 (34.73%) Visualisation
7 83 (31.68%) Generative AI
8 82 (31.30%) LLM
9 80 (30.53%) Computer Science
9 80 (30.53%) Statistics
10 79 (30.15%) Decision-Making
11 78 (29.77%) Computer Vision
11 78 (29.77%) Software Engineering
12 64 (24.43%) Neural Network
13 62 (23.66%) MLOps
14 59 (22.52%) Analytics
15 42 (16.03%) Predictive Modelling
16 40 (15.27%) Actionable Insight
16 40 (15.27%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 179 (68.32%) Python
2 111 (42.37%) SQL
3 32 (12.21%) Java
4 21 (8.02%) R
5 15 (5.73%) C
6 8 (3.05%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.67%) C++
8 5 (1.91%) C#
9 4 (1.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 126 (48.09%) Degree
2 62 (23.66%) Master's Degree
3 46 (17.56%) PhD
4 28 (10.69%) DBS Check
5 17 (6.49%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.44%) GDPR
2 7 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.76%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 15 (5.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (4.20%) Terraform
2 5 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.76%) Core Impact
3 2 (0.76%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.38%) Grafana
4 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (19.85%) Databricks
2 23 (8.78%) Google
3 14 (5.34%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.34%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.96%) Dataiku
4 13 (4.96%) Oracle
5 10 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.05%) Facebook
7 4 (1.53%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.53%) Dell
8 3 (1.15%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.15%) Embarcadero
8 3 (1.15%) Informatica
9 2 (0.76%) Sage
10 1 (0.38%) Samsung