The first table below looks at the demand for Natural Language Processing skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Natural Language Processing
Rank 837 864 865
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +1
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 25 34 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.028% 0.006%
As % of the Application Development category 0.057% 0.068% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 24 30 7
Average salary £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.43% -2.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,750 £47,750 £62,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £30,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year
+50.00% +20.00%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43651 50308 50336
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.59% 41.67% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 37945 44694 44510
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,844 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

Natural Language Processing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Natural Language Processing Jobs Demand Trend

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the UK.

Natural Language Processing Salary Trend

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Natural Language Processing Salary Histogram

Natural Language Processing
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +14 24 £45,000 +8.43%
South East - 18 £45,000 -
Berkshire - 18 £45,000 -
London +17 4 £65,000 +44.44%
Cambridge +4 2 £42,500 +41.66%
City of London +4 2 £72,500 +61.11%
East of England +2 2 £42,500 +41.66%
Cambridgeshire +1 2 £42,500 +41.66%
Scotland - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -

Natural Language Processing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Natural Language Processing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Natural Language Processing.

1 46 (65.71%) Text Mining
2 41 (58.57%) Big Data
3 39 (55.71%) JavaScript
4 38 (54.29%) HTML
5 36 (51.43%) .NET
6 35 (50.00%) Internet
6 35 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 33 (47.14%) Android
8 32 (45.71%) CSS
9 31 (44.29%) SQL Server
9 31 (44.29%) C#
9 31 (44.29%) Visual Studio
9 31 (44.29%) MapReduce
10 30 (42.86%) Analytics
10 30 (42.86%) MVC
10 30 (42.86%) jQuery
10 30 (42.86%) WPF
10 30 (42.86%) TeamCity
10 30 (42.86%) Subversion
10 30 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
11 28 (40.00%) SaaS
12 27 (38.57%) Apple iOS
13 23 (32.86%) Java
14 22 (31.43%) ASP
14 22 (31.43%) ASP.NET
14 22 (31.43%) ASP.NET MVC
14 22 (31.43%) MonoTouch
14 22 (31.43%) Social Media
14 22 (31.43%) WCF
14 22 (31.43%) Web Development

Natural Language Processing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Natural Language Processing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Natural Language Processing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (54.29%) HTML
2 36 (51.43%) .NET
3 32 (45.71%) CSS
4 31 (44.29%) MapReduce
5 30 (42.86%) jQuery
5 30 (42.86%) WPF
6 22 (31.43%) ASP
6 22 (31.43%) ASP.NET
6 22 (31.43%) ASP.NET MVC
6 22 (31.43%) MonoTouch
6 22 (31.43%) WCF
6 22 (31.43%) Lucene
7 14 (20.00%) Web Services
8 8 (11.43%) JSON
8 8 (11.43%) .NET Framework
8 8 (11.43%) WinForms
8 8 (11.43%) REST
8 8 (11.43%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (8.571%) XML
9 6 (8.571%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.571%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.429%) SAS
2 1 (1.429%) Apache Pig
2 1 (1.429%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 1 (1.429%) SPSS
1 1 (1.429%) MS Office
1 1 (1.429%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (50.00%) Internet
2 8 (11.43%) HTTP
3 6 (8.571%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (65.71%) Text Mining
2 41 (58.57%) Big Data
3 35 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 31 (44.29%) SQL Server
5 30 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
6 14 (20.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (8.571%) MySQL
8 5 (7.143%) MongoDB
8 5 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (7.143%) Hadoop
9 3 (4.286%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.857%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 1 (1.429%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (44.29%) Visual Studio
2 30 (42.86%) TeamCity
2 30 (42.86%) Subversion
3 22 (31.43%) JIRA
4 4 (5.714%) Maven
5 3 (4.286%) GitHub
6 2 (2.857%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (1.429%) Bugzilla
7 1 (1.429%) JUnit
7 1 (1.429%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.429%) Mercurial
7 1 (1.429%) NUnit
7 1 (1.429%) SCons
7 1 (1.429%) GoogleTest
7 1 (1.429%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.429%) GCC
General
1 6 (8.571%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (4.286%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.286%) Games
3 2 (2.857%) Advertising
4 1 (1.429%) Finance
4 1 (1.429%) Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Developer
2 22 (31.43%) .NET Developer
2 22 (31.43%) C# Developer
2 22 (31.43%) ASP.NET Developer
2 22 (31.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 22 (31.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 22 (31.43%) WPF Developer
3 10 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) UI Developer
4 8 (11.43%) Web Developer
4 8 (11.43%) UI Programmer
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.571%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.286%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.286%) Development Manager
7 3 (4.286%) iPhone Developer
8 2 (2.857%) Data Scientist
8 2 (2.857%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (2.857%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (1.429%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.00%) SaaS
2 22 (31.43%) Social Media
3 16 (22.86%) Machine Learning
4 11 (15.71%) Grid Computing
5 10 (14.29%) Chemistry
5 10 (14.29%) Life Science
6 8 (11.43%) Semantic Web
7 7 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (8.571%) Smartphone
8 6 (8.571%) Open Source
9 5 (7.143%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.143%) Mathematics
10 4 (5.714%) Ontologies
11 3 (4.286%) iPhone
12 2 (2.857%) Statistics
12 2 (2.857%) PKI
12 2 (2.857%) Blackberry
13 1 (1.429%) Client/Server
13 1 (1.429%) Visualisation
13 1 (1.429%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 33 (47.14%) Android
2 27 (38.57%) Apple iOS
3 5 (7.143%) Windows
4 3 (4.286%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (42.86%) Analytics
1 30 (42.86%) MVC
2 22 (31.43%) Web Development
3 10 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 7 (10.00%) OO
5 6 (8.571%) Bioinformatics
5 6 (8.571%) TDD
5 6 (8.571%) Business Development
5 6 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.571%) B2B
6 5 (7.143%) Multithreading
7 4 (5.714%) RDF
8 3 (4.286%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (2.857%) BDD
9 2 (2.857%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.857%) Data Modelling
10 1 (1.429%) OOP
10 1 (1.429%) Software Architecture
10 1 (1.429%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (55.71%) JavaScript
2 31 (44.29%) C#
3 23 (32.86%) Java
4 21 (30.00%) Python
5 10 (14.29%) C++
6 8 (11.43%) Perl
7 6 (8.571%) Scala
7 6 (8.571%) Clojure
7 6 (8.571%) Erlang
8 3 (4.286%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.857%) Ruby
9 2 (2.857%) C
9 2 (2.857%) SQL
10 1 (1.429%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.429%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.429%) PHP
10 1 (1.429%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.429%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) Postgraduate
3 4 (5.714%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.714%) Google
2 4 (5.714%) Oracle
3 2 (2.857%) Appcelerator
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