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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 738 474
Rank change year-on-year +89 -264 +122
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 272 230 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.22% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 137 146 324
10th Percentile £46,050 £48,750 £49,110
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,000 £112,500 £108,375
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 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
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 £81,500 £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 5 May 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 5 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
England +98 202 £77,500 +10.71% 146
London +127 128 £87,500 +16.67% 89
UK excluding London +24 126 £70,576 +17.63% 58
Work from Home +81 105 £70,576 +8.47% 77
Scotland -10 61 £48,779 -11.38% 2
South East +32 24 £77,500 +19.23% 30
South West -19 23 £65,000 +10.60% 9
North of England +36 10 £62,783 +4.64% 6
Yorkshire +87 6 £70,576 -5.90%
Midlands +9 5 £75,000 +16.28% 1
East Midlands -12 3 £40,000 +6.67% 1
West Midlands +13 2 £75,000 +3.81%
East of England +7 2 £75,500 -11.18% 8
North West 0 2 £61,391 +11.62% 6
North East - 2 £62,783 -
Wales +9 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 (6.62%) SAS
2 14 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.47%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.10%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.21%) Simulink
3 6 (2.21%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.26%) AWS
2 44 (16.18%) GCP
3 43 (15.81%) Azure
4 18 (6.62%) Amazon SageMaker
5 13 (4.78%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.04%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.84%) ChatGPT
8 5 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.84%) SaaS
9 3 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.10%) Serverless
9 3 (1.10%) Slack
9 3 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.74%) Dialogflow
10 2 (0.74%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Firewall
1 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.10%) SSL
2 1 (0.37%) AMQP
2 1 (0.37%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.37%) OFDM
2 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.37%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.44%) Tableau
2 26 (9.56%) Big Data
3 13 (4.78%) MySQL
4 12 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.41%) Power BI
5 9 (3.31%) Data Mining
6 8 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.57%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.21%) Text Mining
9 4 (1.47%) DTS
10 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.74%) Metadata
11 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 60 (22.06%) Git
2 5 (1.84%) JIRA
3 4 (1.47%) MLflow
4 3 (1.10%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.10%) ERwin
4 3 (1.10%) GitLab
5 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.74%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.37%) git-flow
6 1 (0.37%) Mocha
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 90 (33.09%) Finance
3 58 (21.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (19.49%) Law
5 42 (15.44%) Marketing
6 25 (9.19%) Banking
7 15 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.04%) Games
9 11 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.68%) Korean Language
11 5 (1.84%) Legal
12 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Electronics
13 2 (0.74%) Retail
13 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.37%) Front Office
14 1 (0.37%) Hindi Language
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (41.54%) Data Scientist
2 81 (29.78%) Senior
2 81 (29.78%) Senior Data Scientist
3 24 (8.82%) Lead
3 24 (8.82%) Software Engineering Director
4 23 (8.46%) Lead Data Scientist
4 23 (8.46%) Software Engineer
5 19 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 17 (6.25%) Developer
7 16 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 13 (4.78%) Python Engineer
10 11 (4.04%) Analyst
10 11 (4.04%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.31%) Principal Data Scientist
12 8 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 8 (2.94%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.57%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (36.03%) TensorFlow
2 71 (26.10%) Pandas
3 67 (24.63%) PyTorch
4 63 (23.16%) scikit-learn
5 36 (13.24%) PySpark
6 23 (8.46%) Keras
7 22 (8.09%) SpaCy
8 21 (7.72%) XGBoost
9 19 (6.99%) NumPy
10 17 (6.25%) REST
11 14 (5.15%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.15%) React
12 13 (4.78%) Flask
12 13 (4.78%) JPA
12 13 (4.78%) Kafka
12 13 (4.78%) Spring
13 11 (4.04%) MXNet
14 10 (3.68%) EDI
15 8 (2.94%) Apache Beam
16 6 (2.21%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 90 (33.09%) Algorithms
2 32 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 24 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.57%) Robotics
6 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.74%) Cybercrime
8 2 (0.74%) Femtech
8 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.74%) Semantic Web
8 2 (0.74%) Social Network
8 2 (0.74%) W3C
9 1 (0.37%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.37%) CUDA
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.37%) IoT
9 1 (0.37%) iPad
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.41%) Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Windows
2 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (93.38%) Machine Learning
2 229 (84.19%) Artificial Intelligence
3 172 (63.24%) Data Science
4 110 (40.44%) Mathematics
5 100 (36.76%) Agile
5 100 (36.76%) Visualisation
6 91 (33.46%) Deep Learning
7 90 (33.09%) Generative AI
8 87 (31.99%) Decision-Making
8 87 (31.99%) Statistics
9 81 (29.78%) Computer Science
9 81 (29.78%) LLM
10 78 (28.68%) Computer Vision
10 78 (28.68%) Software Engineering
11 71 (26.10%) Neural Network
12 69 (25.37%) MLOps
13 61 (22.43%) Analytics
14 49 (18.01%) Predictive Modelling
15 47 (17.28%) Actionable Insight
15 47 (17.28%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 187 (68.75%) Python
2 119 (43.75%) SQL
3 33 (12.13%) Java
4 20 (7.35%) R
5 14 (5.15%) C
6 8 (2.94%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.21%) C++
8 5 (1.84%) C#
9 4 (1.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.37%) Scala
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 132 (48.53%) Degree
2 67 (24.63%) Master's Degree
3 45 (16.54%) PhD
4 35 (12.87%) DBS Check
5 17 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.94%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.31%) GDPR
2 6 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 15 (5.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (4.04%) Terraform
2 5 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.74%) Core Impact
3 2 (0.74%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (22.06%) Databricks
2 23 (8.46%) Google
3 14 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.15%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.78%) Dataiku
4 13 (4.78%) Oracle
5 10 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.94%) Facebook
7 4 (1.47%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.47%) Dell
8 3 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.10%) Embarcadero
8 3 (1.10%) Informatica
9 2 (0.74%) IBM
9 2 (0.74%) Sage
10 1 (0.37%) Samsung