Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 92 105
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 10 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.53% 0.25% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.28% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £490 £462 -
25th Percentile £626 £495 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% - -
75th Percentile £788 £575 -
90th Percentile - £590 -
South East median daily rate £775 £495 £400
% change year-on-year +56.57% +23.75% -36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.20 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £28.41 - £28.50
75th Percentile £29.61 - £29.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £28.41 - £28.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Natural Language Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,541 1,084 1,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.75% 91.79% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 663 768
10th Percentile £350 £350 £314
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £622 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 43 77
10th Percentile £24.33 £14.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £58.59 £17.40 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.58 £32.05 £60.60
Median % change year-on-year +160.76% -47.11% +3.15%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.45 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £53.20 £24.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +121.67% -58.15% +14.70%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Natural Language Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Natural Language Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in Berkshire

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -22 5 £775 +34.78%
Slough - 5 £500 - 1
Natural Language Processing
South East

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) Text Mining
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (10.00%) Information Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Science
2 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (60.00%) Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) AI
5 4 (40.00%) Generative AI
5 4 (40.00%) LLM
5 4 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
7 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Full Text Search
7 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
7 2 (20.00%) Semantic Search
7 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
7 2 (20.00%) Text Analytics
7 2 (20.00%) Use Case
8 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree