Natural Language Understanding Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Natural Language Understanding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.059% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Natural Language Understanding 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 1,469 1,205 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.97% 92.84% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 662 998
10th Percentile £284 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £408 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.65%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £606
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 35 93
10th Percentile £18.87 £27.35 £20.49
25th Percentile £28.00 £47.06 £42.50
Median hourly rate £76.80 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.89% +0.81% -5.68%
75th Percentile £95.00 £65.17 £68.75
90th Percentile £107.00 £83.65 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%

Natural Language Understanding
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Natural Language Understanding job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Natural Language Understanding
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 Understanding within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 19 February 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 - 1 - -
Natural Language Understanding
South East

Natural Language Understanding
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD