Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £530 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £650 - £620

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 520 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.94% 90.43% 82.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 355 397
10th Percentile £263 £200 £238
25th Percentile £401 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +10.81% -6.57%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £663 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -0.94% +3.54% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.04 £13.48
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.76 £56.85 £68.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.04% +29.94%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in Birmingham

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (33.33%) SpaCy
2 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Image Processing
3 1 (33.33%) KYC
3 1 (33.33%) OCR
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes