Natural Language Processing Contracts in Central London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 130 167
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 +23
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 9 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £458
25th Percentile £400 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.02%
75th Percentile £534 - £584
90th Percentile £583 - £624
London median daily rate £520 £573 £575
% change year-on-year -9.17% -0.43% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Central London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in Central London

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in Central London

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +12 7 £400 - 4
West End of London - 2 £520 - 2
City of Westminster - 1 £520 - 1
Natural Language Processing
London

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud9 IDE
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) Textract
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) KDB
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Scientist
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Quantitative Strategist
3 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) NumPy
1 3 (33.33%) OpenCV
1 3 (33.33%) Pandas
1 3 (33.33%) pydantic
1 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 3 (33.33%) SciPy
1 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (11.11%) Plotly
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Educational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Machine Learning
3 5 (55.56%) Data Science
4 4 (44.44%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (44.44%) Deep Learning
4 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Vision
5 3 (33.33%) Data Munging
5 3 (33.33%) LLM
5 3 (33.33%) Statistical Inference
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Conversational UI
6 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Product Requirements
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle