Natural Language Processing Contracts in the City of London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 161
Rank change year-on-year +9 +38 +25
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 10 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.53% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile - - £603
25th Percentile £400 £813 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £825 £663
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +24.53% +12.77%
75th Percentile £575 £838 £767
90th Percentile £580 - £875
Central London median daily rate £550 £825 £706
% change year-on-year -33.33% +16.81% +20.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,766 1,947 3,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.99% 91.41% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 1,332 2,101
10th Percentile £338 £363 £344
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £679 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 21
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.36 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £56.75 £55.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £101.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -15.66%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the City of London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the City of London

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the City of London

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Chatbot
2 3 (30.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Figma
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (30.00%) IBM Watson
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (60.00%) Conversational UI
3 6 (60.00%) LLM
4 4 (40.00%) Conversational AI
4 4 (40.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) UX Design
5 3 (30.00%) Content Writing
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (20.00%) Deep Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) PhD
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Genesys
2 3 (30.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) UiPath