Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 0.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £330 £310 -
25th Percentile £342 £329 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £348 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% - -
75th Percentile £381 £356 -
90th Percentile £385 - -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 565 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.05% 85.48% 83.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 338 441
10th Percentile £185 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £626 £632 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 51
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.23 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Natural Language Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Northamptonshire -10 4 £375 +7.76% 5
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) A/B Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Fintech
1 2 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft