Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 69 89
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.63% 0.61% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.72% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £514 £449 £433
25th Percentile £516 £466 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £479
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £541 - £537
90th Percentile £546 - £548
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £503
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 697 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.15% 85.42% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 365 622
10th Percentile £307 £223 £226
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Edinburgh

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
1 4 (100.00%) Textract
2 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) SpaCy
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) MLOps
2 3 (75.00%) OCR
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes