Computational Linguistics Contract Job Trends in England

Computational Linguistics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Computational Linguistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 476 555
Rank change year-on-year -102 +79 +129
Contract jobs citing Computational Linguistics 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% 0.012% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.013% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £338 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.83%
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £375 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -47.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Computational Linguistics 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,916 22,554 32,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.61% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,413 14,598 21,798
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,990 810 2,146
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

Computational Linguistics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computational Linguistics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Computational Linguistics job vacancy trend in England

Computational Linguistics
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computational Linguistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computational Linguistics

Computational Linguistics
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computational Linguistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computational Linguistics

Computational Linguistics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computational Linguistics within the England region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
London -45 2 £375 - 3
Computational Linguistics
UK

Computational Linguistics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI