Natural Language Processing Contracts in England

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 416 472 560
Rank change year-on-year +56 +88 +117
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 69 70 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 43 59
10th Percentile £416 £340 £425
25th Percentile £449 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £701
90th Percentile £800 £735 £1,064
UK median daily rate £516 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -0.05% -6.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% - -
75th Percentile £26.13 - -
90th Percentile £26.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -66.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
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 Natural Language Processing within the England 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
London +25 48 £520 -9.17% 278
North of England - 13 £473 - 74
North West - 11 £473 - 39
South West +48 3 £558 +23.89% 43
Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 26
North East - 1 £350 - 9
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (7.25%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.90%) Drupal
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.45%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.45%) Shopify
1 1 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) AWS
2 18 (26.09%) Azure
3 14 (20.29%) Serverless
4 12 (17.39%) Amazon SageMaker
5 10 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 9 (13.04%) AWS CodeCommit
6 9 (13.04%) Cloud9 IDE
6 9 (13.04%) GCP
6 9 (13.04%) Textract
7 6 (8.70%) Azure AI
8 4 (5.80%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (5.80%) GitHub
8 4 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.80%) Google Gemini
8 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.80%) Vertex AI
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.59%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.80%) Data Mining
3 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
3 4 (5.80%) Tableau
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.45%) KDB
5 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.45%) OLAP
5 1 (1.45%) OLTP
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 3 (4.35%) MLflow
3 1 (1.45%) ERwin
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 15 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
4 6 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 6 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.80%) Legal
6 3 (4.35%) Military
6 3 (4.35%) Retail
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
8 1 (1.45%) Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Data Scientist
2 10 (14.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) Senior
4 7 (10.14%) Developer
5 6 (8.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Gen AI Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Architect
7 3 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Product Lead
7 3 (4.35%) QA Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.90%) Machine Learning Developer
9 1 (1.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.45%) Product Owner
9 1 (1.45%) Quantitative Strategist
9 1 (1.45%) Search Engineer
9 1 (1.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.43%) PyTorch
2 20 (28.99%) TensorFlow
3 14 (20.29%) scikit-learn
4 13 (18.84%) Pandas
5 12 (17.39%) NumPy
6 10 (14.49%) LangChain
6 10 (14.49%) pydantic
7 9 (13.04%) OpenCV
7 9 (13.04%) SciPy
8 4 (5.80%) Hugging Face
8 4 (5.80%) Regular Expression
8 4 (5.80%) REST
9 3 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (4.35%) XGBoost
10 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.90%) Matplotlib
10 2 (2.90%) Plotly
10 2 (2.90%) React
10 2 (2.90%) SpaCy
11 1 (1.45%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.45%) Life Science
6 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (84.06%) Artificial Intelligence
1 58 (84.06%) Machine Learning
2 39 (56.52%) Data Science
3 28 (40.58%) LLM
4 22 (31.88%) CI/CD
5 19 (27.54%) Deep Learning
5 19 (27.54%) Generative AI
6 18 (26.09%) Computer Vision
7 17 (24.64%) Visualisation
8 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (21.74%) Agile
9 15 (21.74%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (17.39%) Decision-Making
11 11 (15.94%) Mathematics
11 11 (15.94%) MLOps
12 10 (14.49%) DevOps
12 10 (14.49%) SDLC
13 9 (13.04%) Data Munging
13 9 (13.04%) Statistical Inference
13 9 (13.04%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 55 (79.71%) Python
2 21 (30.43%) SQL
3 7 (10.14%) Scala
4 5 (7.25%) R
5 4 (5.80%) Clojure
5 4 (5.80%) Elixir
5 4 (5.80%) Rust
5 4 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.90%) Java
6 2 (2.90%) PHP
7 1 (1.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.45%) C#
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.45%) ISEB
5 1 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) QA
3 4 (5.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Microsoft
1 11 (15.94%) Oracle
2 5 (7.25%) Google
3 3 (4.35%) Databricks
3 3 (4.35%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.90%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) Adobe
5 1 (1.45%) Ariba
5 1 (1.45%) Informatica
5 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.45%) Sparx