Natural Language Processing Contracts in England

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 570 676
Rank change year-on-year +105 +106 -136
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 70 93 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 59 76
10th Percentile £340 £425 £488
25th Percentile £425 £478 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £630 £701 £700
90th Percentile £735 £1,064 £775
UK median daily rate £517 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - -7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Natural Language Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +108 61 £573 -0.43% 58
South East +16 3 £274 -52.39% 24
South West +20 1 £450 -30.77% 7
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 6 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.86%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.86%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (4.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.86%) AWS
2 15 (21.43%) Azure
3 8 (11.43%) GCP
4 7 (10.00%) Serverless
5 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.71%) Vertex AI
6 3 (4.29%) Lucidchart
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.86%) PaaS
7 2 (2.86%) SaaS
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.43%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) Big Data
2 4 (5.71%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.71%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.29%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.43%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.43%) Power BI
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) MLflow
3 1 (1.43%) RStudio
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.29%) Health Technology
6 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Czech Language
7 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Law
7 2 (2.86%) Legal
7 2 (2.86%) Police
8 1 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Data Scientist
2 12 (17.14%) Consultant
3 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Lead
4 8 (11.43%) Senior
5 5 (7.14%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.71%) Contract Management Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) Data Science Leader
6 4 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Lead Product Owner
6 4 (5.71%) Product Lead
6 4 (5.71%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (4.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Computer Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Computer Vision Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) HR Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Management Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) TensorFlow
2 13 (18.57%) PyTorch
3 6 (8.57%) scikit-learn
4 5 (7.14%) XGBoost
5 3 (4.29%) EDI
5 3 (4.29%) OpenCV
6 2 (2.86%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.86%) Hugging Face
6 2 (2.86%) Matplotlib
6 2 (2.86%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.86%) Pandas
6 2 (2.86%) RESTful
7 1 (1.43%) Anaconda
7 1 (1.43%) BentoML
7 1 (1.43%) LangChain
7 1 (1.43%) NLTK
7 1 (1.43%) Node.js
7 1 (1.43%) Prisma
7 1 (1.43%) React
7 1 (1.43%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.29%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.29%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.86%) Social Media
5 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) FMCG
5 1 (1.43%) IVR
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (81.43%) Machine Learning
2 51 (72.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 33 (47.14%) Data Science
4 22 (31.43%) Deep Learning
5 16 (22.86%) LLM
6 13 (18.57%) Computer Science
6 13 (18.57%) Data Analysis
7 12 (17.14%) Analytics
8 9 (12.86%) Generative AI
9 8 (11.43%) Computer Vision
10 7 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (8.57%) Agile
11 6 (8.57%) CI/CD
11 6 (8.57%) Data Engineering
11 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
11 6 (8.57%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (8.57%) Kalman Filter
11 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.57%) Visualisation
12 5 (7.14%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 39 (55.71%) Python
2 11 (15.71%) SQL
3 8 (11.43%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) C++
4 3 (4.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.86%) R
5 2 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) C
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Degree
2 8 (11.43%) SC Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.71%) PhD
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) Ariba
1 5 (7.14%) Google
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.14%) OpenAI
2 4 (5.71%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) Genesys
3 3 (4.29%) Phenom
4 1 (1.43%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.43%) DataRobot