Natural Language Understanding Contracts in England

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Natural Language Understanding skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Understanding over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 643 776
Rank change year-on-year +108 +133 -146
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.004% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.005% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £563 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +31.43% -22.91%
75th Percentile £718 £588 £456
90th Percentile £765 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +23.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Natural Language Understanding 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 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Natural Language Understanding
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Understanding in England

Natural Language Understanding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Understanding in England

Natural Language Understanding
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Understanding in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Understanding in England

Natural Language Understanding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Understanding in England

Natural Language Understanding
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 Understanding within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +93 7 £500 -13.04% 2
Natural Language Understanding
UK

Natural Language Understanding
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Vertex AI
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 6 (85.71%) Deep Learning
2 6 (85.71%) MLOps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Vision
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Feature Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Statistics
6 1 (14.29%) API Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
6 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google