Natural Language Understanding Contracts in England

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Natural Language Understanding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Natural Language Understanding over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 542 619
Rank change year-on-year +35 +77 +179
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 9 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.003% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £525 £704 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £708 £725
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% -2.41% +3.87%
75th Percentile £575 £711 £763
90th Percentile £605 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £708 £725
% change year-on-year -22.26% -2.41% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Natural Language Understanding 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 25,047 29,475 41,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.70% 85.79% 89.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,057 19,309 28,846
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £633 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,362 1,833 1,443
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.69 £18.79
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%
75th Percentile £51.65 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 27 July 2025.

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 27 July 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 +16 4 £550 -22.26% 10
East of England - 3 £525 - 1
North of England - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £550 -
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 8 (88.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (55.56%) Serverless
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (11.11%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (11.11%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Conversational UI
2 8 (88.89%) LLM
3 6 (66.67%) Conversational AI
4 5 (55.56%) Generative AI
5 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
6 3 (33.33%) Agile
6 3 (33.33%) Emotional Intelligence
6 3 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (33.33%) Project Management
6 3 (33.33%) Sentiment Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (33.33%) User Experience
6 3 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (33.33%) UX Design
6 3 (33.33%) UX Research
7 2 (22.22%) HOOD
7 2 (22.22%) Reinforcement Learning
7 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Genesys
2 1 (11.11%) NVIDIA