Natural Language Processing Contracts in London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 305 330 439
Rank change year-on-year +25 +109 +70
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 48 61 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.34% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.39% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 35
10th Percentile £415 £345 £405
25th Percentile £455 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £813
90th Percentile £800 £753 £1,055
England median daily rate £520 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.61% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +10 9 £520 - 8
South London - 2 - - 1
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.42%) Jupyter
2 2 (4.17%) Drupal
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Shopify
1 1 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) AWS
2 12 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 10 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (20.83%) Serverless
4 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 9 (18.75%) AWS CodeCommit
4 9 (18.75%) Cloud9 IDE
4 9 (18.75%) Textract
5 8 (16.67%) Azure
6 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.33%) Vertex AI
7 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AI
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 4 (8.33%) Power BI
3 4 (8.33%) Tableau
4 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.08%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.08%) KDB
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) OLAP
5 1 (2.08%) OLTP
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (2.08%) ERwin
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Military
4 3 (6.25%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 6 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Gen AI Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) Product Lead
4 3 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 1 (2.08%) Product Owner
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) scikit-learn
2 13 (27.08%) Pandas
2 13 (27.08%) PyTorch
3 12 (25.00%) NumPy
3 12 (25.00%) TensorFlow
4 10 (20.83%) pydantic
5 9 (18.75%) OpenCV
5 9 (18.75%) SciPy
6 8 (16.67%) LangChain
7 4 (8.33%) REST
8 3 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (6.25%) XGBoost
9 2 (4.17%) FastAPI
9 2 (4.17%) Hugging Face
9 2 (4.17%) Matplotlib
9 2 (4.17%) Plotly
9 2 (4.17%) React
9 2 (4.17%) Regular Expression
10 1 (2.08%) OAuth
10 1 (2.08%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Algorithms
1 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 3 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Educational Technology
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.08%) Life Science
5 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) Machine Learning
2 37 (77.08%) Artificial Intelligence
3 29 (60.42%) Data Science
4 16 (33.33%) Deep Learning
4 16 (33.33%) LLM
5 15 (31.25%) Visualisation
6 14 (29.17%) Computer Vision
7 13 (27.08%) Data Visualisation
8 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
8 11 (22.92%) Generative AI
9 9 (18.75%) Agile
9 9 (18.75%) Data Munging
9 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (18.75%) Statistical Inference
10 8 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (16.67%) MLOps
11 6 (12.50%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.50%) DevOps
12 5 (10.42%) Conversational UI
12 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (77.08%) Python
2 18 (37.50%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) Clojure
3 4 (8.33%) Elixir
3 4 (8.33%) Rust
3 4 (8.33%) Scala
3 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) PHP
5 1 (2.08%) C++
5 1 (2.08%) Go
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.08%) R
5 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.08%) ISEB
4 1 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 3 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe
4 1 (2.08%) Informatica
4 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.08%) Sparx