Natural Language Processing Contracts in London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 429 515
Rank change year-on-year +109 +86 -116
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 62 54 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 35 70
10th Percentile £348 £405 £500
25th Percentile £438 £484 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £919 £700
90th Percentile £775 £1,082 £825
England median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - -7.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,694 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 270 421
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 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
Central London +42 3 - - 5
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 6 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.84%) Jupyter
4 2 (3.23%) Apache
4 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Chatbot
2 3 (4.84%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) Azure
2 11 (17.74%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) GCP
4 5 (8.06%) Serverless
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.45%) Vertex AI
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.84%) Lucidchart
7 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.23%) PaaS
7 2 (3.23%) SaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.61%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.61%) Dagster
8 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Big Data
2 4 (6.45%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.84%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Git
2 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.61%) MLflow
3 1 (1.61%) RStudio
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Health Technology
5 3 (4.84%) Legal
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Czech Language
6 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Law
6 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.23%) Police
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Data Scientist
2 11 (17.74%) Consultant
3 9 (14.52%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) Data Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Product Owner
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (6.45%) Contract Management Consultant
7 4 (6.45%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (6.45%) Product Lead
8 3 (4.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Computer Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Computer Vision Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) HR Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Management Consultant
8 3 (4.84%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) TensorFlow
2 10 (16.13%) PyTorch
3 6 (9.68%) scikit-learn
3 6 (9.68%) XGBoost
4 3 (4.84%) EDI
4 3 (4.84%) Matplotlib
4 3 (4.84%) OpenCV
4 3 (4.84%) Pandas
5 2 (3.23%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.61%) Anaconda
6 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.61%) BentoML
6 1 (1.61%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.61%) Kafka
6 1 (1.61%) LangChain
6 1 (1.61%) NumPy
6 1 (1.61%) RESTful
6 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (29.03%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.84%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.84%) Solar Panel
4 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.23%) Social Media
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.61%) FMCG
5 1 (1.61%) IVR
5 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (80.65%) Machine Learning
2 49 (79.03%) Artificial Intelligence
3 31 (50.00%) Data Science
4 20 (32.26%) Deep Learning
5 16 (25.81%) LLM
6 12 (19.35%) Analytics
6 12 (19.35%) Computer Science
6 12 (19.35%) Data Analysis
7 9 (14.52%) Generative AI
8 8 (12.90%) Computer Vision
9 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
9 7 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (9.68%) Agile
10 6 (9.68%) Conversational UI
10 6 (9.68%) Data Engineering
10 6 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (9.68%) Kalman Filter
10 6 (9.68%) Visualisation
11 5 (8.06%) Customer Experience
11 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) SQL
3 6 (9.68%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) R
4 2 (3.23%) Scala
4 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) Degree
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (9.68%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.84%) PhD
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Kubeflow
1 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) Ariba
1 5 (8.06%) Google
1 5 (8.06%) OpenAI
2 4 (6.45%) Databricks
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.84%) Genesys
3 3 (4.84%) Phenom
4 1 (1.61%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.61%) DataRobot