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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 335 422
Rank change year-on-year +42 +87 +83
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 57 62 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.40% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 39
10th Percentile £423 £350 £410
25th Percentile £459 £450 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -14.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £1,040
90th Percentile £800 £775 £1,100
England median daily rate £525 £560 £638
% change year-on-year -6.25% -12.16% +6.25%

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +18 12 £523 - 4
South London - 2 - -
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 (10.53%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Drupal
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (5.26%) Sketch
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Shopify
1 1 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 12 (21.05%) Amazon SageMaker
4 9 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (15.79%) Serverless
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon S3
5 8 (14.04%) AWS CodeCommit
5 8 (14.04%) Cloud9 IDE
5 8 (14.04%) Textract
6 7 (12.28%) GCP
7 5 (8.77%) Figma
8 4 (7.02%) Azure AI
8 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (5.26%) ChatGPT
9 3 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (5.26%) IBM Watson
9 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (5.26%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle Database
3 5 (8.77%) Data Lake
4 4 (7.02%) Big Data
4 4 (7.02%) Power BI
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) Tableau
6 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) OLAP
6 1 (1.75%) OLTP
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) MLflow
2 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) ERwin
4 1 (1.75%) Git
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
General
1 13 (22.81%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Retail
5 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Legal
6 2 (3.51%) Military
6 2 (3.51%) Publishing
6 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Data Scientist
2 8 (14.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Designer
6 4 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Gen AI Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Python Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior
7 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Data Science Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Lead
8 2 (3.51%) Product Lead
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.58%) PyTorch
2 17 (29.82%) TensorFlow
3 14 (24.56%) Pandas
4 13 (22.81%) scikit-learn
5 11 (19.30%) NumPy
6 9 (15.79%) pydantic
7 8 (14.04%) LangChain
7 8 (14.04%) OpenCV
7 8 (14.04%) SciPy
8 6 (10.53%) REST
9 5 (8.77%) Hugging Face
10 3 (5.26%) Keras
11 2 (3.51%) FastAPI
11 2 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (3.51%) Regular Expression
11 2 (3.51%) XGBoost
12 1 (1.75%) BentoML
12 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (1.75%) pytest
12 1 (1.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.02%) AI Agents
3 4 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Life Science
6 1 (1.75%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (85.96%) Artificial Intelligence
2 45 (78.95%) Machine Learning
3 31 (54.39%) Data Science
4 24 (42.11%) LLM
5 20 (35.09%) Deep Learning
6 18 (31.58%) Computer Vision
6 18 (31.58%) Generative AI
7 15 (26.32%) MLOps
8 13 (22.81%) Visualisation
9 12 (21.05%) Agile
9 12 (21.05%) Conversational UI
9 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
11 10 (17.54%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (17.54%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (15.79%) DevOps
13 8 (14.04%) Data Munging
13 8 (14.04%) Statistical Inference
14 7 (12.28%) Conversational AI
14 7 (12.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (73.68%) Python
2 18 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) Clojure
3 4 (7.02%) Elixir
3 4 (7.02%) Rust
3 4 (7.02%) Scala
4 3 (5.26%) R
4 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.51%) PHP
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
2 7 (12.28%) Master's Degree
2 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) PhD
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Kubeflow
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) Databricks
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 9 (15.79%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Google
3 5 (8.77%) Genesys
4 4 (7.02%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.26%) IBM
6 1 (1.75%) Adobe
6 1 (1.75%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.75%) DataRobot
6 1 (1.75%) Informatica
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.75%) Sparx