Natural Language Understanding Contracts in London

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 389 480
Rank change year-on-year +39 +91 -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 1 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.040% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.045% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £450 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £575 £718 £588
90th Percentile - £765 -
England median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +31.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Natural Language Understanding
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Understanding in London

Natural Language Understanding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Understanding in London

Natural Language Understanding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Understanding in London

Natural Language Understanding
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Emotional Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) HOOD
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Genesys