Natural Language Processing Contracts in Manchester

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 91 109
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.31% 0.076% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.087% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £445 £510 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £520 £548
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -5.02% -9.88%
75th Percentile £545 £530 £594
90th Percentile £563 - £628
North West median daily rate £550 £489 £613
% change year-on-year +12.47% -20.16% +0.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 859 1,143 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.92% 86.59% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 741 1,194
10th Percentile £301 £325 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £453 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.06% -1.40% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 64 56
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.37 £14.33
25th Percentile £19.26 £20.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £34.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +76.62% +5.48%
75th Percentile £61.88 £62.50 £35.63
90th Percentile £78.00 £73.90 £59.38
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £29.00 £29.15
% change year-on-year -0.43% -0.51% +18.98%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Manchester

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in Manchester

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in Manchester

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Conversational UI
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Emotional Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Reinforcement Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Sentiment Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) UX Research
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Genesys