Natural Language Understanding Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Natural Language Understanding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.078% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,129 953 1,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.20% 90.76% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 600 996
10th Percentile £304 £294 £306
25th Percentile £375 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -8.59% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £676 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 31 68
10th Percentile £17.13 £15.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £24.73
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +31.45% -41.64%
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.88
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £30.95 £30.00
% change year-on-year +37.92% +3.17% -20.00%

Natural Language Understanding
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Natural Language Understanding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Natural Language Understanding job vacancy trend in Manchester

Natural Language Understanding
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Natural Language Understanding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Natural Language Understanding

Natural Language Understanding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ArangoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Stardog
1 1 (100.00%) TigerGraph
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Graph Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SHACL
1 1 (100.00%) SPARQL