Natural Language Processing Contracts in the North West

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 11 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.56% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £419 - £508
25th Percentile £440 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.00%
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £665 - £673
England median daily rate £520 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.61% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the North West

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the North West

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire - 6 £600 -
Manchester - 4 £446 - 16
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure AI
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) Google Gemini
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Neo4j
2 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Legal
2 4 (36.36%) Manufacturing
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Data Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PyTorch
1 6 (54.55%) TensorFlow
2 2 (18.18%) LangChain
2 2 (18.18%) Regular Expression
3 1 (9.09%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (90.91%) Machine Learning
3 8 (72.73%) LLM
4 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
5 6 (54.55%) Agile
5 6 (54.55%) Decision-Making
5 6 (54.55%) Generative AI
5 6 (54.55%) Mathematics
5 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (54.55%) SDLC
6 5 (45.45%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
7 4 (36.36%) Computer Vision
7 4 (36.36%) Data Science
7 4 (36.36%) Linear Algebra
7 4 (36.36%) Multi-Agent System
7 4 (36.36%) Pattern Recognition
7 4 (36.36%) RDF
7 4 (36.36%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) R
2 3 (27.27%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Ariba
2 1 (9.09%) SAP