Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £606 £650
% change year-on-year -9.28% -6.73% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 156 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 88.71% 79.19% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 61 82
10th Percentile £263 £148 £201
25th Percentile £325 £167 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £525
90th Percentile £625 £575 £599
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.22% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 24 10
10th Percentile £12.56 £21.57 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.78 £23.76 £12.49
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.22 £15.49
90th Percentile - £42.70 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.03% -22.46% +25.29%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
County Antrim - 1 £700 - 3
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Records Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared