Natural Language Understanding Contract Job Trends in Reading

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Natural Language Understanding skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 766 732 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 88.25% 93.73% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 403 632
10th Percentile £311 £301 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -4.65%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £615
90th Percentile £673 £663 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 36
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.35 £20.17
25th Percentile £70.00 £29.00 £55.41
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.76 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% +0.07% -5.05%
75th Percentile £97.50 £64.73 £67.81
90th Percentile £107.00 £72.20 £87.53
Berkshire median hourly rate £76.80 £61.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year +24.89% +0.81% -5.68%

Natural Language Understanding
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Natural Language Understanding job vacancy trend in Reading

Natural Language Understanding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD