Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 43 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.28% 0.53% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £134 -
25th Percentile £725 £152 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £194 -
Median % change year-on-year +286.10% - -
75th Percentile £775 £227 -
90th Percentile - £239 -
Wales median daily rate £650 £194 -
% change year-on-year +234.62% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 295 311 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 83.10% 82.71% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 172 264
10th Percentile £202 £161 £169
25th Percentile £284 £213 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -6.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £588
90th Percentile £610 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 42 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.40
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £18.18 £23.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% -9.62% +30.59%
75th Percentile £20.75 £36.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £67.88 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.19 £23.66 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% -9.00% +37.17%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in South Wales

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Natural Language Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cardiff - 1 £750 - 2
Natural Language Processing
Wales

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Foundry
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft