Natural Language Processing Contracts in South Yorkshire

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 59 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.39% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £448 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 - £575
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £625

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 485 430 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.36% 87.22% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 234 284
10th Percentile £285 £314 £300
25th Percentile £384 £410 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.20% +10.14%
75th Percentile £561 £580 £675
90th Percentile £638 £621 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 28
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.05 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% +20.70% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.87 £19.43 -
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.23 £13.16
% change year-on-year +67.35% +0.53% -29.63%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in South Yorkshire

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Sheffield +4 2 £479 - 8
Natural Language Processing
Yorkshire

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 2 (100.00%) OpenCV
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Image Processing
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft