Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.048% 0.057% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.063% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - -
South East median daily rate £433 - £623
% change year-on-year - - +21.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £28.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,793 1,588 2,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.91% 90.18% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 916 1,413
10th Percentile £268 £255 £213
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £673 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £517
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.35% +2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 102
10th Percentile £15.62 £21.98 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £38.00 £25.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £50.39
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +12.61% +89.27%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £64.20
90th Percentile £94.75 £67.30 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +22.22%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Natural Language Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Berkshire -3 1 £440 - 18
Natural Language Processing
South East

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check