Natural Language Processing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 381 488
Rank change year-on-year +1 +107 -62
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 21 49 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.22% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.24% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 12
10th Percentile £385 £425 £413
25th Percentile £400 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +0.05% -4.81%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £610
90th Percentile £494 £750 £612
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. 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
Scotland +44 13 £469 +1.41%
South East +8 6 £400 -30.43% 5
West Midlands +18 1 £375 -34.78%
Midlands +17 1 £375 -34.78%
South West +1 1 £450 -18.18% 6
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Serverless
3 12 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 12 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 12 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (38.10%) OpenShift
5 6 (28.57%) Textract
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (19.05%) Azure
7 3 (14.29%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (14.29%) Azure AI
8 2 (9.52%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (9.52%) GCP
8 2 (9.52%) Rekognition
9 1 (4.76%) dbt
9 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (47.62%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Automation Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Audit Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) AWS CDK
2 7 (33.33%) SpaCy
3 6 (28.57%) PyTorch
4 3 (14.29%) TensorFlow
5 2 (9.52%) PostGIS
5 2 (9.52%) REST
6 1 (4.76%) Node.js
6 1 (4.76%) Prisma
6 1 (4.76%) React
6 1 (4.76%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Machine Learning
2 14 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 12 (57.14%) Agile
4 10 (47.62%) Kanban
4 10 (47.62%) Scrum
5 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (28.57%) Code Coverage
6 6 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 6 (28.57%) Community of Practice
6 6 (28.57%) ETL
6 6 (28.57%) OCR
6 6 (28.57%) Product Management
6 6 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
6 6 (28.57%) Service Design
6 6 (28.57%) User Experience
7 5 (23.81%) Coaching
7 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
8 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
8 4 (19.05%) MLOps
8 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 11 (52.38%) TypeScript
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Grafana
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.76%) Google