Natural Language Processing Contracts

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 599 665
Rank change year-on-year +81 +66 -79
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 80 120 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 80 151
10th Percentile £350 £425 £438
25th Percentile £450 £455 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £630 £678 £700
90th Percentile £724 £1,055 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £508 £483
% change year-on-year -8.96% +5.28% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Natural Language Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +105 70 £560 -2.61% 107
London +108 61 £573 -0.43% 58
Work from Home +121 36 £508 +4.21% 64
UK excluding London +21 14 £463 -8.96% 48
Scotland +24 10 £463 -2.63% 2
South East +16 3 £274 -52.39% 24
South West +20 1 £450 -30.77% 7

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.50%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) Serverless
3 15 (18.75%) Azure
4 13 (16.25%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 9 (11.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.25%) GCP
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (7.50%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (5.00%) Rekognition
9 4 (5.00%) Textract
9 4 (5.00%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.75%) Lucidchart
11 2 (2.50%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.50%) PaaS
11 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.50%) SaaS
12 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (8.75%) Big Data
3 5 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Power BI
7 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) MLflow
3 1 (1.25%) RStudio
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.25%) Finance
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.75%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Czech Language
7 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Police
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Data Scientist
2 12 (15.00%) Consultant
3 10 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Developer
4 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Lead
5 8 (10.00%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) Product Owner
7 4 (5.00%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Contract Management Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Data Science Leader
7 4 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead Product Owner
7 4 (5.00%) Product Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (3.75%) Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Computer Vision Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) GCP Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) HR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 13 (16.25%) PyTorch
3 11 (13.75%) AWS CDK
4 6 (7.50%) scikit-learn
5 5 (6.25%) XGBoost
6 3 (3.75%) EDI
6 3 (3.75%) OpenCV
7 2 (2.50%) Hugging Face
7 2 (2.50%) Matplotlib
7 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.50%) Pandas
7 2 (2.50%) PostGIS
7 2 (2.50%) REST
7 2 (2.50%) RESTful
8 1 (1.25%) BentoML
8 1 (1.25%) Kafka
8 1 (1.25%) LangChain
8 1 (1.25%) NLTK
8 1 (1.25%) Prisma
8 1 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (3.75%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.50%) Social Media
5 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) FMCG
5 1 (1.25%) IVR
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (83.75%) Machine Learning
2 59 (73.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 34 (42.50%) Data Science
4 22 (27.50%) Deep Learning
5 16 (20.00%) LLM
6 15 (18.75%) Agile
7 13 (16.25%) Analytics
7 13 (16.25%) Computer Science
7 13 (16.25%) Data Analysis
8 12 (15.00%) Scrum
9 9 (11.25%) Generative AI
9 9 (11.25%) Kanban
9 9 (11.25%) User Experience
10 8 (10.00%) CI/CD
10 8 (10.00%) Computer Vision
10 8 (10.00%) ETL
10 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.75%) Product Management
11 7 (8.75%) Service Design
11 7 (8.75%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (61.25%) Python
2 14 (17.50%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) Java
4 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.75%) C++
6 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.50%) R
6 2 (2.50%) Scala
7 1 (1.25%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) C
7 1 (1.25%) C#
7 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Degree
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) Master's Degree
4 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.00%) PhD
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Grafana
2 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (7.50%) Google
2 5 (6.25%) Ariba
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
4 3 (3.75%) Genesys
4 3 (3.75%) Phenom
5 1 (1.25%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.25%) DataRobot