Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in Wales

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 44 45 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.42% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £545 £134 -
25th Percentile £575 £152 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £194 -
Median % change year-on-year +234.62% - -
75th Percentile £725 £227 -
90th Percentile £755 £239 -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £656
% change year-on-year -8.33% -8.57% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 392 362 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 82.01% 79.91% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 211 311
10th Percentile £183 £145 £173
25th Percentile £266 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 47 26
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.48 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.89 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.66 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -9.00% +37.17%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.64 £50.00
90th Percentile £29.64 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
% change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in Wales

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Wales over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in Wales

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales +3 1 £750 +286.10% 2
Dyfed - 1 £550 -
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Statsmodels
1 1 (50.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft