Natural Language Processing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 309 431
Rank change year-on-year +42 +122 +95
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 37 36 46
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.27% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 35
10th Percentile £449 £350 £413
25th Percentile £456 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £508 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +4.21% -18.75%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £681
90th Percentile £778 £775 £1,100
UK median daily rate £516 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -0.05% -6.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.25 - -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% - -
75th Percentile £26.13 - -
90th Percentile £26.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -66.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Natural Language Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Natural Language Processing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Natural Language Processing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (13.51%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Mattermost
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.70%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Computing
2 8 (21.62%) Serverless
3 7 (18.92%) AWS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure
5 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.81%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.11%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (8.11%) Cloud9 IDE
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 3 (8.11%) Textract
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.11%) Tableau
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) MLflow
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Banking
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Investment Banking
3 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Data Scientist
2 9 (24.32%) Python Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) JavaScript Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Angular Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.41%) HTML CSS Developer
7 2 (5.41%) HTML Developer
7 2 (5.41%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Machine Learning Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Product Owner
8 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Scientist
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) PyTorch
1 7 (18.92%) scikit-learn
1 7 (18.92%) TensorFlow
2 5 (13.51%) Regular Expression
3 4 (10.81%) NumPy
3 4 (10.81%) Pandas
3 4 (10.81%) pydantic
3 4 (10.81%) React
4 3 (8.11%) Hugging Face
4 3 (8.11%) JSON
4 3 (8.11%) LangChain
4 3 (8.11%) OpenCV
4 3 (8.11%) SciPy
4 3 (8.11%) XGBoost
5 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.41%) CSS
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Matplotlib
5 2 (5.41%) SpaCy
5 2 (5.41%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (21.62%) Management Information System
2 6 (16.22%) Algorithms
2 6 (16.22%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Linux
1 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Artificial Intelligence
1 28 (75.68%) Data Science
2 27 (72.97%) Machine Learning
3 12 (32.43%) LLM
4 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.03%) Data Security
5 10 (27.03%) Decision-Making
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 9 (24.32%) Deep Learning
6 9 (24.32%) Generative AI
6 9 (24.32%) Statistical Analysis
6 9 (24.32%) Visualisation
7 8 (21.62%) Community of Practice
7 8 (21.62%) Critical Thinking
7 8 (21.62%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 8 (21.62%) Experimental Design
7 8 (21.62%) Risk Management
7 8 (21.62%) Task Automation
8 7 (18.92%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (75.68%) Python
2 11 (29.73%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
4 9 (24.32%) Java
5 8 (21.62%) SQL
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Google
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks