Natural Language Processing Contracts with Work from Home 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 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 298 410 535
Rank change year-on-year +112 +125 -59
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 43 47 88
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 81
10th Percentile £350 £413 £500
25th Percentile £400 £460 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £588 £1,100 £650
90th Percentile £775 - £738
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +17.70%

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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Natural Language Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Natural Language Processing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 4 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (41.86%) AWS
2 14 (32.56%) Azure
3 9 (20.93%) Serverless
4 8 (18.60%) GCP
5 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (11.63%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (9.30%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (9.30%) OpenShift
8 4 (9.30%) Textract
9 3 (6.98%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (6.98%) Azure AI
9 3 (6.98%) PaaS
10 2 (4.65%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.65%) Rekognition
11 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (2.33%) dbt
11 1 (2.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Big Data
2 6 (13.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.98%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.65%) Power BI
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Pinecone
6 1 (2.33%) Tableau
General
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Czech Language
4 3 (6.98%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Consultant
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Data Scientist
4 5 (11.63%) Automation Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
6 3 (6.98%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) HR Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (6.98%) Technology Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Lead
7 2 (4.65%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Machine Learning Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) AWS CDK
2 6 (13.95%) PyTorch
3 5 (11.63%) TensorFlow
3 5 (11.63%) XGBoost
4 4 (9.30%) scikit-learn
4 4 (9.30%) SpaCy
5 3 (6.98%) EDI
5 3 (6.98%) Matplotlib
5 3 (6.98%) Pandas
6 2 (4.65%) Django
6 2 (4.65%) NumPy
6 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.33%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.33%) Kafka
7 1 (2.33%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) IVR
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Machine Learning
2 33 (76.74%) Artificial Intelligence
3 16 (37.21%) Data Science
4 11 (25.58%) Agile
4 11 (25.58%) Deep Learning
5 10 (23.26%) Data Analysis
5 10 (23.26%) Scrum
6 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
6 8 (18.60%) User Experience
7 7 (16.28%) Analytics
7 7 (16.28%) ETL
7 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
8 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.95%) Kanban
8 6 (13.95%) LLM
9 5 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (11.63%) Generative AI
9 5 (11.63%) LSTM
9 5 (11.63%) Random Forest
9 5 (11.63%) Transfer Learning
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.98%) Scala
6 2 (4.65%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Grafana
2 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) OpenAI
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Databricks
3 3 (6.98%) Phenom
4 2 (4.65%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba