Natural Language Understanding Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Natural Language Understanding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Natural Language Understanding over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Understanding 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £708 £725
% change year-on-year -22.26% -2.41% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Natural Language Understanding 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 9,340 12,391 21,248
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.61% 87.37% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,292 8,383 14,971
10th Percentile £325 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.42% +0.09%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 502 515
10th Percentile £12.62 £15.52 £18.05
25th Percentile £18.52 £25.50 £25.95
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.95 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

Natural Language Understanding
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Natural Language Understanding
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 Understanding.

Natural Language Understanding daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Understanding
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM