Natural Language Processing Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 102 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.45% 0.066% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.079% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
England median daily rate £550 £619 £725
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.66% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,402 1,265 1,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.51% 83.89% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 761 1,190
10th Percentile £260 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £625
90th Percentile £638 £663 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 45 35
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £44.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +45.65%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Yorkshire

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 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 Yorkshire -15 6 £489 - 2
West Yorkshire - 1 £525 - 4
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure AKS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Private Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Hugging Face
1 6 (85.71%) OpenCV
1 6 (85.71%) PyTorch
1 6 (85.71%) Regular Expression
1 6 (85.71%) SpaCy
1 6 (85.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (85.71%) Deep Learning
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Generative AI
2 6 (85.71%) Image Processing
2 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 6 (85.71%) OCR
2 6 (85.71%) Open Source
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) KYC
4 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
5 3 (42.86%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (42.86%) Data Science
6 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 2 (28.57%) Intelligent Automation
6 2 (28.57%) LLM
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft