Natural Language Processing Job Trends in Birmingham

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 128 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 4 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £48,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - -
75th Percentile £70,063 - -
90th Percentile £72,425 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £61,250 - £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Natural Language Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,381 1,683 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.37% 93.29% 88.05%
Number of salaries quoted 979 784 1,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,875 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Natural Language Processing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in Birmingham

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI