Natural Language Processing Jobs in the City of London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 138 225
Rank change year-on-year +17 +87 +43
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 18 39 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.94% 1.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.27% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 5
10th Percentile £79,500 £39,100 £63,250
25th Percentile £120,000 £46,313 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 £71,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +111.27% -16.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £155,000 £121,875 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £120,500
Central London median annual salary £140,000 £71,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +97.18% -11.25% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,838 3,064 4,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 2,397 3,613
10th Percentile £42,100 £41,315 £42,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the City of London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the City of London.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the City of London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the City of London

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) Azure AI
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (16.67%) Tableau
2 2 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Law
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
4 1 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
1 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 6 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Data Scientist
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Data Scientist
4 3 (16.67%) Principal Data Scientist
5 2 (11.11%) Head of Data Science
5 2 (11.11%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Research Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Pandas
1 4 (22.22%) TensorFlow
2 3 (16.67%) PySpark
2 3 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (16.67%) Credit Risk
4 2 (11.11%) Robotics
5 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Machine Learning
2 16 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
3 14 (77.78%) Data Science
4 11 (61.11%) Generative AI
5 10 (55.56%) Computer Science
5 10 (55.56%) MLOps
6 9 (50.00%) LLM
7 7 (38.89%) Analytics
7 7 (38.89%) Conversational AI
7 7 (38.89%) Conversational UI
8 6 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (33.33%) Data Privacy
8 6 (33.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
8 6 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (33.33%) Roadmaps
8 6 (33.33%) TOGAF
8 6 (33.33%) User Experience
9 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Degree
2 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 6 (33.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (16.67%) PhD
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
2 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Databricks
2 6 (33.33%) Google
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) Workday