Natural Language Processing Jobs in England

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 627 712
Rank change year-on-year +84 +85 -252
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 149 217 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 76 125 132
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% +10.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £110,625 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £141,250 £122,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.58% +9.29% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in England.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +44 81 £90,000 +2.86% 323
South East +119 44 £59,000 -23.87% 88
North of England +49 8 £64,000 +1.94% 22
Yorkshire +67 5 £64,000 -9.32% 4
East of England +46 5 £58,000 -23.18% 39
South West +89 4 £50,000 -23.08% 17
Midlands +62 2 £74,000 +28.70% 8
North West +6 2 £85,253 +38.87% 16
West Midlands +57 1 £90,000 +20.00% 4
North East +44 1 £67,037 +6.78% 2
East Midlands +30 1 £58,000 +45.00% 4
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 63 (42.28%) Azure
2 30 (20.13%) AWS
3 24 (16.11%) GCP
4 23 (15.44%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.74%) SaaS
6 15 (10.07%) Vertex AI
7 13 (8.72%) Azure AI
8 12 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (6.04%) Dialogflow
10 9 (6.04%) IBM Watson
11 4 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.68%) Serverless
11 4 (2.68%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.01%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.01%) GitHub
12 3 (2.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Broadband
1 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.11%) Data Mining
2 23 (15.44%) Power BI
3 20 (13.42%) Tableau
4 10 (6.71%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.04%) QlikView
6 7 (4.70%) Big Data
6 7 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.68%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.01%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.01%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.34%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.34%) Triplestore
10 2 (1.34%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.67%) ArangoDB
11 1 (0.67%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Git
2 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.01%) MLflow
3 1 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 69 (46.31%) Social Skills
2 43 (28.86%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (28.86%) Law
3 38 (25.50%) Retail
4 21 (14.09%) Finance
5 14 (9.40%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.71%) Legal
7 8 (5.37%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.36%) Banking
10 3 (2.01%) Advertising
11 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.34%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.34%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.67%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (28.86%) Senior
2 39 (26.17%) Lead
3 34 (22.82%) Data Scientist
4 21 (14.09%) Senior Data Scientist
5 16 (10.74%) Architect
6 14 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 11 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.71%) Data Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Analytics Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Audit Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Data Analytics Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Principal Data Scientist
9 9 (6.04%) Risk Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Technology Risk Manager
9 9 (6.04%) Trainer
10 7 (4.70%) Lead Data Scientist
10 7 (4.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Product Manager
11 6 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.13%) TensorFlow
2 26 (17.45%) scikit-learn
3 22 (14.77%) PyTorch
4 18 (12.08%) Hugging Face
5 15 (10.07%) Pandas
6 10 (6.71%) SpaCy
7 9 (6.04%) PySpark
8 7 (4.70%) REST
9 6 (4.03%) NLTK
10 5 (3.36%) RESTful
11 4 (2.68%) Keras
11 4 (2.68%) Node.js
11 4 (2.68%) NumPy
11 4 (2.68%) React
12 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
12 3 (2.01%) JSON
12 3 (2.01%) Kafka
12 3 (2.01%) Spring Boot
12 3 (2.01%) Vue
13 2 (1.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (43.62%) Algorithms
2 11 (7.38%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.38%) Robotics
3 9 (6.04%) Blockchain
3 9 (6.04%) Credit Risk
4 5 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.68%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.68%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.34%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.34%) IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.67%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (91.28%) Machine Learning
2 128 (85.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 97 (65.10%) Data Science
4 80 (53.69%) Analytics
5 63 (42.28%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (39.60%) MLOps
7 53 (35.57%) Visualisation
8 50 (33.56%) Roadmaps
9 49 (32.89%) LLM
10 48 (32.21%) Generative AI
11 47 (31.54%) Agile
12 40 (26.85%) Computer Science
13 37 (24.83%) Mentoring
14 35 (23.49%) Performance Monitoring
15 34 (22.82%) Data Engineering
15 34 (22.82%) Product Management
16 33 (22.15%) DevOps
17 29 (19.46%) Commercialisation
17 29 (19.46%) Statistical Modelling
17 29 (19.46%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 98 (65.77%) Python
2 46 (30.87%) SQL
3 18 (12.08%) R
4 14 (9.40%) Java
5 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.68%) C++
6 4 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.34%) C#
7 2 (1.34%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.67%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.67%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.67%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 62 (41.61%) Degree
2 31 (20.81%) Master's Degree
3 25 (16.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.72%) PhD
5 11 (7.38%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.38%) DBS Check
6 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared
6 8 (5.37%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) GDPR
2 12 (8.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (6.71%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 17 (11.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.68%) Terraform
3 2 (1.34%) Ansible
3 2 (1.34%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.67%) Argo
4 1 (0.67%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (37.58%) Microsoft
2 37 (24.83%) Google
3 35 (23.49%) Databricks
4 29 (19.46%) OpenAI
5 11 (7.38%) SAP
5 11 (7.38%) ServiceNow
5 11 (7.38%) Workday
6 9 (6.04%) IBM
7 2 (1.34%) Genesys
8 1 (0.67%) F5
8 1 (0.67%) Medallia
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle