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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 622 709
Rank change year-on-year +90 +87 -251
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 132 215 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.25% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.29% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 60 123 131
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,261 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,188 £57,500 £59,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £119,625 £96,539 £95,000
90th Percentile £150,500 £122,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £75,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +12.58% +5.96% -5.00%

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 45,518 73,613 83,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.19% 84.97% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,437 53,908 49,787
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,067
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 23 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 23 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 +41 69 £95,000 +8.57% 361
South East +111 41 £60,000 -22.58% 339
North of England +40 8 £64,000 +1.94% 229
South West +83 5 £50,000 -23.08% 133
Yorkshire +61 5 £64,000 -9.32% 89
East of England +39 3 £64,000 -15.23% 174
North West 0 2 £85,253 +38.87% 107
Midlands +69 1 £90,000 +56.52% 187
West Midlands +68 1 £90,000 +20.00% 99
North East +46 1 £67,037 +6.78% 33
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 9 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.70%) Azure
2 24 (18.18%) AWS
3 23 (17.42%) GCP
4 17 (12.88%) Power Platform
5 15 (11.36%) Vertex AI
6 14 (10.61%) SaaS
7 13 (9.85%) Azure AI
8 12 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (6.06%) IBM Watson
11 5 (3.79%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (3.79%) Dialogflow
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (3.03%) Serverless
12 4 (3.03%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (2.27%) PaaS
14 2 (1.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Broadband
1 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.18%) Data Mining
2 17 (12.88%) Power BI
3 15 (11.36%) Tableau
4 9 (6.82%) SQL Server
5 8 (6.06%) QlikView
6 6 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.79%) Big Data
7 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.27%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.52%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.52%) Triplestore
10 2 (1.52%) Weaviate
11 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.76%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.76%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (11.36%) Git
2 3 (2.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.27%) MLflow
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
General
1 60 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 43 (32.58%) Law
3 41 (31.06%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (28.03%) Retail
5 20 (15.15%) Finance
6 13 (9.85%) Telecoms
7 10 (7.58%) Legal
8 4 (3.03%) Banking
8 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.52%) Games
10 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.52%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.76%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (32.58%) Senior
2 40 (30.30%) Lead
3 27 (20.45%) Data Scientist
4 20 (15.15%) Senior Data Scientist
5 13 (9.85%) Architect
5 13 (9.85%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 11 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.82%) Data Manager
7 9 (6.82%) Principal Data Scientist
8 8 (6.06%) Analytics Manager
8 8 (6.06%) Audit Manager
8 8 (6.06%) Data Analytics Manager
8 8 (6.06%) Risk Manager
8 8 (6.06%) Technology Risk Manager
9 7 (5.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Product Manager
10 6 (4.55%) Lead Data Scientist
11 5 (3.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Trainer
12 3 (2.27%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.21%) TensorFlow
2 22 (16.67%) scikit-learn
3 19 (14.39%) PyTorch
4 15 (11.36%) Pandas
5 11 (8.33%) Hugging Face
6 9 (6.82%) PySpark
7 5 (3.79%) SpaCy
8 4 (3.03%) Node.js
8 4 (3.03%) NumPy
8 4 (3.03%) React
9 3 (2.27%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.27%) JSON
9 3 (2.27%) Kafka
9 3 (2.27%) Keras
9 3 (2.27%) NLTK
9 3 (2.27%) REST
9 3 (2.27%) RESTful
10 2 (1.52%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.52%) Flask
10 2 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (41.67%) Algorithms
2 11 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.58%) Robotics
4 9 (6.82%) Credit Risk
5 8 (6.06%) Blockchain
6 5 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (3.03%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.27%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.76%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (90.91%) Machine Learning
2 117 (88.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 86 (65.15%) Data Science
4 71 (53.79%) Analytics
5 58 (43.94%) MLOps
6 55 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (37.88%) Roadmaps
8 48 (36.36%) Generative AI
8 48 (36.36%) Visualisation
9 47 (35.61%) LLM
10 44 (33.33%) Agile
11 36 (27.27%) Computer Science
12 35 (26.52%) Performance Monitoring
13 34 (25.76%) Product Management
14 33 (25.00%) Data Engineering
15 32 (24.24%) DevOps
16 29 (21.97%) Commercialisation
16 29 (21.97%) Mentoring
16 29 (21.97%) Strategic Thinking
17 27 (20.45%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 82 (62.12%) Python
2 39 (29.55%) SQL
3 16 (12.12%) R
4 9 (6.82%) Java
5 5 (3.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.03%) C++
6 4 (3.03%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.52%) C#
7 2 (1.52%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.76%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.76%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 52 (39.39%) Degree
2 25 (18.94%) Master's Degree
3 24 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (9.85%) PhD
5 11 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 11 (8.33%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.03%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.27%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) GDPR
2 12 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (7.58%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 13 (9.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.27%) Terraform
3 2 (1.52%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.76%) Argo
4 1 (0.76%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (39.39%) Microsoft
2 37 (28.03%) Databricks
3 34 (25.76%) Google
4 29 (21.97%) OpenAI
5 11 (8.33%) SAP
5 11 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 11 (8.33%) Workday
6 8 (6.06%) IBM
7 2 (1.52%) Genesys
8 1 (0.76%) Medallia
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle