Natural Language Processing Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - -
75th Percentile £41,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 405 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 87.70% 78.64% 92.03%
Number of salaries quoted 125 225 291
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Northern Ireland

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Natural Language Processing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim - 1 £40,000 - 5
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python