Natural Language Processing Jobs in Scotland

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 220 210
Rank change year-on-year +73 -10 +28
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 1 61 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.035% 0.91% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.98% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46,306 £53,595
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £48,779 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year - -11.38% -27.81%
75th Percentile - £72,433 £56,492
90th Percentile - £96,539 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.33% +7.50% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,644 6,252 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.83% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 2,420 2,252
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.06% +9.97%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,853
90th Percentile £83,148 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Scotland

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in Scotland

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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
Edinburgh +7 1 - - 10
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Multivariate Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stochastic Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree