Natural Language Processing Jobs in the South East

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 367 383
Rank change year-on-year +103 +16 +18
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 41 25 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 6
10th Percentile £47,500 - £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £76,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £94,375 £80,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £112,500 - £78,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,835 14,226 13,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.90% 84.26% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,295 9,862 7,900
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,240 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the South East

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the South East.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the South East

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the South East

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +78 33 £60,000 -25.00% 4
Berkshire +60 30 £100,000 +25.00% 2
Middlesex - 8 - -
Buckinghamshire +35 2 £60,000 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £50,000 - 2
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.88%) Apache
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) Vertex AI
3 12 (29.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (29.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (26.83%) Power Platform
5 9 (21.95%) GCP
6 8 (19.51%) IBM Watson
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (58.54%) Data Mining
2 11 (26.83%) Power BI
3 8 (19.51%) QlikView
3 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.88%) Pinecone
4 2 (4.88%) Tableau
4 2 (4.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) MLflow
General
1 36 (87.80%) Retail
2 29 (70.73%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (68.29%) Social Skills
4 27 (65.85%) Law
5 10 (24.39%) Finance
6 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (68.29%) Lead
2 25 (60.98%) Senior
3 8 (19.51%) Analytics Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Audit Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Data Analytics Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Data Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Risk Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Technology Risk Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Data Science Leader
5 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Data Scientist
6 1 (2.44%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) PyTorch
1 3 (7.32%) TensorFlow
2 2 (4.88%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) NumPy
2 2 (4.88%) Pandas
2 2 (4.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (58.54%) Algorithms
2 8 (19.51%) Blockchain
2 8 (19.51%) Robotics
3 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) Analytics
1 40 (97.56%) Artificial Intelligence
1 40 (97.56%) Machine Learning
2 35 (85.37%) Agile
3 31 (75.61%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (73.17%) Data Science
5 29 (70.73%) MLOps
6 27 (65.85%) Commercialisation
6 27 (65.85%) Customer-Centricity
6 27 (65.85%) DevOps
6 27 (65.85%) Product Management
6 27 (65.85%) Roadmaps
6 27 (65.85%) Strategic Thinking
6 27 (65.85%) Time Series Analysis
7 25 (60.98%) Visualisation
8 24 (58.54%) Data Engineering
8 24 (58.54%) Incident Management
8 24 (58.54%) Performance Monitoring
8 24 (58.54%) Statistical Analysis
8 24 (58.54%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) SQL
3 10 (24.39%) R
4 2 (4.88%) C++
4 2 (4.88%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
1 2 (4.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubeflow
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (85.37%) Microsoft
2 20 (48.78%) Databricks
3 15 (36.59%) Google
3 15 (36.59%) OpenAI
4 8 (19.51%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Medallia