Natural Language Processing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 632 655
Rank change year-on-year +117 +23 -98
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 64 130 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24 70 41
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,306 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,288 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +17.15% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,133 £96,539 £92,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +91 39 £60,000 -22.58% 14
North of England +37 9 £64,000 +1.94% 29
South West +89 5 £50,000 -23.08% 12
Yorkshire +55 5 £64,000 -9.32% 6
East of England +50 3 £64,000 -29.86% 32
North West +3 3 £85,253 +38.87% 18
Wales - 3 £69,000 -
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 - 6
Scotland +63 1 - - 5
Midlands +63 1 £90,000 +20.00% 6
West Midlands +56 1 £90,000 +20.00% 5
North East +49 1 £67,037 +6.78% 5
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) GCP
2 15 (23.44%) Vertex AI
3 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (14.06%) AWS
4 9 (14.06%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.94%) IBM Watson
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Serverless
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (37.50%) Data Mining
2 9 (14.06%) Power BI
3 7 (10.94%) QlikView
3 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.13%) Pinecone
5 2 (3.13%) Tableau
5 2 (3.13%) Weaviate
6 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.56%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 35 (54.69%) Analytical Skills
1 35 (54.69%) Social Skills
2 34 (53.13%) Retail
3 27 (42.19%) Law
4 15 (23.44%) Finance
5 7 (10.94%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.25%) Legal
7 3 (4.69%) Marketing
7 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.13%) Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (50.00%) Senior
2 30 (46.88%) Lead
3 9 (14.06%) Data Scientist
4 7 (10.94%) Analytics Manager
4 7 (10.94%) Audit Manager
4 7 (10.94%) Data Analytics Manager
4 7 (10.94%) Data Manager
4 7 (10.94%) Risk Manager
4 7 (10.94%) Technology Risk Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Data Science Leader
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Junior
8 2 (3.13%) Junior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) PyTorch
1 14 (21.88%) TensorFlow
2 11 (17.19%) scikit-learn
3 6 (9.38%) Pandas
4 4 (6.25%) Hugging Face
4 4 (6.25%) Keras
4 4 (6.25%) NumPy
5 3 (4.69%) Node.js
5 3 (4.69%) React
6 2 (3.13%) Kafka
6 2 (3.13%) OpenCV
6 2 (3.13%) RESTful
7 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.56%) Flask
7 1 (1.56%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.56%) Regular Expression
7 1 (1.56%) SciPy
7 1 (1.56%) Seaborn
7 1 (1.56%) SpaCy
7 1 (1.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (48.44%) Algorithms
2 7 (10.94%) Blockchain
2 7 (10.94%) Robotics
3 3 (4.69%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Blog
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (93.75%) Machine Learning
2 57 (89.06%) Artificial Intelligence
3 45 (70.31%) Analytics
4 44 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (67.19%) Agile
6 40 (62.50%) Data Science
7 34 (53.13%) MLOps
8 31 (48.44%) Roadmaps
9 30 (46.88%) DevOps
9 30 (46.88%) Strategic Thinking
10 28 (43.75%) Visualisation
11 27 (42.19%) Commercialisation
11 27 (42.19%) Customer-Centricity
11 27 (42.19%) Data Engineering
11 27 (42.19%) Product Management
11 27 (42.19%) Statistical Modelling
11 27 (42.19%) Time Series Analysis
12 24 (37.50%) DataOps
12 24 (37.50%) LLM
12 24 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) Python
2 18 (28.13%) SQL
3 12 (18.75%) R
4 6 (9.38%) Java
5 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.25%) C++
6 4 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.56%) Julia
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 5 (7.81%) PhD
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) GDPR
2 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (4.69%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 34 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 21 (32.81%) Databricks
3 17 (26.56%) Google
4 16 (25.00%) OpenAI
5 7 (10.94%) IBM
6 1 (1.56%) Genesys