Natural Language Processing Jobs

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 642 769 485
Rank change year-on-year +127 -284 +118
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 272 227 1,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.22% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 139 144 316
10th Percentile £46,150 £48,750 £49,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £87,813
90th Percentile £120,500 £113,500 £109,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.63% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Natural Language Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
England +86 202 £77,500 +10.71% 125
London +125 130 £87,500 +14.75% 74
UK excluding London +23 126 £70,576 +17.63% 50
Work from Home +87 105 £70,576 +8.47% 73
Scotland -8 61 £48,779 -11.38% 1
South East +27 24 £77,500 +19.23% 23
South West -23 23 £65,000 +10.60% 8
North of England +36 10 £62,783 +14.15% 7
Yorkshire +84 6 £70,576 -
Midlands -6 5 £75,000 +16.28% 2
East Midlands -16 3 £40,000 +6.67% 1
West Midlands +10 2 £75,000 +3.81% 1
East of England +6 2 £75,500 -11.18% 8
North West +1 2 £61,391 +11.62% 6
North East - 2 £62,783 - 1
Wales +8 1 £67,500 +22.63%

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (6.62%) SAS
2 14 (5.15%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.47%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.10%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.94%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.21%) Simulink
3 6 (2.21%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 64 (23.53%) AWS
2 42 (15.44%) GCP
3 41 (15.07%) Azure
4 16 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 13 (4.78%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.31%) Azure Machine Learning
7 8 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.84%) ChatGPT
8 5 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.84%) SaaS
9 3 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.10%) Serverless
9 3 (1.10%) Slack
9 3 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.74%) Dialogflow
10 2 (0.74%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Firewall
1 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.10%) SSL
2 1 (0.37%) AMQP
2 1 (0.37%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.37%) OFDM
2 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.37%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.44%) Tableau
2 26 (9.56%) Big Data
3 13 (4.78%) MySQL
4 12 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.41%) Power BI
5 9 (3.31%) Data Mining
6 8 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.94%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.57%) Neo4j
8 6 (2.21%) Text Mining
9 4 (1.47%) DTS
10 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.74%) Metadata
11 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 60 (22.06%) Git
2 5 (1.84%) JIRA
3 4 (1.47%) MLflow
4 3 (1.10%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.10%) ERwin
4 3 (1.10%) GitLab
5 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.74%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.37%) git-flow
6 1 (0.37%) Mocha
6 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 90 (33.09%) Finance
3 56 (20.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (20.22%) Law
5 42 (15.44%) Marketing
6 25 (9.19%) Banking
7 15 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.04%) Games
10 10 (3.68%) Korean Language
11 9 (3.31%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.57%) Legal
13 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.74%) Electronics
14 2 (0.74%) Retail
14 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.37%) Front Office
15 1 (0.37%) Hindi Language
15 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (40.81%) Data Scientist
2 80 (29.41%) Senior
2 80 (29.41%) Senior Data Scientist
3 24 (8.82%) Lead
3 24 (8.82%) Software Engineering Director
4 23 (8.46%) Lead Data Scientist
4 23 (8.46%) Software Engineer
5 17 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 17 (6.25%) Developer
6 14 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 13 (4.78%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.04%) Analyst
8 11 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 9 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 8 (2.94%) Data Analyst
10 8 (2.94%) Principal Data Scientist
10 8 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (2.57%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (35.29%) TensorFlow
2 71 (26.10%) Pandas
3 65 (23.90%) PyTorch
4 61 (22.43%) scikit-learn
5 36 (13.24%) PySpark
6 23 (8.46%) Keras
7 22 (8.09%) SpaCy
8 21 (7.72%) XGBoost
9 19 (6.99%) NumPy
10 17 (6.25%) REST
11 14 (5.15%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.15%) React
12 13 (4.78%) Flask
12 13 (4.78%) JPA
12 13 (4.78%) Kafka
12 13 (4.78%) Spring
13 10 (3.68%) EDI
14 9 (3.31%) MXNet
15 8 (2.94%) Apache Beam
16 6 (2.21%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 90 (33.09%) Algorithms
2 32 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 24 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (2.57%) Robotics
6 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.74%) Cybercrime
8 2 (0.74%) Femtech
8 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.74%) Semantic Web
8 2 (0.74%) Social Network
8 2 (0.74%) W3C
9 1 (0.37%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.37%) CUDA
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.37%) IoT
9 1 (0.37%) iPad
9 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.41%) Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Windows
2 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (92.65%) Machine Learning
2 229 (84.19%) Artificial Intelligence
3 172 (63.24%) Data Science
4 110 (40.44%) Mathematics
5 100 (36.76%) Agile
5 100 (36.76%) Visualisation
6 89 (32.72%) Deep Learning
7 88 (32.35%) Generative AI
8 87 (31.99%) Decision-Making
8 87 (31.99%) Statistics
9 83 (30.51%) Computer Science
9 83 (30.51%) LLM
10 76 (27.94%) Computer Vision
10 76 (27.94%) Software Engineering
11 71 (26.10%) Neural Network
12 69 (25.37%) MLOps
13 59 (21.69%) Analytics
14 49 (18.01%) Predictive Modelling
15 47 (17.28%) Actionable Insight
15 47 (17.28%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 187 (68.75%) Python
2 119 (43.75%) SQL
3 33 (12.13%) Java
4 20 (7.35%) R
5 14 (5.15%) C
6 8 (2.94%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.21%) C++
8 5 (1.84%) C#
9 4 (1.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.37%) Scala
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 134 (49.26%) Degree
2 69 (25.37%) Master's Degree
3 45 (16.54%) PhD
4 35 (12.87%) DBS Check
5 15 (5.51%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.21%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.31%) GDPR
2 6 (2.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 15 (5.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (3.31%) Terraform
2 5 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.74%) Core Impact
3 2 (0.74%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 58 (21.32%) Databricks
2 21 (7.72%) Google
3 14 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.15%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.78%) Oracle
5 11 (4.04%) Dataiku
6 10 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.94%) Facebook
8 4 (1.47%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.47%) Dell
9 3 (1.10%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.10%) Embarcadero
9 3 (1.10%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) IBM
10 2 (0.74%) Sage
11 1 (0.37%) Samsung