Natural Language Processing Jobs

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 636 759
Rank change year-on-year +104 +123 -287
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 161 265 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 81 136 145
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,306 £49,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +9.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £96,539 £92,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £70,576 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +17.63% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 17 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 1 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
England +130 151 £68,750 -11.29% 367
London +71 81 £85,000 -4.23% 265
UK excluding London +155 72 £62,000 -12.15% 152
Work from Home +157 58 £58,000 -17.82% 181
South East +133 48 £59,000 -23.87% 66
North of England +83 8 £64,000 +1.94% 26
Yorkshire +75 5 £64,000 -9.32% 5
East of England +60 5 £58,000 -23.18% 33
Wales +48 3 £69,000 +2.22%
Channel Islands - 3 £80,000 -
South West +86 2 £50,000 -23.08% 16
Midlands +79 2 £74,000 -1.33% 6
North West +32 2 £85,253 +38.87% 18
Scotland +72 1 - - 12
West Midlands +49 1 £90,000 +20.00% 4
North East +49 1 £67,037 +6.78% 3
East Midlands +48 1 £58,000 +45.00% 1

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 6 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.86%) Apache
3 2 (1.24%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.21%) Chatbot
2 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 69 (42.86%) Azure
2 31 (19.25%) AWS
3 26 (16.15%) GCP
4 25 (15.53%) Power Platform
5 16 (9.94%) SaaS
6 15 (9.32%) Vertex AI
7 13 (8.07%) Azure AI
8 12 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (6.83%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (5.59%) Dialogflow
10 9 (5.59%) IBM Watson
11 7 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (4.35%) GitHub
12 5 (3.11%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (2.48%) Serverless
14 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Broadband
1 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.53%) Power BI
2 24 (14.91%) Data Mining
3 23 (14.29%) Tableau
4 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.59%) QlikView
6 7 (4.35%) Big Data
7 4 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.86%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.86%) MySQL
8 3 (1.86%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.24%) Triplestore
9 2 (1.24%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.62%) ArangoDB
10 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 15 (9.32%) Git
2 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.86%) MLflow
3 2 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.24%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 76 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 48 (29.81%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (26.71%) Law
4 38 (23.60%) Retail
5 23 (14.29%) Finance
6 13 (8.07%) Telecoms
7 12 (7.45%) Legal
7 12 (7.45%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.11%) Banking
10 3 (1.86%) Advertising
10 3 (1.86%) Marketing
11 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.24%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.24%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.24%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.62%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (29.81%) Senior
2 41 (25.47%) Lead
3 40 (24.84%) Data Scientist
4 25 (15.53%) Senior Data Scientist
5 18 (11.18%) Architect
6 15 (9.32%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 11 (6.83%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.21%) Data Manager
8 10 (6.21%) Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Analytics Manager
9 9 (5.59%) Audit Manager
9 9 (5.59%) Data Analytics Manager
9 9 (5.59%) Principal Data Scientist
9 9 (5.59%) Risk Manager
9 9 (5.59%) Technology Risk Manager
9 9 (5.59%) Trainer
10 7 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Lead Data Scientist
11 6 (3.73%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (21.12%) TensorFlow
2 30 (18.63%) scikit-learn
3 26 (16.15%) PyTorch
4 19 (11.80%) Hugging Face
5 15 (9.32%) Pandas
6 10 (6.21%) SpaCy
7 9 (5.59%) PySpark
8 7 (4.35%) REST
9 6 (3.73%) NLTK
9 6 (3.73%) Plotly
10 5 (3.11%) Keras
10 5 (3.11%) NumPy
10 5 (3.11%) RESTful
11 4 (2.48%) Kafka
11 4 (2.48%) Node.js
11 4 (2.48%) React
12 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.86%) Flask
12 3 (1.86%) OpenCV
12 3 (1.86%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 70 (43.48%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.83%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (6.83%) Robotics
3 9 (5.59%) Blockchain
3 9 (5.59%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.48%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.24%) IoT
7 2 (1.24%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.62%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.62%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (92.55%) Machine Learning
2 138 (85.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 102 (63.35%) Data Science
4 88 (54.66%) Analytics
5 64 (39.75%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (39.13%) MLOps
7 58 (36.02%) Visualisation
8 52 (32.30%) Agile
8 52 (32.30%) LLM
9 50 (31.06%) Roadmaps
10 49 (30.43%) Generative AI
11 40 (24.84%) Data Engineering
12 39 (24.22%) Mentoring
13 37 (22.98%) Computer Science
14 35 (21.74%) DevOps
14 35 (21.74%) Performance Monitoring
15 34 (21.12%) Product Management
15 34 (21.12%) Statistical Modelling
16 31 (19.25%) Strategic Thinking
17 29 (18.01%) Commercialisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (67.70%) Python
2 48 (29.81%) SQL
3 18 (11.18%) R
4 13 (8.07%) Java
5 4 (2.48%) C++
5 4 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.24%) C#
6 2 (1.24%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.62%) Gremlin
7 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.62%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 62 (38.51%) Degree
2 31 (19.25%) Master's Degree
3 21 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (7.45%) PhD
5 11 (6.83%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.83%) DBS Check
5 11 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.83%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) GDPR
2 12 (7.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 8 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 21 (13.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.48%) Terraform
3 3 (1.86%) Argo
3 3 (1.86%) Grafana
3 3 (1.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.24%) Ansible
4 2 (1.24%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.62%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 55 (34.16%) Microsoft
2 39 (24.22%) Google
3 35 (21.74%) Databricks
4 29 (18.01%) OpenAI
5 11 (6.83%) SAP
5 11 (6.83%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.83%) Workday
6 9 (5.59%) IBM
7 2 (1.24%) F5
8 1 (0.62%) Genesys
8 1 (0.62%) Medallia
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle