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 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 587 699 541
Rank change year-on-year +112 -158 -72
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 149 399 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.34% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 122 237 246
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,067 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,577 £57,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £106,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.88% +21.43%

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 49,175 117,045 121,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.07% 95.76% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 35,535 71,782 82,169
10th Percentile £32,250 £34,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,519 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.04% +4.17%

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 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 14 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 10 December 2023. 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 +123 130 £75,000 - 131
London +132 77 £78,000 +0.65% 88
Work from Home +155 61 £70,000 -9.68% 62
UK excluding London +181 51 £62,000 +3.33% 67
South East +157 18 £82,500 +10.00% 31
South West +67 10 £59,451 +1.55% 3
Scotland +45 9 £59,451 -38.23% 10
East of England +88 5 £74,000 +2.07% 7
North of England +146 4 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Midlands +113 4 £47,500 -20.83% 10
North West +113 4 £62,500 +25.00% 5
East Midlands +49 3 £40,000 -38.46% 2
West Midlands +111 1 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Wales - 1 £67,500 -

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 9 (6.04%) nginx
2 5 (3.36%) SAS
3 3 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.34%) Apache
4 2 (1.34%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.34%) Simulink
2 2 (1.34%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 67 (44.97%) AWS
2 52 (34.90%) GCP
3 42 (28.19%) Azure
4 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.05%) Serverless
6 10 (6.71%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (6.71%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.04%) npm
7 9 (6.04%) Yarn
8 6 (4.03%) dbt
8 6 (4.03%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 3 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.34%) Azure LUIS
10 2 (1.34%) IBM Watson
10 2 (1.34%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) AMQP
2 1 (0.67%) FTP
2 1 (0.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.41%) Power BI
2 14 (9.40%) Tableau
3 11 (7.38%) MongoDB
4 9 (6.04%) Big Data
5 5 (3.36%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.68%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.68%) Text Mining
7 3 (2.01%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.34%) MySQL
8 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) Git
2 9 (6.04%) Cypress.io
2 9 (6.04%) Mocha
2 9 (6.04%) webpack
3 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.67%) git-flow
3 1 (0.67%) MLflow
3 1 (0.67%) Selenium
3 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 34 (22.82%) Finance
1 34 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.72%) Banking
4 12 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (7.38%) Law
6 10 (6.71%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.37%) Legal
8 6 (4.03%) Health Technology
8 6 (4.03%) Marketing
9 3 (2.01%) Games
9 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Publishing
9 3 (2.01%) Retail
10 2 (1.34%) Hindi Language
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Front Office
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (36.24%) Data Scientist
2 35 (23.49%) Senior
3 24 (16.11%) Lead
4 16 (10.74%) Analyst
5 15 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 15 (10.07%) Senior Data Scientist
6 14 (9.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (8.72%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (8.05%) Audit Analyst
8 12 (8.05%) Data Analyst
8 12 (8.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Data Science Analyst
10 7 (4.70%) Lead Data Scientist
11 6 (4.03%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Developer
13 4 (2.68%) Architect
13 4 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 4 (2.68%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.68%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (25.50%) PyTorch
2 30 (20.13%) TensorFlow
3 23 (15.44%) scikit-learn
4 16 (10.74%) React
5 15 (10.07%) Pandas
6 14 (9.40%) Node.js
7 13 (8.72%) HTML
8 12 (8.05%) CSS
8 12 (8.05%) Django
9 11 (7.38%) AngularJS
9 11 (7.38%) NumPy
10 10 (6.71%) Keras
11 9 (6.04%) GraphQL
11 9 (6.04%) gRPC
11 9 (6.04%) Jest
11 9 (6.04%) MERN Stack
11 9 (6.04%) Mongoose
11 9 (6.04%) NestJS
11 9 (6.04%) OpenAPI
11 9 (6.04%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.44%) Algorithms
2 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.05%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.68%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) IoT
6 3 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.01%) Robotics
7 2 (1.34%) Cybercrime
7 2 (1.34%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.67%) Clustering
8 1 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Equities
8 1 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 1 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (81.88%) Machine Learning
2 96 (64.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 96 (64.43%) Data Science
3 55 (36.91%) Analytics
4 53 (35.57%) Agile
5 48 (32.21%) Deep Learning
6 35 (23.49%) LLM
6 35 (23.49%) Software Engineering
7 31 (20.81%) Data Analytics
8 28 (18.79%) Computer Vision
9 27 (18.12%) Computer Science
10 26 (17.45%) Mathematics
11 24 (16.11%) Roadmaps
11 24 (16.11%) Statistics
12 22 (14.77%) Data Engineering
13 21 (14.09%) Neural Network
14 20 (13.42%) Generative AI
15 18 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (12.08%) DevOps
16 16 (10.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (65.77%) Python
2 52 (34.90%) SQL
3 21 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 19 (12.75%) R
5 18 (12.08%) Java
6 10 (6.71%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.04%) C++
8 8 (5.37%) C#
9 4 (2.68%) C
9 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.01%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (36.91%) Degree
2 27 (18.12%) PhD
3 25 (16.78%) Master's Degree
4 13 (8.72%) Security Cleared
5 11 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.34%) QA
2 2 (1.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (10.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (18.79%) Google
2 19 (12.75%) Dataiku
3 12 (8.05%) Databricks
4 8 (5.37%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.36%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.01%) Cognizant
6 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.34%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.34%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.34%) IBM
7 2 (1.34%) Sage
8 1 (0.67%) Adobe
8 1 (0.67%) Facebook
8 1 (0.67%) Oracle
8 1 (0.67%) SAP