Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NLTK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NLTK 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 698 904 954
Rank change year-on-year +206 +50 +270
Permanent jobs citing NLTK 4 3 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.003% 0.015%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.042% 0.014% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile £47,375 £52,625 £57,750
25th Percentile £49,063 £62,188 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £78,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.51% +21.15% -13.33%
75th Percentile £52,188 £94,688 £82,188
90th Percentile £56,125 £103,875 £114,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 -
% change year-on-year +10.53% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

NLTK falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NLTK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NLTK in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NLTK.

Salary trend for NLTK in the UK

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Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NLTK within the UK 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
England +172 4 £50,000 -36.51% 11
Work from Home - 4 £50,000 - 8
London +106 3 £50,000 -54.55% 11
UK excluding London +183 1 £52,500 +10.53%
North of England - 1 £52,500 -
North West - 1 £52,500 -

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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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Dialogflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Trainer
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Trainer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (100.00%) SpaCy
2 3 (75.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Keras
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) Seaborn
3 1 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Blog
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Conversational AI
1 4 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision Tree
3 1 (25.00%) Dimensionality Reduction
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Understanding
3 1 (25.00%) OCR
3 1 (25.00%) Pattern Matching
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Julia
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft