Natural Language Processing Job Trends in the West Midlands

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 191 183
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 +88
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 4 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.076% 0.17% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.18% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £48,000 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,646 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,879 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -16.16% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,063 £68,113 £87,500
90th Percentile £72,425 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,354 3,847 3,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 90.90% 88.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,253 1,712 2,578
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Natural Language Processing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Natural Language Processing job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Natural Language Processing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the West Midlands

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Birmingham +20 4 £61,250 -2.59% 4
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Head of Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI