Natural Language Processing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 339 496 570
Rank change year-on-year +157 +74 -57
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 58 96 103
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.31% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 40 57 57
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,306 £45,569
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £70,576 £65,133
Median % change year-on-year -17.82% +8.36% -15.96%
75th Percentile £68,250 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £112,923 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% +9.29% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Natural Language Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Natural Language Processing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Natural Language Processing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 11 (18.97%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) Dialogflow
4 3 (5.17%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Neptune
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Serverless
6 1 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (34.48%) Tableau
2 12 (20.69%) Power BI
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) MySQL
5 1 (1.72%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.07%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Legal
6 3 (5.17%) Law
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.72%) Advertising
8 1 (1.72%) Finance
8 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (48.28%) Data Scientist
2 18 (31.03%) Senior Data Scientist
3 14 (24.14%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Principal Data Scientist
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) Lead Data Scientist
5 6 (10.34%) Trainer
6 5 (8.62%) Developer
7 4 (6.90%) Product Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Head of AI
8 3 (5.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Junior
9 2 (3.45%) Junior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Technical Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) TensorFlow
2 15 (25.86%) Hugging Face
2 15 (25.86%) scikit-learn
3 11 (18.97%) Pandas
4 9 (15.52%) PySpark
4 9 (15.52%) PyTorch
5 6 (10.34%) NLTK
5 6 (10.34%) REST
5 6 (10.34%) SpaCy
6 3 (5.17%) Flask
6 3 (5.17%) Keras
6 3 (5.17%) React
6 3 (5.17%) RESTful
7 2 (3.45%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.45%) Matplotlib
7 2 (3.45%) Node.js
7 2 (3.45%) NumPy
7 2 (3.45%) OpenCV
7 2 (3.45%) SciPy
8 1 (1.72%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Algorithms
2 9 (15.52%) Credit Risk
3 7 (12.07%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (3.45%) Robotics
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.72%) Semantic Web
6 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (91.38%) Machine Learning
2 42 (72.41%) Artificial Intelligence
3 33 (56.90%) Data Science
4 24 (41.38%) Analytics
5 20 (34.48%) Visualisation
6 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (25.86%) Computer Science
7 15 (25.86%) LLM
8 13 (22.41%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
8 13 (22.41%) Storytelling
9 12 (20.69%) Neural Network
9 12 (20.69%) Predictive Modelling
9 12 (20.69%) Statistics
10 11 (18.97%) Data Analytics
10 11 (18.97%) Mathematics
10 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
11 10 (17.24%) Customer Experience
11 10 (17.24%) Generative AI
12 9 (15.52%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (81.03%) Python
2 29 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.72%) Gremlin
5 1 (1.72%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) Degree
2 21 (36.21%) Master's Degree
3 11 (18.97%) DBS Check
4 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 5 (8.62%) PhD
6 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Databricks
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) F5
4 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) Medallia