Natural Language Processing Contracts in England

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 552 672
Rank change year-on-year +83 +120 -125
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 74 86 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 60 81
10th Percentile £349 £425 £500
25th Percentile £411 £511 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +6.25% -2.04%
75th Percentile £675 £813 £700
90th Percentile £775 £1,100 £775
UK median daily rate £528 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.17% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +7.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in England.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in England

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +94 62 £575 -14.81% 50
South East +4 6 £400 -30.43% 12
South West +8 1 £450 -18.18% 10
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.76%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.05%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.70%) Apache
4 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Chatbot
2 3 (4.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.08%) AWS
2 21 (28.38%) Azure
3 12 (16.22%) GCP
4 7 (9.46%) Serverless
5 6 (8.11%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.41%) Vertex AI
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (4.05%) Lucidchart
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.70%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.70%) PaaS
8 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.35%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) Big Data
2 5 (6.76%) Data Mining
3 4 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.05%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.70%) Power BI
5 2 (2.70%) Tableau
6 1 (1.35%) Flink
6 1 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Git
1 2 (2.70%) RStudio
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) MLflow
General
1 20 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.51%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.41%) Legal
5 4 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.05%) Health Technology
6 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Czech Language
7 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Retail
8 1 (1.35%) Electronics
8 1 (1.35%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (17.57%) Consultant
2 12 (16.22%) Data Scientist
3 10 (13.51%) Lead
4 9 (12.16%) Senior
5 8 (10.81%) Data Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 5 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Product Owner
9 4 (5.41%) Contract Management Consultant
9 4 (5.41%) Data Science Leader
9 4 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Lead Product Owner
9 4 (5.41%) Product Lead
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Computer Vision Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) GCP Data Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) HR Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.32%) TensorFlow
2 16 (21.62%) PyTorch
3 8 (10.81%) scikit-learn
4 7 (9.46%) XGBoost
5 3 (4.05%) EDI
5 3 (4.05%) Matplotlib
5 3 (4.05%) OpenCV
5 3 (4.05%) Pandas
6 2 (2.70%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.70%) Google JAX
6 2 (2.70%) Kafka
6 2 (2.70%) NumPy
6 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.70%) RESTful
7 1 (1.35%) BentoML
7 1 (1.35%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.35%) LangChain
7 1 (1.35%) Node.js
7 1 (1.35%) Prisma
7 1 (1.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (27.03%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.05%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (4.05%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.70%) Social Media
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.35%) Blog
5 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) FMCG
5 1 (1.35%) IVR
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (82.43%) Machine Learning
2 58 (78.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 35 (47.30%) Data Science
4 26 (35.14%) Deep Learning
5 19 (25.68%) Computer Science
6 18 (24.32%) LLM
7 14 (18.92%) Analytics
8 12 (16.22%) Computer Vision
8 12 (16.22%) Data Analysis
9 11 (14.86%) Generative AI
10 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.16%) Conversational UI
12 8 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (9.46%) CI/CD
13 7 (9.46%) Mentoring
13 7 (9.46%) Use Case
14 6 (8.11%) Change Management
14 6 (8.11%) Data Modelling
14 6 (8.11%) Logistic Regression
14 6 (8.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.70%) Python
2 10 (13.51%) SQL
3 8 (10.81%) Java
4 2 (2.70%) C++
4 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.70%) Julia
4 2 (2.70%) Scala
5 1 (1.35%) Bash
5 1 (1.35%) C#
5 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.35%) R
5 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Degree
2 10 (13.51%) Master's Degree
3 8 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.46%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.76%) PhD
6 3 (4.05%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) OpenAI
2 5 (6.76%) Ariba
2 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.41%) Databricks
3 4 (5.41%) Google
4 3 (4.05%) Genesys
4 3 (4.05%) Phenom
5 1 (1.35%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.35%) DataRobot