Natural Language Processing Contracts in Scotland

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 133 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 10 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 0
10th Percentile £391 £435 -
25th Percentile £414 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £503 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% - -
75th Percentile £485 £538 -
90th Percentile £494 £546 -
UK median daily rate £575 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -16.36% +10.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Natural Language Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 2,152 3,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.05% 91.61% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 1,366 2,155
10th Percentile £212 £237 £300
25th Percentile £356 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £537 £572 £570
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 51 65
10th Percentile £13.33 £12.13 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.22 £14.22
Median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%
75th Percentile £24.18 £57.72 £39.75
90th Percentile £40.90 £78.00 £57.65
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in Scotland

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in Scotland

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Edinburgh +12 5 £494 +3.13%
Glasgow +8 3 £391 -24.30%
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 -
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (20.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (70.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (70.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (70.00%) Serverless
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (40.00%) Textract
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Automation Developer
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) AWS CDK
1 7 (70.00%) SpaCy
2 6 (60.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) LangChain
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Kanban
4 5 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) MLOps
5 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Coaching
6 3 (30.00%) Code Coverage
6 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (30.00%) ETL
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (30.00%) OCR
6 3 (30.00%) Product Management
6 3 (30.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (30.00%) Service Design
6 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (30.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Grafana
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes