Natural Language Processing Contracts in the South East

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 198 202 259
Rank change year-on-year +4 +57 -54
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 6 13 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.23% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.26% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £203 £425 £439
25th Percentile - £453 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +2.22% +4.17%
75th Percentile - £838 £653
90th Percentile £453 £1,100 £696
England median daily rate £555 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -12.94% +6.25% -2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,681 5,025 6,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.11% 89.06% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 3,458 4,680
10th Percentile £260 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 217 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.14 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.16 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the South East

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the South East

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the South East

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
East Sussex +7 3 £400 -30.43% 5
Surrey +15 1 £73 -83.89% 2
Thames Valley +13 1 - - 5
Hampshire -1 1 £475 -
Berkshire -8 1 - - 4
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (33.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) Prisma
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Chat Support
3 3 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (33.33%) Deep Learning
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (16.67%) API Development
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) High Availability
5 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Time Series Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) OpenAI