Natural Language Processing Contracts in the South East

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 175 210 263
Rank change year-on-year +35 +53 -6
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 4 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.096% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile - £505 £419
25th Percentile - £585 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £623 £513
Median % change year-on-year -35.74% +21.46% -19.29%
75th Percentile - £655 £547
90th Percentile - £723 £569
England median daily rate £625 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £28.50 - -
75th Percentile £29.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.50 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,528 4,905 6,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.52% 89.80% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,149 3,239 4,780
10th Percentile £260 £225 £271
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £623
90th Percentile £688 £700 £695
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 252 269
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £23.81 £17.76
Median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.06 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.53 £72.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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
East Sussex - 3 £400 -
Thames Valley +11 1 - - 10
Berkshire +8 1 - - 1
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 (75.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 3 (75.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Google Gemini
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Chat Support
2 3 (75.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (25.00%) Cheminformatics
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) OpenAI