Natural Language Processing Contracts

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 571 665
Rank change year-on-year +83 +94 -100
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 88 113 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.20% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 76 148
10th Percentile £350 £425 £446
25th Percentile £454 £452 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £630 £738 £700
90th Percentile £741 £1,078 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £508 £515
% change year-on-year -8.96% -1.36% -1.44%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +93 71 £555 -7.50% 115
London +108 62 £566 -11.87% 67
Work from Home +121 42 £508 - 67
UK excluding London +25 21 £463 -8.96% 55
Scotland +36 17 £469 +0.81% 3
South East +3 3 £274 -52.39% 14
South West +8 1 £450 -30.77% 10

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.41%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.27%) Apache
4 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.50%) AWS
2 23 (26.14%) Serverless
3 20 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (19.32%) Amazon S3
4 17 (19.32%) Azure
5 16 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (11.36%) GCP
6 10 (11.36%) OpenShift
7 8 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
7 8 (9.09%) Textract
8 4 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.55%) Rekognition
8 4 (4.55%) Vertex AI
9 3 (3.41%) Lucidchart
9 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.27%) PaaS
11 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.14%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (15.91%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (7.95%) Big Data
4 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.41%) Power BI
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.27%) Tableau
8 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
2 2 (2.27%) GitLab
2 2 (2.27%) RStudio
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) MLflow
General
1 17 (19.32%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.36%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.41%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.41%) Legal
6 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Czech Language
7 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Electronics
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (19.32%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Data Scientist
3 12 (13.64%) Consultant
4 11 (12.50%) Automation Developer
5 10 (11.36%) Data Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Senior
7 8 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Lead
9 5 (5.68%) Product Owner
10 4 (4.55%) Contract Management Consultant
10 4 (4.55%) Data Science Leader
10 4 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Lead Product Owner
10 4 (4.55%) Product Lead
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Computer Vision Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) GCP Data Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) HR Consultant
11 3 (3.41%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) AWS CDK
2 17 (19.32%) PyTorch
3 15 (17.05%) TensorFlow
4 8 (9.09%) scikit-learn
5 7 (7.95%) SpaCy
5 7 (7.95%) XGBoost
6 3 (3.41%) EDI
6 3 (3.41%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.41%) OpenCV
6 3 (3.41%) Pandas
7 2 (2.27%) NumPy
7 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.27%) PostGIS
7 2 (2.27%) REST
7 2 (2.27%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) Anaconda
8 1 (1.14%) BentoML
8 1 (1.14%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.14%) LangChain
8 1 (1.14%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.41%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.41%) Solar Panel
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.27%) Social Media
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) FMCG
6 1 (1.14%) IVR
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (85.23%) Machine Learning
2 64 (72.73%) Artificial Intelligence
3 36 (40.91%) Data Science
4 23 (26.14%) Deep Learning
5 22 (25.00%) Agile
6 17 (19.32%) Scrum
7 16 (18.18%) Data Analysis
7 16 (18.18%) LLM
8 15 (17.05%) Computer Science
9 14 (15.91%) Kanban
10 13 (14.77%) Analytics
10 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (13.64%) User Experience
12 11 (12.50%) ETL
12 11 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 10 (11.36%) Product Management
13 10 (11.36%) Service Design
14 9 (10.23%) Computer Vision
14 9 (10.23%) Generative AI
15 8 (9.09%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 56 (63.64%) Python
2 17 (19.32%) TypeScript
3 13 (14.77%) SQL
4 12 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (2.27%) C++
5 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.27%) Scala
6 1 (1.14%) Bash
6 1 (1.14%) C#
6 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.14%) R
6 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Degree
2 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.82%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.41%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (3.41%) PhD
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 15 (17.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (17.05%) Grafana
2 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (6.82%) Google
2 5 (5.68%) Ariba
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.55%) Databricks
4 3 (3.41%) Genesys
4 3 (3.41%) Phenom
5 1 (1.14%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.14%) DataRobot