Natural Language Processing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 286 354 541
Rank change year-on-year +68 +187 -10
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 36 45 47
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 39
10th Percentile £391 £507 £421
25th Percentile £400 £585 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £713
90th Percentile £775 £1,100 £756
UK median daily rate £575 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -16.36% +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.50 - £58.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,687 16,696 35,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.04% 88.78% 91.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,714 11,676 25,347
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 402 535
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.49 £16.07
25th Percentile £23.92 £26.06 £26.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -2.78% +125.00%
75th Percentile £66.53 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Natural Language Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Natural Language Processing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Natural Language Processing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Natural Language Processing.

Natural Language Processing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (11.11%) Jupyter
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) R Markdown
3 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 17 (47.22%) Azure
3 11 (30.56%) GCP
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (16.67%) Serverless
5 4 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (8.33%) Azure AI
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.56%) dbt
7 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.56%) PaaS
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.56%) Textract
7 2 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.78%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (11.11%) Tableau
3 3 (8.33%) Big Data
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) MySQL
5 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.78%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Mocha
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Retail
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Czech Language
6 1 (2.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Data Scientist
3 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Automation Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (5.56%) Machine Learning Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) PyTorch
2 9 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 6 (16.67%) scikit-learn
4 5 (13.89%) XGBoost
5 4 (11.11%) AWS CDK
5 4 (11.11%) SpaCy
6 3 (8.33%) Matplotlib
6 3 (8.33%) Pandas
7 2 (5.56%) Django
7 2 (5.56%) Keras
7 2 (5.56%) LangChain
7 2 (5.56%) Node.js
7 2 (5.56%) NumPy
7 2 (5.56%) React
8 1 (2.78%) Express.js
8 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.78%) Hugging Face
8 1 (2.78%) Jest
8 1 (2.78%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Tandem
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (94.44%) Machine Learning
2 28 (77.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (47.22%) Data Science
4 11 (30.56%) Analytics
4 11 (30.56%) Deep Learning
5 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
5 10 (27.78%) LLM
6 9 (25.00%) Agile
7 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (19.44%) Conversational UI
8 7 (19.44%) Generative AI
9 6 (16.67%) Random Forest
9 6 (16.67%) Scrum
10 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
10 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (13.89%) Logistic Regression
10 5 (13.89%) LSTM
10 5 (13.89%) Transfer Learning
10 5 (13.89%) User Experience
11 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) SQL
4 5 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.56%) R
5 2 (5.56%) Scala
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
6 1 (2.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Google
2 4 (11.11%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.78%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.78%) Genesys