Natural Language Processing Jobs

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 613 736 472
Rank change year-on-year +123 -264 +132
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 284 223 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.22% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.24% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 137 142 325
10th Percentile £46,306 £48,750 £49,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £96,539 £94,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £121,000 £114,500 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.63% - +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Natural Language Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +110 216 £77,500 +5.08% 134
London +141 143 £87,500 +9.38% 87
UK excluding London +19 126 £70,576 +17.63% 72
Work from Home +87 114 £67,788 +4.29% 80
Scotland -2 61 £48,779 -11.38% 3
South East +3 25 £77,500 +19.23% 33
South West -9 24 £65,000 +10.60% 11
North of England +41 10 £62,783 +14.15% 10
Yorkshire +76 6 £70,576 -
Midlands -14 4 £57,500 -20.42% 4
East Midlands -11 3 £40,000 +6.67% 1
East of England 0 2 £75,500 +0.67% 7
North West -14 2 £61,391 +11.62% 7
North East - 2 £62,783 - 3
West Midlands +8 1 £75,000 -6.25% 3

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 20 (7.04%) SAS
2 15 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.76%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.06%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.35%) Luigi
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.82%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.11%) Simulink
3 6 (2.11%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 63 (22.18%) AWS
2 43 (15.14%) Azure
2 43 (15.14%) GCP
3 17 (5.99%) Amazon SageMaker
4 13 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.52%) Azure Machine Learning
6 8 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (1.76%) ChatGPT
7 5 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.76%) SaaS
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.06%) Serverless
8 3 (1.06%) Slack
8 3 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.70%) Dialogflow
9 2 (0.70%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.35%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) Firewall
1 3 (1.06%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.06%) SSL
2 1 (0.35%) AMQP
2 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.35%) OFDM
2 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.35%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.01%) Tableau
2 27 (9.51%) Big Data
3 13 (4.58%) MySQL
4 12 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (4.23%) Power BI
5 9 (3.17%) Data Mining
5 9 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.82%) Hadoop
7 6 (2.11%) Text Mining
8 5 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (1.76%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.41%) DTS
9 4 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.06%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.70%) Metadata
11 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (1.76%) JIRA
3 4 (1.41%) MLflow
4 3 (1.06%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.06%) ERwin
4 3 (1.06%) GitLab
5 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.70%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.35%) git-flow
6 1 (0.35%) Mocha
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 91 (32.04%) Finance
3 56 (19.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (18.66%) Law
5 42 (14.79%) Marketing
6 25 (8.80%) Banking
7 19 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.52%) Games
9 10 (3.52%) Korean Language
10 9 (3.17%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.46%) Legal
12 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.35%) Front Office
14 1 (0.35%) Hindi Language
14 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (43.66%) Data Scientist
2 95 (33.45%) Senior Data Scientist
3 94 (33.10%) Senior
4 25 (8.80%) Lead
5 24 (8.45%) Lead Data Scientist
5 24 (8.45%) Software Engineering Director
6 23 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 17 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 17 (5.99%) Developer
8 14 (4.93%) Data Engineer
8 14 (4.93%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Python Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Analyst
10 11 (3.87%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (2.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 8 (2.82%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.82%) Principal Data Scientist
12 8 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.46%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (37.68%) TensorFlow
2 82 (28.87%) Pandas
3 71 (25.00%) scikit-learn
4 65 (22.89%) PyTorch
5 47 (16.55%) PySpark
6 23 (8.10%) Keras
7 21 (7.39%) XGBoost
8 20 (7.04%) SpaCy
9 19 (6.69%) NumPy
10 17 (5.99%) REST
11 14 (4.93%) AngularJS
11 14 (4.93%) React
12 13 (4.58%) Flask
12 13 (4.58%) JPA
12 13 (4.58%) Kafka
12 13 (4.58%) Spring
13 10 (3.52%) EDI
14 9 (3.17%) MXNet
15 8 (2.82%) Apache Beam
16 6 (2.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 102 (35.92%) Algorithms
2 32 (11.27%) Data Structures
3 24 (8.45%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.46%) Robotics
7 5 (1.76%) Semantic Web
8 3 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.06%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.70%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.70%) Femtech
9 2 (0.70%) Social Network
9 2 (0.70%) W3C
10 1 (0.35%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.35%) CUDA
10 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.35%) IoT
10 1 (0.35%) iPad
10 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.23%) Linux
2 3 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (1.06%) Windows
2 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (93.66%) Machine Learning
2 239 (84.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 184 (64.79%) Data Science
4 124 (43.66%) Mathematics
5 114 (40.14%) Visualisation
6 101 (35.56%) Agile
7 98 (34.51%) Decision-Making
7 98 (34.51%) Generative AI
7 98 (34.51%) Statistics
8 89 (31.34%) Deep Learning
9 84 (29.58%) Computer Science
9 84 (29.58%) LLM
10 80 (28.17%) Neural Network
11 79 (27.82%) MLOps
12 76 (26.76%) Computer Vision
12 76 (26.76%) Software Engineering
13 60 (21.13%) Analytics
13 60 (21.13%) Customer Experience
13 60 (21.13%) Predictive Modelling
14 59 (20.77%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 199 (70.07%) Python
2 134 (47.18%) SQL
3 34 (11.97%) Java
4 23 (8.10%) R
5 15 (5.28%) C
6 11 (3.87%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.46%) C++
8 5 (1.76%) C#
9 4 (1.41%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) Scala
10 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 142 (50.00%) Degree
2 77 (27.11%) Master's Degree
3 45 (15.85%) DBS Check
4 43 (15.14%) PhD
5 14 (4.93%) Security Cleared
6 11 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.11%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.17%) GDPR
2 7 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.35%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 15 (5.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (3.17%) Terraform
2 5 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Core Impact
3 2 (0.70%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (24.30%) Databricks
2 22 (7.75%) Google
3 14 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.93%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.58%) Oracle
5 11 (3.87%) Dataiku
6 10 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.82%) Facebook
8 4 (1.41%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.41%) Dell
9 3 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.06%) Embarcadero
9 3 (1.06%) Informatica
10 2 (0.70%) IBM
10 2 (0.70%) Sage
11 1 (0.35%) Samsung