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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 741 462
Rank change year-on-year +101 -279 +140
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 280 209 1,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.22% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.23% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 134 135 348
10th Percentile £46,306 £50,000 £49,950
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £96,539 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,288 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.15% - +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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +54 213 £77,500 +3.33% 95
London +139 137 £87,500 +7.25% 57
UK excluding London +6 130 £70,288 +17.15% 42
Work from Home +69 114 £70,000 - 51
Scotland -12 60 £50,000 -9.16% 4
South West -16 28 £65,000 -5.45% 11
South East 0 26 £77,500 +19.23% 13
North of England +24 10 £62,783 +19.59% 6
Yorkshire +66 6 £70,576 - 2
East of England -12 3 £91,250 +21.67% 4
Midlands -17 3 £75,000 -6.25%
North West -18 2 £61,391 +16.94% 4
East Midlands -20 2 £82,500 +120.00%
North East - 2 £62,783 -
West Midlands -16 1 £75,000 -10.45%

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 19 (6.79%) SAS
2 16 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.79%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.07%) Apache
4 3 (1.07%) Confluence
4 3 (1.07%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.86%) Chatbot
3 6 (2.14%) Simulink
3 6 (2.14%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.07%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (21.43%) AWS
2 42 (15.00%) Azure
2 42 (15.00%) GCP
3 17 (6.07%) Amazon SageMaker
4 12 (4.29%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
6 8 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (1.79%) ChatGPT
7 5 (1.79%) SaaS
8 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.07%) Serverless
9 3 (1.07%) Slack
9 3 (1.07%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.71%) Dialogflow
10 2 (0.71%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.07%) Firewall
1 3 (1.07%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.07%) SSL
2 1 (0.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.36%) OFDM
2 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.36%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.93%) Tableau
2 31 (11.07%) Big Data
3 13 (4.64%) MySQL
4 11 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (3.93%) Power BI
5 9 (3.21%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.50%) Data Mining
6 7 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.43%) DTS
8 4 (1.43%) Text Mining
9 3 (1.07%) Bigtable
9 3 (1.07%) CouchDB
9 3 (1.07%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.07%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.07%) Redis
9 3 (1.07%) RethinkDB
9 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 74 (26.43%) Git
2 5 (1.79%) JIRA
3 4 (1.43%) MLflow
4 3 (1.07%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.07%) ERwin
4 3 (1.07%) GitLab
5 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.71%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.36%) git-flow
6 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Mocha
6 1 (0.36%) Mockito
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (38.93%) Social Skills
2 89 (31.79%) Finance
3 56 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (18.93%) Law
5 42 (15.00%) Marketing
6 25 (8.93%) Banking
7 20 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.93%) Legal
10 10 (3.57%) Korean Language
11 9 (3.21%) Games
11 9 (3.21%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Electronics
13 2 (0.71%) Retail
13 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.36%) Front Office
14 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (43.21%) Data Scientist
2 95 (33.93%) Senior
3 93 (33.21%) Senior Data Scientist
4 26 (9.29%) Lead
5 24 (8.57%) Software Engineering Director
6 23 (8.21%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.50%) Lead Data Scientist
8 19 (6.79%) Developer
9 16 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 12 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 10 (3.57%) Analyst
11 10 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.57%) Python Engineer
12 8 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 8 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) Junior
13 7 (2.50%) Principal Data Scientist
13 7 (2.50%) Python Software Engineer
13 7 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (38.21%) TensorFlow
2 84 (30.00%) Pandas
3 70 (25.00%) scikit-learn
4 64 (22.86%) PyTorch
5 51 (18.21%) PySpark
6 22 (7.86%) Keras
7 19 (6.79%) SpaCy
8 18 (6.43%) NumPy
8 18 (6.43%) XGBoost
9 16 (5.71%) REST
10 15 (5.36%) React
11 14 (5.00%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.00%) Spring
12 13 (4.64%) JPA
12 13 (4.64%) Kafka
13 11 (3.93%) Flask
14 10 (3.57%) EDI
15 8 (2.86%) Apache Beam
15 8 (2.86%) MXNet
16 5 (1.79%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 103 (36.79%) Algorithms
2 32 (11.43%) Data Structures
3 24 (8.57%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.50%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.50%) Robotics
7 5 (1.79%) Semantic Web
8 4 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.71%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.71%) Femtech
9 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.71%) Social Network
9 2 (0.71%) W3C
10 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.36%) CUDA
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.36%) IoT
10 1 (0.36%) iPad
10 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.29%) Linux
2 3 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (1.07%) Windows
2 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (93.57%) Machine Learning
2 233 (83.21%) Artificial Intelligence
3 179 (63.93%) Data Science
4 124 (44.29%) Mathematics
5 113 (40.36%) Visualisation
6 104 (37.14%) Agile
7 98 (35.00%) Decision-Making
8 94 (33.57%) Statistics
9 92 (32.86%) Generative AI
10 85 (30.36%) Computer Science
11 83 (29.64%) Deep Learning
12 78 (27.86%) LLM
12 78 (27.86%) Software Engineering
13 76 (27.14%) MLOps
14 75 (26.79%) Neural Network
15 72 (25.71%) Computer Vision
16 61 (21.79%) Analytics
17 60 (21.43%) Customer Experience
18 59 (21.07%) Actionable Insight
19 57 (20.36%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 199 (71.07%) Python
2 133 (47.50%) SQL
3 35 (12.50%) Java
4 22 (7.86%) R
5 15 (5.36%) C
6 11 (3.93%) MATLAB
7 7 (2.50%) C++
8 4 (1.43%) Bash
8 4 (1.43%) C#
9 3 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (49.29%) Degree
2 77 (27.50%) Master's Degree
3 45 (16.07%) DBS Check
4 38 (13.57%) PhD
5 17 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.64%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.79%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.07%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.64%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (5.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (2.86%) Terraform
2 7 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Core Impact
3 2 (0.71%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 72 (25.71%) Databricks
2 20 (7.14%) Google
3 14 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.64%) Oracle
5 10 (3.57%) Dataiku
5 10 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.86%) Facebook
7 4 (1.43%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.43%) Dell
8 3 (1.07%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.07%) Embarcadero
8 3 (1.07%) Informatica
9 2 (0.71%) IBM
9 2 (0.71%) Sage
10 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.36%) Samsung
10 1 (0.36%) Splunk