Natural Language Processing Contracts

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 578 677
Rank change year-on-year +83 +99 -56
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 89 119 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 87 139
10th Percentile £350 £425 £475
25th Percentile £425 £469 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £630 £763 £700
90th Percentile £775 £1,100 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £495 £495
% change year-on-year -7.12% +0.05% -4.81%
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 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 9 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 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 74 £550 -15.38% 86
London +83 61 £566 -16.88% 56
Work from Home +112 43 £500 -9.09% 39
UK excluding London +1 21 £460 -7.12% 33
Scotland +44 13 £469 +1.41% 2
South East +8 6 £400 -30.43% 12
West Midlands +18 1 £375 -34.78%
Midlands +17 1 £375 -34.78%
South West +1 1 £450 -18.18% 6

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 8 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.37%) Apache
3 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.37%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.57%) AWS
2 22 (24.72%) Azure
3 20 (22.47%) Serverless
4 16 (17.98%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (15.73%) Amazon S3
6 12 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.48%) GCP
7 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.87%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (6.74%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (6.74%) Textract
10 5 (5.62%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (4.49%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.37%) Azure AI
12 3 (3.37%) Lucidchart
12 3 (3.37%) PaaS
13 2 (2.25%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (2.25%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (2.25%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (8.99%) Big Data
4 6 (6.74%) Data Mining
4 6 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.49%) Power BI
7 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.37%) Tableau
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.12%) Flink
9 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.12%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Git
1 2 (2.25%) GitLab
1 2 (2.25%) RStudio
2 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) MLflow
General
1 19 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Legal
6 4 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.37%) Czech Language
7 3 (3.37%) Health Technology
7 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Retail
9 1 (1.12%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) Developer
2 13 (14.61%) Consultant
3 12 (13.48%) Data Engineer
4 11 (12.36%) Data Scientist
5 10 (11.24%) Lead
6 9 (10.11%) Automation Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Senior
7 7 (7.87%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Product Owner
9 5 (5.62%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Contract Management Consultant
10 4 (4.49%) Data Science Leader
10 4 (4.49%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Lead Product Owner
10 4 (4.49%) Product Lead
10 4 (4.49%) Senior Data Scientist
11 3 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Computer Vision Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) PyTorch
2 18 (20.22%) TensorFlow
3 14 (15.73%) AWS CDK
4 8 (8.99%) scikit-learn
5 7 (7.87%) SpaCy
5 7 (7.87%) XGBoost
6 3 (3.37%) EDI
6 3 (3.37%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.37%) OpenCV
6 3 (3.37%) Pandas
7 2 (2.25%) Django
7 2 (2.25%) Google JAX
7 2 (2.25%) Kafka
7 2 (2.25%) NumPy
7 2 (2.25%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.25%) PostGIS
7 2 (2.25%) REST
7 2 (2.25%) RESTful
8 1 (1.12%) BentoML
8 1 (1.12%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (3.37%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.25%) Social Media
5 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.12%) Blog
5 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.12%) IVR
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (84.27%) Machine Learning
2 68 (76.40%) Artificial Intelligence
3 35 (39.33%) Data Science
4 24 (26.97%) Deep Learning
5 18 (20.22%) Agile
5 18 (20.22%) Computer Science
5 18 (20.22%) LLM
6 16 (17.98%) Analytics
7 15 (16.85%) Data Analysis
8 14 (15.73%) Scrum
9 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.36%) ETL
10 11 (12.36%) Generative AI
11 10 (11.24%) Computer Vision
11 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (11.24%) Kanban
11 10 (11.24%) User Experience
12 9 (10.11%) Conversational UI
12 9 (10.11%) Data Engineering
12 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 54 (60.67%) Python
2 14 (15.73%) SQL
3 13 (14.61%) Java
4 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.37%) Bash
5 3 (3.37%) Scala
6 2 (2.25%) C++
6 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.25%) Julia
7 1 (1.12%) C#
7 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.12%) R
7 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) Degree
2 9 (10.11%) Master's Degree
3 8 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.49%) PhD
6 3 (3.37%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (12.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Grafana
2 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.25%) Terraform
4 1 (1.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) OpenAI
2 5 (5.62%) Ariba
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.49%) Databricks
3 4 (4.49%) Google
4 3 (3.37%) Genesys
4 3 (3.37%) Phenom
5 1 (1.12%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.12%) DataRobot