Natural Language Processing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Natural Language Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 645 637 559
Rank change year-on-year -8 -78 +38
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 135 91 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.16% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.17% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 75 41 109
10th Percentile £46,306 £46,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.63% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £73,346
% change year-on-year -3.13% +9.07% +8.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Natural Language Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland -16 58 £70,576 +28.22% 2
South West -28 30 £63,750 -7.27% 6
South East -21 26 £77,500 +19.23% 12
North of England +2 10 £62,783 +19.59% 6
East of England -15 9 £91,250 +21.67% 3
Yorkshire +69 6 £70,576 - 1
North West -37 2 £61,391 +16.94% 4
Midlands -41 2 £100,000 +25.00%
North East - 2 £62,783 - 1
West Midlands -11 1 £75,000 -10.45%
East Midlands -32 1 £125,000 +233.33%
Natural Language Processing
UK

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (7.41%) SAS
2 6 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.22%) Apache
3 3 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.22%) Confluence
3 3 (2.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.44%) Chatbot
3 5 (3.70%) Simulink
3 5 (3.70%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.26%) AWS
2 9 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
2 9 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 8 (5.93%) GCP
4 7 (5.19%) Amazon Bedrock
5 6 (4.44%) Azure
6 5 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.96%) ChatGPT
8 3 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.22%) Serverless
8 3 (2.22%) Slack
8 3 (2.22%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) Firewall
1 3 (2.22%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.22%) SSL
2 1 (0.74%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.74%) OFDM
2 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.74%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Big Data
2 13 (9.63%) MySQL
3 6 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.96%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.22%) Bigtable
6 3 (2.22%) CouchDB
6 3 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.22%) Power BI
6 3 (2.22%) Redis
6 3 (2.22%) RethinkDB
7 2 (1.48%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (13.33%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) JIRA
3 3 (2.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) JMeter
4 2 (1.48%) JUnit
4 2 (1.48%) Mockito
General
1 71 (52.59%) Finance
2 45 (33.33%) Law
3 44 (32.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (23.70%) Marketing
5 24 (17.78%) Social Skills
6 22 (16.30%) Banking
7 10 (7.41%) Korean Language
8 9 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (5.93%) Legal
10 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
11 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.96%) Games
13 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (28.89%) Data Scientist
2 24 (17.78%) Software Engineer
2 24 (17.78%) Software Engineering Director
3 21 (15.56%) Senior
4 20 (14.81%) Senior Data Scientist
5 17 (12.59%) Developer
6 15 (11.11%) Lead
7 11 (8.15%) Python Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Lead Data Scientist
8 10 (7.41%) Project Manager
8 10 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
9 9 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Full Stack Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Junior
11 6 (4.44%) Junior Data Scientist
12 5 (3.70%) Data Engineer
13 4 (2.96%) Machine Learning Developer
13 4 (2.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.19%) Pandas
2 29 (21.48%) PyTorch
3 27 (20.00%) TensorFlow
4 17 (12.59%) SpaCy
5 15 (11.11%) Keras
5 15 (11.11%) React
5 15 (11.11%) REST
5 15 (11.11%) Spring
6 13 (9.63%) AngularJS
6 13 (9.63%) JPA
6 13 (9.63%) NumPy
6 13 (9.63%) scikit-learn
6 13 (9.63%) XGBoost
7 10 (7.41%) EDI
8 8 (5.93%) PySpark
9 7 (5.19%) Flask
10 5 (3.70%) Statsmodels
11 4 (2.96%) SciPy
12 3 (2.22%) MXNet
12 3 (2.22%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.44%) Algorithms
2 24 (17.78%) Cloud Native
3 21 (15.56%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.67%) Reinsurance
5 7 (5.19%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (5.19%) Robotics
6 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.74%) iPad
9 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (2.22%) Windows
2 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (88.15%) Machine Learning
2 110 (81.48%) Artificial Intelligence
3 85 (62.96%) Agile
4 61 (45.19%) Software Engineering
5 56 (41.48%) Data Science
6 55 (40.74%) Visualisation
7 46 (34.07%) Decision-Making
8 44 (32.59%) Computer Vision
9 35 (25.93%) Computer Science
10 34 (25.19%) Deep Learning
10 34 (25.19%) LLM
11 33 (24.44%) Mathematics
12 32 (23.70%) Data Ingestion
13 28 (20.74%) Decision Tree
14 27 (20.00%) Analytics
14 27 (20.00%) CI/CD
14 27 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (19.26%) Random Forest
16 25 (18.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 25 (18.52%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 79 (58.52%) Python
2 42 (31.11%) SQL
3 20 (14.81%) Java
4 8 (5.93%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.44%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.22%) Bash
6 3 (2.22%) C
6 3 (2.22%) R
7 2 (1.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.74%) C++
8 1 (0.74%) Rust
8 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (25.19%) Degree
2 11 (8.15%) PhD
3 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 9 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.22%) Terraform
3 2 (1.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (12.59%) Databricks
2 14 (10.37%) Oracle
3 10 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.19%) Facebook
5 7 (5.19%) Google
6 5 (3.70%) Dataiku
6 5 (3.70%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.48%) Splunk