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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 410 532
Rank change year-on-year +105 +122 -44
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 42 52 86
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 41 79
10th Percentile £346 £413 £530
25th Percentile £400 £479 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £888 £650
90th Percentile £775 £1,100 £740
UK median daily rate £520 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -9.57% -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - +17.70%

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 12,749 21,334 39,996
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.11% 89.63% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,583 15,097 29,149
10th Percentile £325 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 503 514
10th Percentile £15.17 £17.70 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.63 £21.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.60%
75th Percentile £60.93 £67.50 £60.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%

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 27 June 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 (9.52%) Apache Spark
1 4 (9.52%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) GCP
4 7 (16.67%) Serverless
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon Bedrock
6 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (7.14%) Azure AI
7 3 (7.14%) PaaS
8 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.76%) Textract
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.38%) dbt
9 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.38%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) Big Data
2 4 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.76%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Pinecone
5 1 (2.38%) Tableau
General
1 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Czech Language
3 3 (7.14%) Health Technology
3 3 (7.14%) Legal
3 3 (7.14%) Retail
4 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Developer
2 8 (19.05%) Senior
3 7 (16.67%) Consultant
4 6 (14.29%) Data Scientist
5 5 (11.90%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Automation Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 3 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Consultant
8 2 (4.76%) Data Consultant
8 2 (4.76%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Implementation Consultant
8 2 (4.76%) Machine Learning Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 6 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 6 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 6 (14.29%) XGBoost
3 5 (11.90%) scikit-learn
4 4 (9.52%) Matplotlib
4 4 (9.52%) Pandas
4 4 (9.52%) SpaCy
5 2 (4.76%) Django
5 2 (4.76%) EDI
5 2 (4.76%) NumPy
5 2 (4.76%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.38%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.38%) Kafka
6 1 (2.38%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) IVR
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (88.10%) Machine Learning
2 32 (76.19%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (42.86%) Data Science
4 11 (26.19%) Deep Learning
5 10 (23.81%) Data Analysis
6 9 (21.43%) Agile
6 9 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 8 (19.05%) Scrum
8 7 (16.67%) Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) LLM
9 6 (14.29%) Generative AI
9 6 (14.29%) Logistic Regression
9 6 (14.29%) LSTM
9 6 (14.29%) Random Forest
9 6 (14.29%) Transfer Learning
10 5 (11.90%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (11.90%) E-Commerce
10 5 (11.90%) ETL
10 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
10 5 (11.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.14%) Scala
6 2 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Grafana
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) OpenAI
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Phenom
5 1 (2.38%) Ariba