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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 540 638
Rank change year-on-year +36 +98 -58
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 145 51 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 56 40 80
10th Percentile £45,052 £51,250 £44,750
25th Percentile £53,938 £55,625 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,879 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,688 £75,938
90th Percentile £94,125 £107,500 £89,852
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +8.70%

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 44,852 31,653 64,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.42% 94.39% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,726 21,312 37,405
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,748 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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
South East +25 65 £65,000 -26.76% 12
North of England +16 38 £62,879 +0.61% 4
North West -23 23 £85,000 +36.00% 4
South West +10 12 £55,000 -7.49% 1
Midlands -20 12 £62,879 -3.26% 2
East of England -47 12 £93,750 +29.31% 7
Yorkshire - 9 £62,879 -
West Midlands -25 8 £62,879 -16.16%
North East - 6 £51,373 -
Scotland -7 5 £40,000 -33.03%
East Midlands -26 4 - - 2
Channel Islands - 1 - -
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 2 (1.38%) Apache
1 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.38%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.03%) Azure
2 13 (8.97%) AWS
3 9 (6.21%) Azure AI
4 8 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.14%) GCP
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 5 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.07%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.07%) Serverless
9 2 (1.38%) Azure App Service
9 2 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.38%) GitHub
9 2 (1.38%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) Power BI
2 7 (4.83%) Tableau
3 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.76%) Big Data
5 3 (2.07%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.07%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.38%) Bigtable
6 2 (1.38%) CouchDB
6 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.38%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.38%) Redis
6 2 (1.38%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Git
2 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.07%) JMeter
2 3 (2.07%) JUnit
2 3 (2.07%) Mockito
General
1 58 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 28 (19.31%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (11.72%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.97%) Finance
6 10 (6.90%) Legal
7 5 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.76%) Banking
8 4 (2.76%) Law
9 2 (1.38%) Marketing
9 2 (1.38%) Publishing
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 52 (35.86%) Lead
2 46 (31.72%) Data Scientist
3 42 (28.97%) Data Science Leader
4 29 (20.00%) Senior
5 23 (15.86%) Consultant
6 19 (13.10%) Data Consultant
6 19 (13.10%) Senior Data Scientist
7 17 (11.72%) Data Science Consultant
8 14 (9.66%) Architect
8 14 (9.66%) Data Architect
8 14 (9.66%) Data Manager
8 14 (9.66%) Data Science Manager
8 14 (9.66%) Lead Architect
8 14 (9.66%) Lead Data Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 4 (2.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 4 (2.76%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) PyTorch
2 10 (6.90%) PySpark
2 10 (6.90%) TensorFlow
3 5 (3.45%) Pandas
4 4 (2.76%) Keras
4 4 (2.76%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.07%) .NET
5 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.07%) Apache Camel
5 3 (2.07%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.07%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (2.07%) CSS
5 3 (2.07%) Entity Framework
5 3 (2.07%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.07%) HTML
5 3 (2.07%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (2.07%) REST
5 3 (2.07%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.07%) Web Services
5 3 (2.07%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.83%) Reinsurance
3 4 (2.76%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.07%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.38%) Acoustics
5 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (88.97%) Machine Learning
2 119 (82.07%) Data Science
3 96 (66.21%) Mentoring
4 77 (53.10%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (52.41%) Statistics
6 74 (51.03%) Software Engineering
7 69 (47.59%) Computer Vision
8 66 (45.52%) Data Analysis
9 61 (42.07%) Cybersecurity
10 60 (41.38%) Statistical Modelling
11 57 (39.31%) Decision-Making
12 51 (35.17%) Analytics
13 48 (33.10%) Agile
14 45 (31.03%) Artificial Intelligence
15 38 (26.21%) Coaching
16 28 (19.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (18.62%) Computer Science
18 21 (14.48%) Collaborative Working
19 20 (13.79%) Mathematics
20 19 (13.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (58.62%) Python
2 52 (35.86%) SQL
3 33 (22.76%) R
4 16 (11.03%) Java
5 9 (6.21%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.21%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.83%) C#
7 4 (2.76%) Scala
8 3 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.07%) VB
9 1 (0.69%) C
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (50.34%) Degree
2 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.83%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) PhD
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) QA
2 8 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.07%) Kibana
2 3 (2.07%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (8.28%) Databricks
2 9 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.83%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.45%) Google
5 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.07%) Genesys
5 3 (2.07%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) F5
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle