Natural Language Processing Contracts

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 581 683
Rank change year-on-year +67 +102 -65
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 88 114 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 82 141
10th Percentile £350 £425 £475
25th Percentile £425 £460 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £630 £738 £700
90th Percentile £775 £1,100 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £495
% change year-on-year -5.64% -1.52% -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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
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 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 +80 73 £550 -13.73% 90
London +88 60 £573 -15.96% 56
Work from Home +108 42 £503 -14.38% 44
UK excluding London +14 21 £460 -5.64% 36
Scotland +35 13 £469 +1.41% 2
South East +8 6 £400 -30.43% 14
Midlands +22 1 £375 -34.78% 1
West Midlands +13 1 £375 -34.78%
South West +11 1 £450 -18.18% 7

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 7 (7.95%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.41%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (40.91%) AWS
2 21 (23.86%) Azure
3 19 (21.59%) Serverless
4 16 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (14.77%) Amazon S3
6 12 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (13.64%) GCP
7 8 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.95%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (6.82%) Textract
10 5 (5.68%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.41%) Azure AI
12 3 (3.41%) Lucidchart
12 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
13 2 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (2.27%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.36%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (7.95%) Big Data
4 5 (5.68%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.41%) Power BI
7 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.27%) Tableau
8 1 (1.14%) Flink
8 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Git
1 2 (2.27%) GitLab
1 2 (2.27%) RStudio
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) MLflow
General
1 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.05%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Legal
6 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.41%) Health Technology
7 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Czech Language
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Electronics
9 1 (1.14%) Law
9 1 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (20.45%) Developer
2 13 (14.77%) Consultant
3 11 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 11 (12.50%) Data Scientist
4 10 (11.36%) Lead
5 9 (10.23%) Automation Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 5 (5.68%) Product Owner
8 5 (5.68%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Contract Management Consultant
9 4 (4.55%) Data Science Leader
9 4 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Product Owner
9 4 (4.55%) Product Lead
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (3.41%) Computer Vision Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.73%) PyTorch
2 18 (20.45%) TensorFlow
3 14 (15.91%) AWS CDK
4 8 (9.09%) scikit-learn
5 7 (7.95%) SpaCy
5 7 (7.95%) XGBoost
6 3 (3.41%) EDI
6 3 (3.41%) Matplotlib
6 3 (3.41%) OpenCV
6 3 (3.41%) Pandas
7 2 (2.27%) Django
7 2 (2.27%) Google JAX
7 2 (2.27%) Kafka
7 2 (2.27%) NumPy
7 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.27%) PostGIS
7 2 (2.27%) REST
7 2 (2.27%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) BentoML
8 1 (1.14%) Prisma
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (3.41%) Solar Panel
4 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.27%) Social Media
5 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.14%) Blog
5 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.14%) IVR
5 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (84.09%) Machine Learning
2 68 (77.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 34 (38.64%) Data Science
4 24 (27.27%) Deep Learning
5 18 (20.45%) Computer Science
5 18 (20.45%) LLM
6 17 (19.32%) Agile
7 15 (17.05%) Analytics
7 15 (17.05%) Data Analysis
8 13 (14.77%) Scrum
9 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.50%) Generative AI
11 10 (11.36%) Computer Vision
11 10 (11.36%) ETL
11 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (11.36%) Kanban
11 10 (11.36%) User Experience
12 9 (10.23%) Conversational UI
12 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (60.23%) Python
2 13 (14.77%) SQL
3 12 (13.64%) Java
4 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.41%) Bash
6 2 (2.27%) C++
6 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.27%) Julia
6 2 (2.27%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) C#
7 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.14%) R
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) Master's Degree
3 8 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) PhD
6 3 (3.41%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Grafana
2 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) OpenAI
2 5 (5.68%) Ariba
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.55%) Databricks
3 4 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (3.41%) Genesys
4 3 (3.41%) Phenom
5 1 (1.14%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.14%) DataRobot