Natural Language Processing Jobs

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Natural Language Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 654 739 467
Rank change year-on-year +85 -272 +130
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 275 208 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.23% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 131 136 356
10th Percentile £46,306 £50,000 £49,950
25th Percentile £57,597 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,750 £73,346
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% +7.37% +8.66%
75th Percentile £96,539 £95,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.63% - +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing.

Salary trend for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Natural Language Processing in the UK

Natural Language Processing
Top 15 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +44 210 £77,500 -3.13% 94
London +87 133 £87,500 +2.94% 57
UK excluding London -23 130 £70,576 +17.63% 38
Work from Home +73 109 £70,000 -13.23% 46
Scotland -12 58 £70,576 +28.22% 2
South West -19 28 £65,000 -5.45% 7
South East -2 24 £77,500 +19.23% 14
North of England +16 10 £62,783 +19.59% 6
East of England -17 8 £87,500 +16.67% 4
Yorkshire +67 6 £70,576 - 1
North West -22 2 £61,391 +16.94% 5
Midlands -35 2 £100,000 +25.00% 2
North East - 2 £62,783 -
West Midlands -11 1 £75,000 -10.45% 1
East Midlands -36 1 £125,000 +233.33% 1

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 18 (6.55%) SAS
2 16 (5.82%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.82%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) Luigi
5 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.91%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.82%) Simulink
3 5 (1.82%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 56 (20.36%) AWS
2 39 (14.18%) Azure
3 37 (13.45%) GCP
4 14 (5.09%) Amazon SageMaker
5 10 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.27%) Google Gemini
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (2.55%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (2.55%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (1.82%) ChatGPT
9 5 (1.82%) SaaS
10 4 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.09%) Serverless
11 3 (1.09%) Slack
11 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.73%) Dialogflow
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Firewall
1 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.09%) SSL
2 1 (0.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.36%) OFDM
2 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.36%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.91%) Tableau
2 31 (11.27%) Big Data
3 13 (4.73%) MySQL
4 11 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.27%) Hadoop
5 9 (3.27%) Power BI
6 7 (2.55%) Data Mining
6 7 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.45%) DTS
8 4 (1.45%) Text Mining
9 3 (1.09%) Bigtable
9 3 (1.09%) CouchDB
9 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.09%) Redis
9 3 (1.09%) RethinkDB
9 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.73%) Metadata
10 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 72 (26.18%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) JIRA
3 4 (1.45%) MLflow
4 3 (1.09%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.09%) ERwin
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.73%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.36%) git-flow
6 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Mocha
6 1 (0.36%) Mockito
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 87 (31.64%) Finance
3 55 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (18.91%) Law
5 42 (15.27%) Marketing
6 24 (8.73%) Banking
7 19 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (5.82%) Legal
9 12 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.64%) Korean Language
11 8 (2.91%) Games
11 8 (2.91%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Electronics
13 2 (0.73%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.36%) Front Office
14 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (41.82%) Data Scientist
2 95 (34.55%) Senior
3 90 (32.73%) Senior Data Scientist
4 27 (9.82%) Lead
5 25 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 24 (8.73%) Software Engineering Director
7 20 (7.27%) Lead Data Scientist
8 18 (6.55%) Developer
9 14 (5.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 13 (4.73%) Python Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 10 (3.64%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.64%) Project Manager
12 10 (3.64%) Python Software Engineer
13 8 (2.91%) Analyst
14 7 (2.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
14 7 (2.55%) Junior
14 7 (2.55%) Principal Engineer
15 6 (2.18%) Junior Data Scientist
15 6 (2.18%) Principal Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (37.45%) TensorFlow
2 81 (29.45%) Pandas
3 68 (24.73%) scikit-learn
4 59 (21.45%) PyTorch
5 51 (18.55%) PySpark
6 21 (7.64%) Keras
7 19 (6.91%) SpaCy
8 18 (6.55%) XGBoost
9 17 (6.18%) NumPy
10 16 (5.82%) React
10 16 (5.82%) REST
11 14 (5.09%) AngularJS
11 14 (5.09%) Spring
12 13 (4.73%) JPA
12 13 (4.73%) Kafka
13 11 (4.00%) Flask
14 10 (3.64%) EDI
15 8 (2.91%) Apache Beam
16 7 (2.55%) MXNet
17 5 (1.82%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 102 (37.09%) Algorithms
2 32 (11.64%) Data Structures
3 24 (8.73%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.55%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.55%) Robotics
7 5 (1.82%) Semantic Web
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.73%) Femtech
9 2 (0.73%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.73%) Social Network
9 2 (0.73%) W3C
10 1 (0.36%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.36%) CUDA
10 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.36%) IoT
10 1 (0.36%) iPad
10 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.36%) Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Windows
2 3 (1.09%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.73%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (91.64%) Machine Learning
2 230 (83.64%) Artificial Intelligence
3 171 (62.18%) Data Science
4 120 (43.64%) Mathematics
5 111 (40.36%) Visualisation
6 101 (36.73%) Agile
7 98 (35.64%) Decision-Making
8 91 (33.09%) Generative AI
8 91 (33.09%) Statistics
9 82 (29.82%) Computer Science
10 81 (29.45%) Software Engineering
11 80 (29.09%) Deep Learning
12 76 (27.64%) MLOps
13 75 (27.27%) LLM
14 74 (26.91%) Neural Network
15 69 (25.09%) Computer Vision
16 60 (21.82%) Customer Experience
17 59 (21.45%) Actionable Insight
18 58 (21.09%) Analytics
19 57 (20.73%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 195 (70.91%) Python
2 130 (47.27%) SQL
3 35 (12.73%) Java
4 22 (8.00%) R
5 15 (5.45%) C
6 10 (3.64%) MATLAB
7 8 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.55%) C++
9 4 (1.45%) Bash
10 3 (1.09%) C#
11 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.36%) Scala
12 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (48.36%) Degree
2 74 (26.91%) Master's Degree
3 45 (16.36%) DBS Check
4 35 (12.73%) PhD
5 17 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.36%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.45%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (4.73%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.55%) Terraform
3 2 (0.73%) Core Impact
3 2 (0.73%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Kibana
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 71 (25.82%) Databricks
2 17 (6.18%) Google
3 14 (5.09%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.73%) OpenAI
4 13 (4.73%) Oracle
5 10 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.27%) Dataiku
7 7 (2.55%) Facebook
8 4 (1.45%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.45%) Dell
9 3 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.09%) Embarcadero
9 3 (1.09%) Informatica
10 2 (0.73%) IBM
11 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.36%) Samsung
11 1 (0.36%) Splunk