Natural Language Processing Contracts in London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 333 426
Rank change year-on-year +39 +93 +53
Contract jobs citing Natural Language Processing 54 62 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.35% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 43 53
10th Percentile £418 £340 £435
25th Percentile £463 £456 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £688
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -16.73% +14.58%
75th Percentile £600 £724 £888
90th Percentile £800 £775 £1,100
England median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,822 15,557 22,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.34% 88.46% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,911 11,098 16,530
10th Percentile £336 £340 £372
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 301 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.79
Median hourly rate £32.70 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% -25.00% +9.86%
75th Percentile £50.38 £48.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £63.40 £68.00 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%

Natural Language Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in London.

Daily rate trend for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Natural Language Processing in London over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Natural Language Processing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Natural Language Processing in London

Natural Language Processing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 June 2025. 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
Central London +20 10 £538 -34.85% 78
South London - 2 - -
Natural Language Processing
England

Natural Language Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (14.81%) Jupyter
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.70%) Drupal
4 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (18.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (5.56%) Sketch
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Shopify
1 1 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) GCP
3 5 (9.26%) Azure AI
3 5 (9.26%) Figma
3 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (7.41%) Vertex AI
5 3 (5.56%) ChatGPT
5 3 (5.56%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (5.56%) IBM Watson
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
5 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 5 (9.26%) Big Data
3 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (7.41%) Power BI
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Tableau
5 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) OLAP
5 1 (1.85%) OLTP
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) MLflow
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (1.85%) ERwin
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.78%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Retail
5 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing
6 2 (3.70%) Publishing
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Data Scientist
3 6 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Designer
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Gen AI Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Data Science Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Product Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) PyTorch
2 12 (22.22%) TensorFlow
3 8 (14.81%) Hugging Face
3 8 (14.81%) LangChain
4 7 (12.96%) Pandas
5 6 (11.11%) REST
6 5 (9.26%) scikit-learn
7 4 (7.41%) Keras
8 3 (5.56%) FastAPI
8 3 (5.56%) NumPy
9 2 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.70%) Regular Expression
9 2 (3.70%) XGBoost
10 1 (1.85%) Anaconda
10 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.85%) Kafka
10 1 (1.85%) PySpark
10 1 (1.85%) pytest
10 1 (1.85%) React
10 1 (1.85%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.26%) AI Agents
3 4 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 4 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.56%) Oculus
4 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.56%) Virtual Reality
4 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.56%) Wiki
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.70%) Life Science
6 1 (1.85%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (90.74%) Artificial Intelligence
2 46 (85.19%) Machine Learning
3 27 (50.00%) LLM
4 22 (40.74%) Data Science
4 22 (40.74%) Generative AI
5 17 (31.48%) Deep Learning
5 17 (31.48%) MLOps
6 14 (25.93%) Conversational UI
7 12 (22.22%) Computer Vision
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
9 10 (18.52%) DevOps
10 9 (16.67%) Agile
10 9 (16.67%) Analytics
10 9 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (14.81%) Conversational AI
12 7 (12.96%) SDLC
13 6 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 6 (11.11%) User Experience
14 5 (9.26%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 38 (70.37%) Python
2 9 (16.67%) SQL
3 4 (7.41%) Clojure
3 4 (7.41%) Elixir
3 4 (7.41%) R
3 4 (7.41%) Rust
3 4 (7.41%) Scala
4 3 (5.56%) C#
4 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.70%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Degree
2 8 (14.81%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.56%) PhD
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) ISEB
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Kubeflow
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (20.37%) Databricks
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) Google
3 5 (9.26%) Genesys
3 5 (9.26%) OpenAI
4 3 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe
5 1 (1.85%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.85%) DataRobot
5 1 (1.85%) Informatica
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.85%) Sparx
5 1 (1.85%) UiPath
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