Natural Language Processing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 641 559
Rank change year-on-year +1 -82 +54
Permanent jobs citing Natural Language Processing 130 92 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.16% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.17% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 70 41 105
10th Percentile £46,306 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,288 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.15% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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 2 June 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 2 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
Scotland -14 60 £50,000 -9.16% 4
South West -18 28 £65,000 -5.45% 11
South East -5 26 £77,500 +19.23% 13
North of England +24 10 £62,783 +19.59% 6
Yorkshire +64 6 £70,576 - 2
Midlands -15 3 £75,000 -6.25%
East of England -16 3 £91,250 +21.67% 8
East Midlands -17 2 £82,500 +120.00%
North West -26 2 £61,391 +16.94% 4
North East - 2 £62,783 -
West Midlands -12 1 £75,000 -10.45%
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 10 (7.69%) SAS
2 6 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.31%) Confluence
3 3 (2.31%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.62%) Chatbot
2 6 (4.62%) Simulink
2 6 (4.62%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.46%) AWS
2 9 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
2 9 (6.92%) GCP
3 8 (6.15%) Amazon SageMaker
4 5 (3.85%) Azure
4 5 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.08%) ChatGPT
6 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.31%) Slack
6 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) Serverless
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) Firewall
1 3 (2.31%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.31%) SSL
2 1 (0.77%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.77%) OFDM
2 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.77%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) Big Data
2 13 (10.00%) MySQL
3 7 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.85%) Power BI
5 4 (3.08%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.31%) Bigtable
6 3 (2.31%) CouchDB
6 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.31%) Redis
6 3 (2.31%) RethinkDB
7 2 (1.54%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Git
2 4 (3.08%) JIRA
3 3 (2.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) JMeter
4 1 (0.77%) JUnit
4 1 (0.77%) Mockito
General
1 73 (56.15%) Finance
2 46 (35.38%) Law
3 44 (33.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (24.62%) Marketing
5 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 23 (17.69%) Banking
7 10 (7.69%) Korean Language
8 9 (6.92%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Games
10 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.54%) Legal
12 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (29.23%) Data Scientist
2 24 (18.46%) Software Engineering Director
3 21 (16.15%) Software Engineer
4 20 (15.38%) Senior Data Scientist
5 19 (14.62%) Senior
6 17 (13.08%) Developer
7 12 (9.23%) Lead
8 10 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Lead Data Scientist
8 10 (7.69%) Project Manager
9 8 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Python Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Python Software Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Junior
11 6 (4.62%) Junior Data Scientist
12 5 (3.85%) Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Audit Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.85%) Data Engineer
13 4 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.15%) Pandas
2 30 (23.08%) PyTorch
3 27 (20.77%) TensorFlow
4 17 (13.08%) SpaCy
5 15 (11.54%) Keras
6 14 (10.77%) React
6 14 (10.77%) REST
6 14 (10.77%) scikit-learn
6 14 (10.77%) Spring
7 13 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.00%) JPA
7 13 (10.00%) NumPy
7 13 (10.00%) XGBoost
8 10 (7.69%) EDI
9 7 (5.38%) Flask
10 6 (4.62%) PySpark
11 5 (3.85%) Statsmodels
12 4 (3.08%) SciPy
13 3 (2.31%) MXNet
13 3 (2.31%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.38%) Algorithms
2 24 (18.46%) Cloud Native
3 21 (16.15%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.38%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (5.38%) Reinsurance
4 7 (5.38%) Robotics
5 4 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.77%) iPad
7 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.08%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
2 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (92.31%) Machine Learning
2 105 (80.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 83 (63.85%) Agile
4 57 (43.85%) Visualisation
5 56 (43.08%) Data Science
6 55 (42.31%) Software Engineering
7 46 (35.38%) Decision-Making
8 44 (33.85%) Computer Vision
9 35 (26.92%) Deep Learning
10 34 (26.15%) Mathematics
11 33 (25.38%) Computer Science
11 33 (25.38%) LLM
12 30 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
13 29 (22.31%) Analytics
14 28 (21.54%) Decision Tree
15 27 (20.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 26 (20.00%) Random Forest
17 25 (19.23%) CI/CD
17 25 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
17 25 (19.23%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 74 (56.92%) Python
2 41 (31.54%) SQL
3 18 (13.85%) Java
4 6 (4.62%) MATLAB
5 3 (2.31%) Bash
6 2 (1.54%) C
6 2 (1.54%) R
6 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.77%) Scala
7 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (25.38%) Degree
2 13 (10.00%) PhD
3 8 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) GDPR
2 7 (5.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Terraform
2 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (11.54%) Databricks
2 13 (10.00%) Oracle
3 10 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.92%) Google
4 9 (6.92%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.15%) Facebook
6 6 (4.62%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.85%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.77%) Splunk