Technology skill
NLP jobs
Natural language processing: getting machines to work with human language. Largely absorbed by large language models, but the fundamentals still hire. Below: the 4 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What NLP unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Data Scientist | 493 | salary |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 298 | salary |
| Conversation Designer | 9 | — |
| Prompt Engineer | 8 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as NLP.
- Deep Learningtogether in 131
- Pandas/NumPytogether in 32
- Machine Learningtogether in 372
- Node.jstogether in 79
- Airflowtogether in 57
- Statisticstogether in 84
Quick answers
What is NLP?
Natural language processing: getting machines to work with human language. Largely absorbed by large language models, but the fundamentals still hire. On our board NLP counts as a technology skill, and we pull it straight from the text of live postings every night, so the numbers on this page are what employers are asking for right now. Every skill, defined in plain language: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for NLP?
Quite a few. Right now 808 open roles on our board sit in the 4 occupations where NLP shows up in postings. The biggest of those is Data Scientist, with 493 open roles today.
What skills pair with NLP?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside NLP are Deep Learning (together in 131), Pandas/NumPy (together in 32), Machine Learning (together in 372).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.