True, but that's more an artifact of Accenture's hiring practices in the UK (concentrating on hiring from a handful of Russell Group Unis where Engineering doesn't have much of a reputation compared to humanities/social science. on a separate note, the only notable NLP/AI groups in the UK are at Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Imperial College, and most of them filter into SWE).

The equivalent roles in the US will end up hiring people with a background in Linguistics, Cognitive Science, or Library and Information Sciences. This is seen in Anthropic's job listing for example.