Human-in-the-Loop Contract Job Trends in London

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Human-in-the-Loop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.047% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
England median daily rate £513 - £580
% change year-on-year - - -14.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Human-in-the-Loop 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 13,486 12,571 16,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.07% 90.51% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,936 7,985 11,699
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 158 330
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.81 £19.52
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +15.40% -19.12%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.11 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.13 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

Human-in-the-Loop
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Human-in-the-Loop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Human-in-the-Loop job vacancy trend in London

Human-in-the-Loop
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Human-in-the-Loop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Human-in-the-Loop

Human-in-the-Loop
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop in London over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Human-in-the-Loop in London

Human-in-the-Loop
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 Human-in-the-Loop within the London region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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 - 2 - - 5
Human-in-the-Loop
England

Human-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure App Service
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Functions
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Vision Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) ETL Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
1 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
1 2 (28.57%) Flask
1 2 (28.57%) Next.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SpaCy
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) LLM
2 4 (57.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Vision
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Video Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) OpenAI
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft