Human-in-the-Loop Contract Job Trends in the South West

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Human-in-the-Loop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.028% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £517 - £580

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,900 1,678 2,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.67% 89.68% 83.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 1,001 1,705
10th Percentile £325 £220 £263
25th Percentile £418 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 194 377
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.25 £13.86
25th Percentile £32.50 £18.51 £30.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £27.34 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.31% -50.74% -14.62%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £74.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

Human-in-the-Loop
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Bristol - 1 £500 - 2
Human-in-the-Loop
England

Human-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft