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

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Human-in-the-Loop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,404 13,603 17,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.94% 85.55% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,397 7,819 11,583
10th Percentile £215 £243 £250
25th Percentile £369 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,732 872 1,262
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.54 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% -25.84% +37.15%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%

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

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

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

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

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

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

Human-in-the-Loop
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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
South East - 1 £425 - 4
Human-in-the-Loop
UK

Human-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) E-Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2