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 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 406 - 397
Rank change year-on-year - - +80
Contract jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% - 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £90 - -
25th Percentile £144 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 - £580
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.07%
75th Percentile £342 - £595
90th Percentile £399 - -
UK median daily rate £463 - £580
% change year-on-year - - -14.07%

All Process & 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 16,291 12,122 17,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.53% 88.55% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,982 7,108 11,219
10th Percentile £230 £231 £250
25th Percentile £381 £380 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,743 667 1,631
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.06 £15.87
Median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% -15.67% +35.86%
75th Percentile £57.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.61% +10.63%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 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
South East - 1 £425 - 9
Scotland - 1 £54 - 2
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 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (50.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Animation
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Ergonomics
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Lua
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2