Transfer Learning Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Transfer Learning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Transfer Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 - 417
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Transfer Learning 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £750
75th Percentile £475 - £775
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Transfer Learning 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 14,274 14,473 18,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.23% 83.66% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,571 8,209 12,251
10th Percentile £225 £245 £255
25th Percentile £368 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,581 1,005 1,297
10th Percentile £14.13 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

Transfer Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Transfer Learning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Transfer Learning
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Transfer Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Transfer Learning

Transfer Learning
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 Transfer Learning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
North West - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
Transfer Learning
UK

Transfer Learning
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%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality