Transfer Learning Contract Job Trends

Transfer Learning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Transfer Learning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 557 632
Rank change year-on-year 0 +75 +188
Contract jobs citing Transfer Learning 4 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.016% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.019% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £511 £681 -
25th Percentile £641 £725 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £750

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,046 32,386 42,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 86.01% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,699 19,514 28,726
10th Percentile £294 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,888 1,247 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.33 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.79% -8.14% +67.57%

Transfer Learning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Transfer Learning job vacancy trend in the UK

Transfer Learning
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Transfer Learning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Transfer Learning over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Transfer Learning in the UK

Transfer Learning
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +9 4 £725 -3.33% 6
Work from Home +29 3 £725 -3.33% 3
London +12 3 £725 -3.33% 5
North West - 1 £450 -
UK excluding London - 1 £450 - 3
North of England - 1 £450 -

Transfer Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Matplotlib
1 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (75.00%) XGBoost
2 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Logistic Regression
2 3 (75.00%) LSTM
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Random Forest
2 3 (75.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality