Hybrid/Remote Human-in-the-Loop Contract Job Trends

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 319 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.019% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £463 - £580
% change year-on-year - - -14.07%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,507 9,738 14,664
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.99% 89.82% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 6,160 9,891
10th Percentile £331 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 193 481
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.31 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.51 £22.50 £23.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Human-in-the-Loop and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Human-in-the-Loop job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Human-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Vision Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) ETL Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Video Processing