Hybrid/Remote Transfer Learning Contract Job Trends

Transfer Learning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 319 398
Rank change year-on-year +18 +79 -
Contract jobs citing Transfer Learning 3 6 7
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.031% 0.048% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.055% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile - £681 -
25th Percentile £713 £725 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £775
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £725 £750 £750
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,934 10,940 16,988
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.95% 87.99% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,923 6,883 11,955
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £732 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 251 414
10th Percentile £13.63 £19.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £27.78 £26.25
Median hourly rate £35.95 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £85.00
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 for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Transfer Learning job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Transfer Learning
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Transfer Learning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Transfer Learning

Transfer Learning
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 3 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Logistic Regression
1 3 (100.00%) LSTM
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Random Forest
1 3 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting