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

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Human-in-the-Loop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Human-in-the-Loop 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.024% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £71,250 - £90,000

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,216 12,215 28,360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.23% 94.97% 91.82%
Number of salaries quoted 9,693 8,786 23,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,767
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,999 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Human-in-the-Loop
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Database Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) AI Transformation
1 3 (75.00%) LLM
1 3 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) AIOps
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Decision Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 2 (50.00%) Multi-Agent System
2 2 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 2 (50.00%) Product Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Discovery
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI