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Hire a Data Annotation Specialist.

Images, text and AI outputs, labelled and checked.

Also called: Data Labeling Assistant, AI Training Assistant, Human Data Annotator

From £5.50 an hour£5.50-25/hr

  • SaaS & tech
  • Healthcare
  • Logistics
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Data Annotation Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Draws bounding boxes, polygons, segmentation masks and keypointsImage, video & document labelling
  • Labels text for named entities, intent, sentiment, topics and relationsText & LLM evaluation
  • Collects data to specification with source recordsData collection & validation
  • Flags ambiguous items with a guideline referenceQuality & operationsDoing
In your tools
  • Roboflow
  • Google Sheets
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Airtable
  • Python for QA analysis
  • Jupyter

Pick the level. See the price.

£9.50an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Data Annotation Specialist£9.50/hr
At least 40% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns a labelling stream end to end: calibrates quickly on new guidelines and handles complex work.

  • Segmentation mask batches
  • Video tracking and event tags
  • RLHF rating batches with written rationales

1-3 years across at least two annotation types and two platforms.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Data Annotation Specialist

Tasks

  • Image, video & document labelling

    • Draws bounding boxes, polygons, segmentation masks and keypoints
    • Tracks objects across video frames using interpolation
    • Annotates documents

  • Text & LLM evaluation

    • Labels text for named entities, intent, sentiment, topics and relations
    • Rates LLM responses against rubrics
    • Completes pairwise preference ranking
    • Fact-checks model answers
    • Writes adversarial or red-team prompts to probe model weaknesses

  • Data collection & validation

    • Collects data to specification with source records
    • Validates and cleans datasets

  • Quality & operations

    • Flags ambiguous items with a guideline reference
    • Reviews peers' work in review or consensus queues
    • Hits throughput and quality targets per batch
    • Follows secure-work rules for sensitive data

Tested before you meet them

  1. Guideline comprehension testAll levels30 min
  2. Image annotation tool testAll levels60 min
  3. Text annotation sampleAll levels45 min
  4. LLM response rating (RLHF) exerciseAll levels60 min
  5. Sustained accuracy testIntern and Intermediate2 hrs
  6. QA review and guideline writingExpert and Specialist1.5 hrs
  7. AI workflow test: Failure-handling review60 min

One score on every profileSample shown

84%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Data Annotation Specialist is £5.50 an hour, Intermediate £9.50, Expert £14.50 and Specialist £25, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Image, video & document labelling, text & llm evaluation, data collection & validation and quality & operations, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Seven practical tests, marked by a senior, including guideline comprehension test, image annotation tool test and text annotation sample. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Data Annotation Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. This role's skills test includes an AI task, including spotting when the AI gets it wrong. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Data Annotation Specialist owns a labelling stream end to end: calibrates quickly on new guidelines and handles complex work. An Expert Data Annotation Specialist owns the quality of a project: writes and updates guidelines and gold sets. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Data Annotation Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as CVAT and Labelbox, before you meet them.

In week one: account on the client's annotation platform with the correct project role; guideline pack, edge-case log and gold examples read; and calibration batch of 50-100 items completed and reviewed against gold. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Data Labeling Assistant, AI Training Assistant and Human Data Annotator. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

Book a 15-minute demo on Microsoft Teams, any time, day or night. We show you the people, levels and prices that fit. No obligation.

Meet the people who fit your work.

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