Algorithms Contracts in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 275 398
Rank change year-on-year -14 +123 -59
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 107 178 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.76% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 2.34% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 111 56
10th Percentile £359 £400 £380
25th Percentile £400 £475 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £534
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +2.01% +12.37%
75th Percentile £610 £688 £634
90th Percentile £656 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £590 £625 £674
% change year-on-year -5.60% -7.24% +22.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 19 15
10th Percentile £42.75 - £19.66
25th Percentile £52.50 £19.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -51.11% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £58.80 £54.96
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.11% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
North of England +27 25 £475 -11.17% 35
Midlands +47 19 £550 - 41
West Midlands +34 18 £550 -2.22% 38
South West +5 18 £450 -10.00% 28
East of England +2 18 £375 -23.08% 51
South East -14 16 £600 +4.35% 85
North West +10 14 £525 +0.48% 24
Yorkshire +23 11 £400 -30.43% 11
Scotland +17 11 £425 -43.33% 21
East Midlands +24 1 - - 3
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
Applications
1 25 (23.36%) Simulink
2 21 (19.63%) Stateflow
3 5 (4.67%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.41%) AWS
2 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
2 4 (3.74%) Azure
2 4 (3.74%) npm
2 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.74%) Yarn
3 3 (2.80%) GCP
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) Wireless
2 3 (2.80%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.80%) Internet
2 3 (2.80%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.74%) Power BI
2 4 (3.74%) Redis
3 3 (2.80%) Big Data
4 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.93%) Flink
5 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (15.89%) Git
2 9 (8.41%) Subversion
3 6 (5.61%) JIRA
4 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.74%) Jasmine
5 4 (3.74%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (3.74%) Mocha
5 4 (3.74%) webpack
6 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.80%) JUnit
6 3 (2.80%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.80%) XCUITest
7 2 (1.87%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) Ant
8 1 (0.93%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.93%) CMake
8 1 (0.93%) Gradle
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) Mockito
8 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.36%) Automotive
3 13 (12.15%) Legal
4 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.54%) Finance
5 6 (5.61%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.67%) Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Electronics
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Military
9 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Police
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (26.17%) Developer
2 24 (22.43%) Software Engineer
3 12 (11.21%) Senior
4 11 (10.28%) Systems Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.41%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (8.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.67%) Control Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) FPGA Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Automation Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Computer Vision Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Java Scala Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Linux Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Linux Scripter
10 4 (3.74%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) Spring
2 7 (6.54%) Kafka
2 7 (6.54%) OpenGL
2 7 (6.54%) React
2 7 (6.54%) TensorFlow
3 5 (4.67%) RESTful
4 4 (3.74%) .NET
4 4 (3.74%) .NET Framework
4 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.74%) DirectX
4 4 (3.74%) OpenGL ES
4 4 (3.74%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.74%) Vulkan
5 3 (2.80%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.80%) Blazor
5 3 (2.80%) Web Services
5 3 (2.80%) WebRTC
6 2 (1.87%) Node.js
6 2 (1.87%) REST
6 2 (1.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.61%) VHDL
4 5 (4.67%) FPGA
4 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.74%) Clustering
5 4 (3.74%) CUDA
5 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.74%) Device Driver
5 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.87%) Animation
7 2 (1.87%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.87%) Derivative
7 2 (1.87%) Mixed Reality
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.87%) Photography
8 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.93%) GNSS
8 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.08%) Linux
2 10 (9.35%) Unix
3 9 (8.41%) Android
4 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.32%) Software Engineering
2 38 (35.51%) Computer Science
3 28 (26.17%) Validation
4 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.56%) Test Automation
6 21 (19.63%) Machine Learning
6 21 (19.63%) Verification and Validation
7 20 (18.69%) Agile
7 20 (18.69%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 17 (15.89%) Software Architecture
9 15 (14.02%) OO
9 15 (14.02%) Project Management
10 14 (13.08%) Data Science
11 13 (12.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (12.15%) Mathematics
12 12 (11.21%) Design Patterns
12 12 (11.21%) Signal Processing
13 11 (10.28%) Data Modelling
14 10 (9.35%) Scrum
15 7 (6.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.64%) MATLAB
2 35 (32.71%) Python
3 25 (23.36%) C++
4 24 (22.43%) Java
5 18 (16.82%) C
6 17 (15.89%) JavaScript
7 12 (11.21%) C#
8 10 (9.35%) SQL
9 9 (8.41%) Embedded C++
10 8 (7.48%) Scala
11 6 (5.61%) Embedded C
11 6 (5.61%) Kotlin
11 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
12 5 (4.67%) R
12 5 (4.67%) Shell Script
13 4 (3.74%) Assembly Language
13 4 (3.74%) Perl
14 2 (1.87%) GLSL
14 2 (1.87%) HLSL
15 1 (0.93%) XAML
Qualifications
1 41 (38.32%) Degree
2 16 (14.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (14.02%) Master's Degree
4 12 (11.21%) Security Cleared
5 10 (9.35%) PhD
6 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) ISO 26262
2 5 (4.67%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (4.67%) MISRA
2 5 (4.67%) MISRA C
2 5 (4.67%) QA
3 4 (3.74%) JTAG
4 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (7.48%) Firmware
2 5 (4.67%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.87%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.93%) Grafana
3 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.93%) Terraform
3 1 (0.93%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (4.67%) NVIDIA
2 4 (3.74%) Xilinx
3 3 (2.80%) MathWorks
4 2 (1.87%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Ariba
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) SAP