Algorithms Contracts in Berkshire

Algorithms
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 123 103
Rank change year-on-year +42 -20 +17
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 12 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.050% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.93% 0.17% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £383 - £357
25th Percentile £427 £359 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £438
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% -15.77% -2.78%
75th Percentile - £378 £556
90th Percentile - - £603
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +12.82%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 409 599 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 34.87% 30.19% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 334 393
10th Percentile £307 £205 £313
25th Percentile £424 £281 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £619
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 16
10th Percentile £26.40 £11.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £32.05 £22.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%
75th Percentile £87.28 £62.23 £74.25
90th Percentile £91.05 £67.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Berkshire

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in Berkshire

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Berkshire

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in Berkshire

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 11 £500 -
Reading +31 1 £358 -2.99% 10
Algorithms
South East

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Big Data
1 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) CMake
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) NumPy
1 2 (16.67%) Pandas
1 2 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 1 (8.33%) CNTK
2 1 (8.33%) OpenVINO
2 1 (8.33%) Prophet
2 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 8 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 8 (66.67%) Optimization Problems
2 8 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 7 (58.33%) Data Collection
4 6 (50.00%) Functional Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) Data Science
6 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 3 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
8 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (16.67%) Predictive Modelling
8 2 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
8 2 (16.67%) Time Series Analysis
8 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
1 6 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google