Algorithms Contract Job Trends 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 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 109 115
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 25 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.76% 0.19% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% 0.60% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 6
10th Percentile £409 - £400
25th Percentile £442 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £564
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.67%
75th Percentile £569 - £634
90th Percentile £788 - £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +26.67% -
75th Percentile - £29.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £72.00 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +44.00% +122.22% +13.01%

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 550 498 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 38.65% 31.13% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 246 343
10th Percentile £293 £300 £206
25th Percentile £409 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £619
90th Percentile £673 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £492 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% +2.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 18 25
10th Percentile £20.56 £18.68 £28.61
25th Percentile £20.79 £28.06 £45.21
Median hourly rate £58.00 £45.06 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -26.90% +39.31%
75th Percentile £86.00 £61.57 £66.44
90th Percentile £97.00 £64.48 £78.67
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +53.62%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Berkshire

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Algorithms

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 13 December 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 -9 12 £445 -
Reading +23 9 £550 - 2
Windsor - 2 £900 -
Algorithms
South East

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (16.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) CPLEX
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) 2G
1 2 (8.00%) 5G
1 2 (8.00%) LTE
1 2 (8.00%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (8.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Big Data
1 4 (16.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Tableau
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Data Scientist
2 5 (20.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) scikit-learn
2 8 (32.00%) Pandas
3 7 (28.00%) NumPy
4 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
4 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (12.00%) Google JAX
5 3 (12.00%) JAX
6 2 (8.00%) SciPy
7 1 (4.00%) .NET
7 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.00%) Faiss
7 1 (4.00%) Matplotlib
7 1 (4.00%) Plotly
7 1 (4.00%) REST
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (8.00%) IoT
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
1 15 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 14 (56.00%) Data Science
3 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (44.00%) LLM
5 10 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 9 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (32.00%) DevOps
8 7 (28.00%) Data Cleansing
9 6 (24.00%) Data Collection
9 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
9 6 (24.00%) Model Validation
9 6 (24.00%) Predictive Analysis
9 6 (24.00%) Predictive Modelling
9 6 (24.00%) Statistical Modelling
9 6 (24.00%) Time Series Analysis
9 6 (24.00%) Use Case
10 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 5 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) R
4 3 (12.00%) C
4 3 (12.00%) C++
4 3 (12.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) EU AI Act
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
1 3 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks