Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Algorithms
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 4 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.13% 1.14% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.36% 5.68% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile - £548 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £565 £488
Median % change year-on-year -42.48% +15.90% -
75th Percentile - £583 £494
90th Percentile - - £508
East of England median daily rate £525 £558 £488
% change year-on-year -5.83% +14.36% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.05 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £23.10 £47.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.37% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £24.15 £48.75 £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £69.75 £47.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +46.84% -17.39% +24.32%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 119 88 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.52% 20.14% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 44 80
10th Percentile £252 £192 £203
25th Percentile £379 £409 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £577 £528
90th Percentile £764 £638 £588
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £14.25 £25.30 £21.80
25th Percentile £19.75 £46.25 £29.94
Median hourly rate £30.05 £52.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% -10.64% +78.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +50.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Cambridgeshire

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Cambridge -2 2 - - 21
Peterborough +2 1 - - 2
Algorithms
East of England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
1 1 (25.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CANoe
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 2 (50.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Design
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 2 (50.00%) LLM
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Foundry
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft