Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Central London

Algorithms
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 100 120
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 25 26 21
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.21% 1.22% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.28% 3.88% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 13
10th Percentile £427 £450 £353
25th Percentile £469 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £655
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.58% +17.75%
75th Percentile £932 £722 £703
90th Percentile £1,150 £903 £818
London median daily rate £650 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £44.75 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.76% -4.55% -26.67%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 762 670 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.90% 31.44% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 427 567
10th Percentile £350 £375 £281
25th Percentile £452 £472 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £695 £713
90th Percentile £788 £795 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 15
10th Percentile £19.27 - £14.45
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.40 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% +12.13% -43.21%
75th Percentile £29.50 £26.19 £32.63
90th Percentile £41.79 - £48.85
London median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £29.25
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.74% -16.43%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Central London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Central London over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
City of London -1 25 £700 - 29
Algorithms
London

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (4.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (12.00%) IBM Watson
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 6 (24.00%) Tableau
3 4 (16.00%) Big Data
3 4 (16.00%) KDB
3 4 (16.00%) Kdb+
3 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) DB2
4 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) MemSQL
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Spatial Data
4 1 (4.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) QUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 17 (68.00%) Finance
2 14 (56.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (40.00%) Front Office
3 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (32.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Data Scientist
3 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) KDB Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Electronics Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Pricing Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Qualitative Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Quantitative Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) React Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) scikit-learn
2 8 (32.00%) PyTorch
2 8 (32.00%) TensorFlow
3 5 (20.00%) NumPy
3 5 (20.00%) Pandas
4 4 (16.00%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (16.00%) Matplotlib
4 4 (16.00%) Seaborn
5 3 (12.00%) Dask
5 3 (12.00%) Google JAX
5 3 (12.00%) JAX
5 3 (12.00%) LightGBM
5 3 (12.00%) XGBoost
6 1 (4.00%) Altair
6 1 (4.00%) CSS
6 1 (4.00%) HTML
6 1 (4.00%) React
6 1 (4.00%) Swing
6 1 (4.00%) XML
6 1 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (20.00%) Derivative
3 4 (16.00%) Fixed Income
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (8.00%) Equities
6 1 (4.00%) Clustering
6 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Analytics
2 12 (48.00%) Machine Learning
3 11 (44.00%) Data Science
4 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
5 9 (36.00%) AI
6 8 (32.00%) Data Analysis
6 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
6 8 (32.00%) Deep Learning
6 8 (32.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
7 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (28.00%) Mathematics
7 7 (28.00%) Risk Management
8 6 (24.00%) Low Latency
8 6 (24.00%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (20.00%) MLOps
9 5 (20.00%) Quantitative Finance
10 4 (16.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) Java
4 3 (12.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) C++
6 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) VBA
6 1 (4.00%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Postgraduate
4 1 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Cognos
1 3 (12.00%) Google
1 3 (12.00%) IBM
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.00%) Sage
2 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (4.00%) Charles River
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk