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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 96 139
Rank change year-on-year 0 +43 +4
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 31 34 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.59% 1.47% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.26% 4.73% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 16
10th Percentile £400 £535 £350
25th Percentile £547 £651 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £710 £775
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% -8.39% +10.71%
75th Percentile £826 £846 £841
90th Percentile £916 £940 £938
London median daily rate £575 £630 £700
% change year-on-year -8.73% -10.00% -6.04%

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 728 719 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.31% 30.99% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 457 722
10th Percentile £350 £353 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -2.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £731
90th Percentile £800 £838 £840
London median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £16.96
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £40.87
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £54.58
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £29.75
% change year-on-year -13.03% +6.29% -2.46%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 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
City of London +7 29 £619 -12.54% 41
Algorithms
London

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) AWS
1 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Multicast
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Hadoop
2 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Tableau
3 3 (9.68%) DB2
3 3 (9.68%) KDB
3 3 (9.68%) MemSQL
3 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.68%) Sybase IQ
4 2 (6.45%) Apache Hive
4 2 (6.45%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.45%) Spatial Data
5 1 (3.23%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) MLflow
3 1 (3.23%) QUnit
General
1 15 (48.39%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Financial Institution
4 5 (16.13%) Front Office
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Police
5 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Data Scientist
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
5 2 (6.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Data Scientist
5 2 (6.45%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.23%) Gen AI Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) TensorFlow
2 7 (22.58%) Pandas
2 7 (22.58%) scikit-learn
3 3 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (9.68%) PySpark
4 2 (6.45%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.45%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) jQuery
5 1 (3.23%) NumPy
5 1 (3.23%) SOAP
5 1 (3.23%) Swing
5 1 (3.23%) XML
5 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.68%) Credit Risk
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (9.68%) Fixed Income
3 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.45%) TWAP
4 2 (6.45%) VWAP
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) PKI
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (48.39%) Machine Learning
3 11 (35.48%) Data Science
4 9 (29.03%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
5 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
6 7 (22.58%) Low Latency
7 6 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (19.35%) Analytics
7 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
7 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
7 6 (19.35%) Visualisation
8 5 (16.13%) Analytical Modelling
8 5 (16.13%) Statistical Modelling
9 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (12.90%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (12.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (12.90%) Generative AI
9 4 (12.90%) Predictive Modelling
9 4 (12.90%) Regression Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (51.61%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) SQL
3 8 (25.81%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) C++
4 4 (12.90%) R
5 1 (3.23%) C
5 1 (3.23%) C#
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) VBA
5 1 (3.23%) VC++
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) CISM
3 3 (9.68%) CISSP
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.68%) PhD
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.23%) GIAC
5 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.68%) NIST
2 2 (6.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) EMIR
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.23%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) ION Trading
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) OutSystems