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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 104 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +26 +11
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 27 32 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.41% 1.36% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.65% 4.39% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 13
10th Percentile £400 £450 £375
25th Percentile £519 £552 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -12.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £788 £826 £838
90th Percentile £925 £963 £910
London median daily rate £583 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -6.80% -10.71% -3.78%

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 739 729 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.53% 31.07% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 467 640
10th Percentile £353 £359 £325
25th Percentile £441 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +3.40%
75th Percentile £688 £710 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £25.72 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.79 £26.20 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -45.54%
75th Percentile £36.00 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £70.21 £79.40 £65.60
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -23.77% +15.00% +14.29%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -2 27 £625 -11.35% 265
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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.70%) IBM Watson
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) KDB
2 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.81%) Kdb+
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) DB2
3 3 (11.11%) MemSQL
3 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) Power BI
3 3 (11.11%) Sybase IQ
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (7.41%) Spatial Data
4 2 (7.41%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) QUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 14 (51.85%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
3 10 (37.04%) Front Office
4 5 (18.52%) Banking
5 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.70%) Law
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Police
7 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Data Scientist
4 4 (14.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) KDB Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Gen AI Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) React Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) scikit-learn
2 6 (22.22%) Pandas
2 6 (22.22%) TensorFlow
3 4 (14.81%) PyTorch
4 3 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (11.11%) NumPy
5 1 (3.70%) Altair
5 1 (3.70%) CSS
5 1 (3.70%) Dask
5 1 (3.70%) Google JAX
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
5 1 (3.70%) JAX
5 1 (3.70%) LightGBM
5 1 (3.70%) Matplotlib
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) Swing
5 1 (3.70%) XML
5 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Data Structures
2 6 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (18.52%) Fixed Income
4 4 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (11.11%) Derivative
5 3 (11.11%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
6 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.70%) Equities
7 1 (3.70%) Hedge funds
7 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.70%) PKI
7 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Unix
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (37.04%) Analytics
2 10 (37.04%) Machine Learning
3 9 (33.33%) Data Science
3 9 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
5 7 (25.93%) Agile
5 7 (25.93%) AI
5 7 (25.93%) Low Latency
5 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) Risk Management
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
7 5 (18.52%) Deep Learning
7 5 (18.52%) Quantitative Finance
7 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
8 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
8 4 (14.81%) Kanban
8 4 (14.81%) Natural Language Processing
8 4 (14.81%) Software Delivery
8 4 (14.81%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 3 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) C
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) R
4 1 (3.70%) VBA
4 1 (3.70%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.41%) PhD
4 2 (7.41%) Postgraduate
4 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.70%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.70%) SANS
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) EMIR
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.70%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Cognos
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) IBM
2 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Sage