Algorithms Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 109 144
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 +23
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 31 24 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 0.98% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% 3.20% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 13
10th Percentile £450 £484 £417
25th Percentile £510 £548 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £678 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.13% +29.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £763 £742 £606
90th Percentile £913 £914 £828
London median daily rate £650 £650 £700
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% -26.67% +81.82%

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 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in Central London

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 1 May 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 +6 22 £675 -0.37% 13
West End of London - 6 £450 - 2
Camden - 5 £450 - 2
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
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 6 (19.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.23%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) GCP
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud9 IDE
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) S/MIME
1 6 (19.35%) SSL
2 3 (9.68%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Apache Hive
1 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.45%) Data Mining
2 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) KDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) JUnit
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Front Office
5 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Police
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.23%) Advertising
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Lead
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Data Scientist
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) C++ Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Security Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (6.45%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.23%) Data Science Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) TensorFlow
2 5 (16.13%) PySpark
3 4 (12.90%) Pandas
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (9.68%) scikit-learn
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.45%) CSS
5 2 (6.45%) HTML
5 2 (6.45%) NumPy
5 2 (6.45%) SciPy
6 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.23%) Blazor
6 1 (3.23%) Next.js
6 1 (3.23%) Node.js
6 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.23%) pydantic
6 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.23%) React
6 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) PKI
2 4 (12.90%) TWAP
2 4 (12.90%) VWAP
3 3 (9.68%) Credit Risk
4 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.45%) Multi-touch
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (38.71%) Machine Learning
3 10 (32.26%) Computer Science
4 9 (29.03%) Data Science
5 8 (25.81%) Low Latency
6 7 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (19.35%) Analytics
7 6 (19.35%) Key Management
7 6 (19.35%) Migration
8 5 (16.13%) Agile
8 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
8 5 (16.13%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (16.13%) Statistics
9 4 (12.90%) Algorithmic Trading
9 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
9 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
9 4 (12.90%) Predictive Modelling
9 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (16.13%) C++
4 5 (16.13%) Java
5 4 (12.90%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) R
7 1 (3.23%) Go
7 1 (3.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 8 (25.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) CISM
4 3 (9.68%) CISSP
4 3 (9.68%) Master's Degree
4 3 (9.68%) PhD
4 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.68%) NIST
3 2 (6.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Ahrefs
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.23%) OutSystems
3 1 (3.23%) Screaming Frog