Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Algorithms
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 52 59
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 1 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% 1.74% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 4.97% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £494 -
25th Percentile £588 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £349
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +61.17% -38.23%
75th Percentile £613 £663 -
90th Percentile - £685 -
North West median daily rate £355 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -36.89% +4.65% +2.87%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 235 181 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.32% 35.08% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 143 98
10th Percentile £333 £314 £297
25th Percentile £400 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £567 £550 £568
90th Percentile £642 £635 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 16
10th Percentile £23.35 £33.82 £13.63
25th Percentile £34.49 £39.85 £17.35
Median hourly rate £36.70 £49.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +36.71% +7.38%
75th Percentile £111.15 £59.95 £43.75
90th Percentile - £65.98 -
North West median hourly rate £44.48 £38.05 £25.25
% change year-on-year +16.91% +50.67% -8.18%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Knutsford - 1 £600 - 2
Algorithms
North West

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS