Algorithms Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Algorithms
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 96 137
Rank change year-on-year +4 +41 +4
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 29 33 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.65% 1.59% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.37% 5.28% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 15
10th Percentile £400 £531 £359
25th Percentile £541 £644 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £708 £800
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -11.56% +14.29%
75th Percentile £763 £822 £844
90th Percentile £918 £919 £940
Central London median daily rate £625 £710 £775
% change year-on-year -11.97% -8.39% +10.71%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 663 625 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.63% 30.06% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 384 642
10th Percentile £350 £361 £314
25th Percentile £455 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £694 £725 £738
90th Percentile £813 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £580 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -1.44% -1.92% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the City of London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the City of London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the City of London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (13.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) AWS
1 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Hadoop
2 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 4 (13.79%) Tableau
3 3 (10.34%) DB2
3 3 (10.34%) KDB
3 3 (10.34%) MemSQL
3 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Sybase IQ
4 2 (6.90%) Apache Hive
4 2 (6.90%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.90%) Spatial Data
5 1 (3.45%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) MLflow
3 1 (3.45%) QUnit
General
1 15 (51.72%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Financial Institution
4 5 (17.24%) Front Office
4 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 4 (13.79%) Police
5 4 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Data Scientist
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Scientist
6 2 (6.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Gen AI Specialist
7 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) KDB Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) TensorFlow
2 7 (24.14%) Pandas
2 7 (24.14%) scikit-learn
3 3 (10.34%) PySpark
4 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) NumPy
5 1 (3.45%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) Swing
5 1 (3.45%) XML
5 1 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Data Structures
2 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.34%) Credit Risk
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (10.34%) Fixed Income
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.45%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (51.72%) Machine Learning
3 11 (37.93%) Data Science
4 9 (31.03%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (27.59%) Computer Science
5 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.69%) Mathematics
6 6 (20.69%) Visualisation
7 5 (17.24%) Analytical Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Low Latency
7 5 (17.24%) Statistical Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) Multithreading
8 4 (13.79%) Predictive Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Regression Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
8 4 (13.79%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 8 (27.59%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) R
5 2 (6.90%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) C
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) VBA
6 1 (3.45%) VC++
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) CISM
3 3 (10.34%) CISSP
3 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.34%) PhD
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.45%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.45%) GIAC
5 1 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) EMIR
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) ION Trading
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.45%) OutSystems