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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 97 127
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 +10
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 26 28 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.51% 1.33% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.88% 4.33% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 13
10th Percentile £400 £520 £375
25th Percentile £519 £613 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £705 £800
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% -11.88% +28.00%
75th Percentile £788 £750 £838
90th Percentile £925 £923 £910
Central London median daily rate £625 £703 £800
% change year-on-year -11.03% -12.19% +28.00%

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 670 646 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.93% 30.63% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 402 558
10th Percentile £350 £360 £318
25th Percentile £441 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £688 £723 £725
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £579 £600
% change year-on-year -4.97% -3.54% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £16.90 £32.05 £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 £39.63 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £56.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.45% +55.56% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £76.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year +1.85% -14.96% -37.13%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend 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 6 November 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 & Capabilities in the City of 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 (11.54%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) KDB
2 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 4 (15.38%) Kdb+
2 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.54%) DB2
3 3 (11.54%) MemSQL
3 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Sybase IQ
4 2 (7.69%) Big Data
4 2 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Spatial Data
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) QUnit
3 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) MLflow
General
1 14 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Front Office
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Financial Institution
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Law
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Police
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Java Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Data Scientist
3 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) KDB Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Quantitative Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) scikit-learn
1 6 (23.08%) TensorFlow
2 5 (19.23%) Pandas
3 4 (15.38%) PyTorch
4 3 (11.54%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (7.69%) NumPy
6 1 (3.85%) Altair
6 1 (3.85%) CSS
6 1 (3.85%) Dask
6 1 (3.85%) HTML
6 1 (3.85%) JAX
6 1 (3.85%) LightGBM
6 1 (3.85%) PySpark
6 1 (3.85%) React
6 1 (3.85%) REST
6 1 (3.85%) Spring
6 1 (3.85%) Swing
6 1 (3.85%) XGBoost
6 1 (3.85%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 6 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (19.23%) Fixed Income
4 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (11.54%) Derivative
5 3 (11.54%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
6 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.85%) Credit Risk
7 1 (3.85%) Equities
7 1 (3.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (3.85%) PKI
7 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 4 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Analytics
2 9 (34.62%) Machine Learning
2 9 (34.62%) Mathematics
3 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 8 (30.77%) Data Science
4 7 (26.92%) Agile
4 7 (26.92%) Low Latency
4 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) AI
5 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
6 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 5 (19.23%) Quantitative Finance
7 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 4 (15.38%) Deep Learning
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) VBA
5 1 (3.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.69%) PhD
4 2 (7.69%) Postgraduate
4 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
5 1 (3.85%) GIAC
5 1 (3.85%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.85%) SANS
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) EMIR
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.85%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) ION Trading
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle