Algorithms Contracts in the East of England

Algorithms
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the East of England. 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 54 94 101
Rank change year-on-year +40 +7 +33
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 28 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.99% 0.94% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.73% 3.52% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 9
10th Percentile £525 £331 -
25th Percentile £563 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £388 £488
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% -20.51% +18.04%
75th Percentile £675 £475 £535
90th Percentile - £538 £575
England median daily rate £625 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £49.13 £36.77 -
25th Percentile £63.38 £51.38 £21.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +150.00% -52.43%
75th Percentile £84.44 £57.50 £23.00
90th Percentile £88.00 - £36.80
England median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% +109.52% -41.67%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the East of England

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the East of England

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the East of England

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the East of England

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the East of England

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +44 21 £650 +73.33% 16
Bedfordshire - 5 £525 - 6
Cambridgeshire +4 2 £325 -35.00% 67
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 14 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Simulink
2 1 (3.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (3.57%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 14 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Ethernet
2 2 (7.14%) SSL
2 2 (7.14%) X.509
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) Tableau
2 14 (50.00%) Big Data
2 14 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) Rational Statemate
General
1 12 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.71%) Electronics
3 3 (10.71%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Automotive
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Developer
2 14 (50.00%) Data Science Developer
3 11 (39.29%) Senior
4 10 (35.71%) Senior Developer
5 7 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.14%) FPGA Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Control Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Firmware Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Lead
7 1 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior SEO Executive
7 1 (3.57%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Matplotlib
1 16 (57.14%) NumPy
1 16 (57.14%) Pandas
1 16 (57.14%) PyTorch
1 16 (57.14%) scikit-learn
1 16 (57.14%) Seaborn
1 16 (57.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) FPGA
1 3 (10.71%) PCIe
1 3 (10.71%) Verilog
2 2 (7.14%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (78.57%) Machine Learning
3 20 (71.43%) LLM
4 19 (67.86%) Data Science
4 19 (67.86%) Generative AI
5 17 (60.71%) Data Analysis
5 17 (60.71%) Reinforcement Learning
6 16 (57.14%) Data Munging
6 16 (57.14%) Visualisation
7 15 (53.57%) Analytics
7 15 (53.57%) Computer Science
7 15 (53.57%) Feature Engineering
8 14 (50.00%) Data Analytics
8 14 (50.00%) Decision-Making
8 14 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
8 14 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
8 14 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
9 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
10 3 (10.71%) Physics
10 3 (10.71%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
1 16 (57.14%) R
2 6 (21.43%) MATLAB
3 3 (10.71%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (10.71%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Degree
2 12 (42.86%) Master's Degree
2 12 (42.86%) PhD
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) HNC
4 3 (10.71%) HND
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (67.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) DO-254
3 2 (7.14%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 2 (7.14%) NIST 800
3 2 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Firmware
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Actel
1 3 (10.71%) Altera
1 3 (10.71%) Intel
1 3 (10.71%) Microsemi
1 3 (10.71%) Xilinx
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.57%) Screaming Frog