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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 92 97
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 30 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.06% 0.95% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.25% 3.64% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 11
10th Percentile £525 £325 £425
25th Percentile £575 £363 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -23.08% +18.04%
75th Percentile £675 £400 £527
90th Percentile - £505 £575
England median daily rate £650 £598 £600
% change year-on-year +8.79% -0.42% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 7
10th Percentile £56.10 £36.77 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £51.38 £21.00
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +150.00% -53.68%
75th Percentile £80.00 £57.50 £23.00
90th Percentile £88.00 - £36.80
England median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% +120.00% -45.05%

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 414 495 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 42.29% 26.19% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 236 405
10th Percentile £225 £176 £204
25th Percentile £402 £295 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £470 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.31% -3.59% -1.12%
75th Percentile £613 £560 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 126 46
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.18 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.23 £18.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £59.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.28% +99.56%
75th Percentile £82.31 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.69%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +47 23 £650 +73.33% 15
Bedfordshire - 6 £525 - 6
Cambridgeshire +4 1 - - 64
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 (46.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (30.00%) Simulink
2 1 (3.33%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (6.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Ethernet
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (6.67%) X.509
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Tableau
2 14 (46.67%) Big Data
2 14 (46.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Rational Statemate
2 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 12 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Electronics
2 4 (13.33%) Games
2 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Data Science Developer
3 9 (30.00%) Senior
3 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Firmware Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) FPGA Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Gen AI Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Control Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) Matplotlib
1 16 (53.33%) NumPy
1 16 (53.33%) Pandas
1 16 (53.33%) PyTorch
1 16 (53.33%) scikit-learn
1 16 (53.33%) Seaborn
1 16 (53.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) FPGA
1 4 (13.33%) PCIe
1 4 (13.33%) Verilog
2 2 (6.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 23 (76.67%) Machine Learning
2 19 (63.33%) Data Science
2 19 (63.33%) Generative AI
2 19 (63.33%) LLM
3 18 (60.00%) Data Analysis
4 17 (56.67%) Reinforcement Learning
5 16 (53.33%) Computer Science
5 16 (53.33%) Data Munging
5 16 (53.33%) Visualisation
6 15 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
7 14 (46.67%) Analytics
7 14 (46.67%) Data Analytics
7 14 (46.67%) Decision-Making
7 14 (46.67%) Predictive Analytics
7 14 (46.67%) Statistical Modelling
7 14 (46.67%) Time Series Forecasting
8 4 (13.33%) Digital Signal Processing
8 4 (13.33%) Physics
8 4 (13.33%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Python
1 16 (53.33%) R
2 9 (30.00%) MATLAB
3 4 (13.33%) SystemVerilog
3 4 (13.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Degree
2 12 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 12 (40.00%) PhD
3 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) HNC
4 4 (13.33%) HND
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (63.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) DO-254
3 2 (6.67%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (6.67%) NIST 800
3 2 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Firmware
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Actel
1 4 (13.33%) Altera
1 4 (13.33%) Intel
1 4 (13.33%) Microsemi
1 4 (13.33%) Xilinx
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) OpenAI