Algorithms Contract Job Trends in England

Algorithms
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 271 270
Rank change year-on-year -73 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 279 233 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.93% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 2.68% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 160 209
10th Percentile £197 £413 £398
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £565
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +10.62% -5.83%
75th Percentile £700 £744 £775
90th Percentile £843 £850 £851
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £557
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.82% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 23 48
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.14 £41.25
25th Percentile - £28.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.85 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.00 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +150.00%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,223 8,696 11,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.74% 34.72% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 5,588 7,289
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -1.04% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 399 846
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.15
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -8.42% +64.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.03 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.41 £36.00
% change year-on-year +31.13% -9.97% +60.11%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in England

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London -60 149 £625 - 116
South West +1 46 £500 -9.09% 38
South East -45 40 £513 -12.77% 58
North of England -79 18 £374 -37.62% 33
East of England -44 14 £185 -69.17% 39
Yorkshire -45 9 £215 -64.12% 8
North West -54 9 £395 -29.84% 15
Midlands -51 7 £463 +63.14% 23
West Midlands -51 6 £463 - 11
East Midlands -20 1 - - 12
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 11 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.79%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.58%) CPLEX
2 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) LaTeX
5 2 (0.72%) Simulink
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.23%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.51%) ProductWriter
3 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.05%) Azure
2 41 (14.70%) AWS
3 25 (8.96%) GCP
4 10 (3.58%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.87%) Dagster
5 8 (2.87%) GitHub
5 8 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.15%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (1.79%) Vertex AI
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.08%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.08%) dbt
10 3 (1.08%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.94%) HTTP
2 6 (2.15%) Multicast
3 4 (1.43%) BIG-IP
3 4 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (1.43%) Firewall
3 4 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.43%) Network Security
3 4 (1.43%) SSL
4 3 (1.08%) DNS
4 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) BGP
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) MPLS
6 1 (0.36%) OSPF
6 1 (0.36%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.02%) MongoDB
1 14 (5.02%) NoSQL
1 14 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.58%) Power BI
3 10 (3.58%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.23%) Big Data
5 7 (2.51%) KDB
6 6 (2.15%) Tableau
7 5 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.43%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.08%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.08%) Redis
10 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.72%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.72%) Kdb+
10 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.72%) TigerGraph
11 1 (0.36%) Metadata
11 1 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 29 (10.39%) Git
2 14 (5.02%) GitLab
3 7 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.15%) MLflow
5 4 (1.43%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.72%) Gradle
6 2 (0.72%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 54 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (17.92%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.34%) Finance
4 34 (12.19%) Banking
5 19 (6.81%) Front Office
6 18 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.87%) Law
7 8 (2.87%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.51%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.79%) Aviation
10 4 (1.43%) Electronics
10 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Advertising
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (26.16%) Developer
2 61 (21.86%) Software Engineer
3 45 (16.13%) Senior
4 31 (11.11%) Algorithm Engineer
4 31 (11.11%) Data Scientist
5 21 (7.53%) Python Developer
6 17 (6.09%) Java Developer
7 13 (4.66%) Architect
7 13 (4.66%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (4.66%) Consultant
7 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (3.23%) C++ Developer
9 9 (3.23%) Lead
9 9 (3.23%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (2.87%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (2.51%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.51%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.96%) PyTorch
2 24 (8.60%) scikit-learn
3 23 (8.24%) Kafka
3 23 (8.24%) Pandas
3 23 (8.24%) TensorFlow
4 21 (7.53%) FIX Protocol
5 20 (7.17%) NumPy
6 14 (5.02%) React
7 12 (4.30%) RESTful
8 10 (3.58%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (3.58%) Spring
8 10 (3.58%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.23%) Django
9 9 (3.23%) Flask
9 9 (3.23%) OpenAPI
9 9 (3.23%) Swagger
10 8 (2.87%) pytest
10 8 (2.87%) REST
10 8 (2.87%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.43%) Data Structures
2 33 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.09%) Equities
4 16 (5.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (5.38%) Derivative
6 14 (5.02%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.94%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.58%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.87%) Robotics
10 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.43%) PKI
11 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.08%) FPGA
12 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.51%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Solaris
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 83 (29.75%) Machine Learning
3 69 (24.73%) AI
4 62 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 61 (21.86%) Computer Science
6 53 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (17.92%) Data Science
8 47 (16.85%) Analytics
9 35 (12.54%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (12.19%) Mathematics
10 34 (12.19%) Multithreading
11 33 (11.83%) Containerisation
12 32 (11.47%) Low Latency
13 28 (10.04%) Data Analysis
14 25 (8.96%) Agile
14 25 (8.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (8.96%) LLM
14 25 (8.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (8.60%) DevOps
15 24 (8.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 121 (43.37%) Python
2 60 (21.51%) Java
3 50 (17.92%) SQL
4 36 (12.90%) C#
5 35 (12.54%) C++
6 27 (9.68%) MATLAB
7 22 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 21 (7.53%) Ada
9 13 (4.66%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.30%) Rust
11 10 (3.58%) R
12 9 (3.23%) JavaScript
13 8 (2.87%) C
14 7 (2.51%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.43%) Go
15 4 (1.43%) Scala
16 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
17 2 (0.72%) Tcl
18 1 (0.36%) DAML
Qualifications
1 46 (16.49%) Degree
2 32 (11.47%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.02%) Master's Degree
5 12 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.23%) PhD
8 8 (2.87%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.72%) CISSP
9 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) HNC
9 2 (0.72%) HND
9 2 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.36%) CCIE Security
10 1 (0.36%) CESG Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.36%) CISM
10 1 (0.36%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.51%) QA
4 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.72%) DO-254
5 2 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) RMADS
System Software
1 36 (12.90%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Firmware
3 2 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (7.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.43%) Ansible
3 3 (1.08%) Grafana
3 3 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.36%) Istio
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.30%) Databricks
2 12 (4.30%) IBM
3 10 (3.58%) MathWorks
3 10 (3.58%) SAP
4 7 (2.51%) Google
5 6 (2.15%) IFS
5 6 (2.15%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.15%) Solace
6 4 (1.43%) F5
6 4 (1.43%) Oracle
7 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.08%) Charles River
7 3 (1.08%) Splunk
8 2 (0.72%) Actel
8 2 (0.72%) Altera
8 2 (0.72%) Intel
8 2 (0.72%) Siemens
8 2 (0.72%) Xilinx