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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 263 274
Rank change year-on-year -96 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 284 262 305
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.96% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 2.75% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 170 206
10th Percentile £195 £400 £394
25th Percentile £384 £490 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £719 £775
90th Percentile £825 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 28 38
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.37 £41.03
25th Percentile - £41.81 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +144.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.00 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +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 14,917 9,520 10,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.24% 34.81% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,251 6,021 7,099
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 476 667
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -20.61% +5.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.59 £80.00 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +14.29%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -55 163 £650 +8.33% 211
South East -58 42 £500 -2.44% 61
South West -14 34 - - 33
North of England -68 18 £398 -33.67% 46
East of England -50 14 £193 -65.00% 48
North West -46 12 £415 -31.55% 22
Midlands -54 9 £400 -18.70% 21
West Midlands -57 7 £463 -26.00% 7
Yorkshire -45 6 £215 -64.12% 11
East Midlands -14 2 £180 -36.51% 14
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 10 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.06%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
5 1 (0.35%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.52%) CPLEX
2 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (3.17%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.46%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.70%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.70%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.35%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (17.25%) Azure
2 45 (15.85%) AWS
3 34 (11.97%) GCP
4 15 (5.28%) GitHub
5 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.46%) Dagster
6 7 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (2.46%) Google Gemini
6 7 (2.46%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (1.76%) Vertex AI
8 4 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.41%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.06%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.06%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) HTTP
2 6 (2.11%) Multicast
3 4 (1.41%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.41%) SSL
4 3 (1.06%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.06%) DNS
4 3 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.06%) Firewall
4 3 (1.06%) Network Security
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) Broadband
5 1 (0.35%) DMZ
5 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.34%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.99%) NoSQL
3 14 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.58%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.82%) Big Data
7 7 (2.46%) KDB
7 7 (2.46%) Power BI
8 5 (1.76%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.76%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.41%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.41%) Tableau
10 3 (1.06%) Redis
10 3 (1.06%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.70%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.70%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.70%) Db2
11 2 (0.70%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 33 (11.62%) Git
2 16 (5.63%) GitLab
3 10 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.11%) Claude Code
5 5 (1.76%) MLflow
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) JMeter
6 2 (0.70%) Postman
6 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Gradle
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 53 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (17.25%) Finance
4 33 (11.62%) Banking
5 17 (5.99%) Front Office
5 17 (5.99%) Investment Banking
6 13 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.17%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.11%) Law
10 5 (1.76%) Aviation
11 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Electronics
12 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.06%) Marketing
12 3 (1.06%) Military
12 3 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (26.06%) Developer
2 47 (16.55%) Senior
3 44 (15.49%) Software Engineer
4 38 (13.38%) Data Scientist
5 22 (7.75%) Algorithm Engineer
6 19 (6.69%) Python Developer
7 18 (6.34%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.58%) Architect
8 13 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
8 13 (4.58%) Consultant
8 13 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (3.52%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.52%) Lead
11 9 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Quantitative Developer
11 9 (3.17%) Senior Data Scientist
11 9 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.82%) SAP Consultant
12 8 (2.82%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.21%) Kafka
2 24 (8.45%) PyTorch
3 21 (7.39%) Pandas
3 21 (7.39%) React
3 21 (7.39%) TensorFlow
4 19 (6.69%) FIX Protocol
4 19 (6.69%) scikit-learn
5 18 (6.34%) JSON
5 18 (6.34%) NumPy
6 13 (4.58%) RESTful
6 13 (4.58%) Spring
7 12 (4.23%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.52%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.52%) LangChain
8 10 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.17%) Django
9 9 (3.17%) Flask
9 9 (3.17%) OpenAPI
9 9 (3.17%) REST
9 9 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.59%) Data Structures
2 35 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (5.99%) Cloud Native
5 15 (5.28%) AI Agents
5 15 (5.28%) Derivative
6 13 (4.58%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.87%) Equities
8 5 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.76%) Robotics
9 4 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.06%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.06%) OTC Derivatives
10 3 (1.06%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Linux
1 3 (1.06%) Windows
2 2 (0.70%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.45%) Machine Learning
2 84 (29.58%) AI
3 82 (28.87%) Software Engineering
4 70 (24.65%) Computer Science
5 67 (23.59%) CI/CD
6 55 (19.37%) Data Science
7 54 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (16.90%) Analytics
9 40 (14.08%) Mathematics
10 36 (12.68%) Containerisation
11 34 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (11.62%) Agile
12 33 (11.62%) Low Latency
12 33 (11.62%) Microservices
12 33 (11.62%) Multithreading
13 31 (10.92%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (10.21%) LLM
14 29 (10.21%) Observability
15 28 (9.86%) DevOps
16 26 (9.15%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (43.31%) Python
2 67 (23.59%) Java
3 55 (19.37%) SQL
4 34 (11.97%) C#
5 27 (9.51%) C++
6 23 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 17 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.28%) MATLAB
8 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.58%) Ada
10 12 (4.23%) Rust
11 11 (3.87%) R
12 7 (2.46%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.41%) C
13 4 (1.41%) Go
14 3 (1.06%) Scala
14 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.35%) Bash
15 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.35%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 51 (17.96%) Degree
2 34 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.93%) Master's Degree
5 14 (4.93%) PhD
6 11 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.87%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.35%) CEH
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CISSP
7 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) HNC
7 1 (0.35%) HND
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.87%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.46%) QA
4 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) DO-254
System Software
1 37 (13.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.82%) Ansible
3 4 (1.41%) Kubeflow
3 4 (1.41%) Terraform
4 3 (1.06%) Grafana
5 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (5.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.93%) Databricks
3 10 (3.52%) Google
3 10 (3.52%) OpenAI
3 10 (3.52%) SAP
4 9 (3.17%) Solace
5 8 (2.82%) IBM
6 6 (2.11%) IFS
7 5 (1.76%) MathWorks
8 3 (1.06%) Duck Creek
8 3 (1.06%) F5
8 3 (1.06%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle
8 3 (1.06%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.70%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.70%) Charles River
9 2 (0.70%) Siemens
10 1 (0.35%) Ariba
10 1 (0.35%) Hitachi