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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 280 275
Rank change year-on-year -74 -5 -15
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 279 245 330
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.92% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 2.65% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 168 215
10th Percentile £198 £402 £400
25th Percentile £385 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £775
90th Percentile £788 £850 £870
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £561
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.45% -5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 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% +144.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.85 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.00 £72.50
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 14,687 9,257 11,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.04% 34.70% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,125 5,903 7,342
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 784 441 819
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.90 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +41.81% -14.00% +31.07%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -63 153 £625 - 135
South East -52 42 £513 -2.38% 63
South West -11 38 - - 41
North of England -79 18 £415 -30.83% 42
East of England -42 14 £185 -66.36% 45
North West -52 11 £415 -26.22% 18
Midlands -56 8 £463 +63.14% 25
Yorkshire -36 7 £215 -64.12% 10
West Midlands -52 7 £463 - 9
East Midlands -16 1 - - 16
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 10 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.15%) Confluence
4 4 (1.43%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.58%) CPLEX
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) Simulink
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.36%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
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%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.13%) Azure
2 42 (15.05%) AWS
3 25 (8.96%) GCP
4 10 (3.58%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.87%) Dagster
5 8 (2.87%) GitHub
5 8 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.15%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (1.79%) Vertex AI
8 4 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.08%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.08%) dbt
9 3 (1.08%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.72%) Power Automate
10 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 17 (6.09%) MongoDB
2 14 (5.02%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.30%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.58%) Power BI
6 9 (3.23%) Big Data
7 7 (2.51%) KDB
8 6 (2.15%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.15%) Tableau
9 4 (1.43%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.43%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.08%) Redis
11 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.72%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.72%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.72%) Db2
11 2 (0.72%) Kdb+
11 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (11.11%) Git
2 15 (5.38%) GitLab
3 9 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.15%) MLflow
5 5 (1.79%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.72%) Gradle
6 2 (0.72%) JMeter
6 2 (0.72%) Maven
6 2 (0.72%) Postman
6 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.36%) JIRA
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%) webpack
General
1 55 (19.71%) Analytical Skills
2 54 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 41 (14.70%) Finance
4 35 (12.54%) Banking
5 20 (7.17%) Front Office
6 18 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.58%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.15%) Aerospace
8 6 (2.15%) Law
9 5 (1.79%) Aviation
10 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Electronics
10 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) Marketing
11 3 (1.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Advertising
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (25.81%) Developer
2 51 (18.28%) Software Engineer
3 43 (15.41%) Senior
4 33 (11.83%) Data Scientist
5 26 (9.32%) Algorithm Engineer
6 18 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 17 (6.09%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.02%) Architect
9 13 (4.66%) C++ Software Engineer
9 13 (4.66%) Consultant
10 12 (4.30%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.23%) Lead
11 9 (3.23%) Quantitative Developer
12 8 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.87%) SAP Consultant
12 8 (2.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.51%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.68%) Kafka
2 26 (9.32%) PyTorch
3 24 (8.60%) scikit-learn
3 24 (8.60%) TensorFlow
4 23 (8.24%) Pandas
5 21 (7.53%) FIX Protocol
6 20 (7.17%) NumPy
7 15 (5.38%) React
8 13 (4.66%) RESTful
9 12 (4.30%) JSON
10 11 (3.94%) Spring
10 11 (3.94%) Spring Boot
11 10 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.23%) Django
12 9 (3.23%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.23%) Flask
12 9 (3.23%) OpenAPI
12 9 (3.23%) REST
12 9 (3.23%) Swagger
13 8 (2.87%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.79%) Data Structures
2 31 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (5.38%) Derivative
5 13 (4.66%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.66%) Equities
6 12 (4.30%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.94%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.15%) Robotics
9 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.43%) PKI
9 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.08%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) OTC Derivatives
10 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.79%) 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 88 (31.54%) Machine Learning
2 83 (29.75%) Software Engineering
3 75 (26.88%) AI
4 63 (22.58%) Computer Science
5 58 (20.79%) CI/CD
6 54 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (18.64%) Analytics
7 52 (18.64%) Data Science
8 36 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (12.19%) Mathematics
10 32 (11.47%) Containerisation
10 32 (11.47%) Multithreading
11 31 (11.11%) Agile
11 31 (11.11%) Low Latency
12 29 (10.39%) Data Analysis
13 27 (9.68%) DevOps
13 27 (9.68%) LLM
14 26 (9.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (9.32%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (8.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 118 (42.29%) Python
2 60 (21.51%) Java
3 55 (19.71%) SQL
4 35 (12.54%) C#
5 29 (10.39%) C++
6 22 (7.89%) MATLAB
6 22 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.09%) Ada
8 15 (5.38%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.30%) Rust
10 11 (3.94%) R
11 9 (3.23%) JavaScript
12 7 (2.51%) C
12 7 (2.51%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.43%) Go
13 4 (1.43%) Scala
14 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.72%) Tcl
16 1 (0.36%) DAML
Qualifications
1 48 (17.20%) Degree
2 33 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.73%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.58%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.58%) PhD
7 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CISSP
8 2 (0.72%) HNC
8 2 (0.72%) HND
9 1 (0.36%) CCDP
9 1 (0.36%) CCIE
9 1 (0.36%) CCIE Security
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) GIAC
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.94%) 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 23 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.51%) Ansible
3 4 (1.43%) Grafana
4 3 (1.08%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.08%) Terraform
5 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.36%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) logstash
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.66%) Databricks
3 10 (3.58%) IBM
3 10 (3.58%) SAP
4 8 (2.87%) Google
5 7 (2.51%) MathWorks
5 7 (2.51%) Solace
6 6 (2.15%) IFS
6 6 (2.15%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.43%) F5
7 4 (1.43%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.08%) Charles River
8 3 (1.08%) Splunk
9 2 (0.72%) Actel
9 2 (0.72%) Altera
9 2 (0.72%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.72%) Intel
9 2 (0.72%) Siemens