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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 250 289
Rank change year-on-year -14 +39 +26
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 302 291 317
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.68% 2.96% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 203 215
10th Percentile £323 £376 £385
25th Percentile £413 £459 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £703 £725 £775
90th Percentile £1,050 £863 £845
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -6.09% -8.00% -12.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 16
10th Percentile £42.20 £38.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.75 £47.50 £40.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -8.70% +1.13%
75th Percentile £73.00 £75.00 £63.01
90th Percentile £78.85 - £66.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% -8.70% +1.13%

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 11,261 9,829 12,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.14% 32.02% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,092 5,904 8,289
10th Percentile £285 £295 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £744 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 309 457
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.87 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% -10.23% +25.71%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.89 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.06% -18.82% +21.43%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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
London -5 172 £600 -4.00% 73
East of England +6 40 £373 -37.92% 53
South East +10 34 £513 +2.50% 100
North of England -37 31 £550 +12.47% 43
Yorkshire -11 23 £675 +68.75% 14
West Midlands -18 17 £538 +34.38% 19
Midlands -25 17 £538 +34.38% 34
North West -35 7 £180 -63.23% 24
South West -30 4 £531 -20.41% 53
North East - 1 £400 - 5
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 18 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.31%) Apache
2 10 (3.31%) Jupyter
3 8 (2.65%) Apache Pig
4 4 (1.32%) Confluence
5 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.99%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (2.65%) Chatbot
1 8 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.32%) Simulink
3 2 (0.66%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.33%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) ProductWriter
2 2 (0.66%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.33%) Actimize
3 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 69 (22.85%) Azure
2 47 (15.56%) AWS
3 28 (9.27%) Power Platform
4 27 (8.94%) GCP
5 19 (6.29%) GitHub
6 13 (4.30%) Azure AKS
7 12 (3.97%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (3.97%) PaaS
7 12 (3.97%) Serverless
8 9 (2.98%) Azure Functions
8 9 (2.98%) npm
9 8 (2.65%) Amazon SageMaker
9 8 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.65%) Vertex AI
10 5 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.66%) Ethernet
2 4 (1.32%) Internet
3 3 (0.99%) SSL
4 2 (0.66%) 2G
4 2 (0.66%) 5G
4 2 (0.66%) LTE
4 2 (0.66%) Mobile Backhaul
4 2 (0.66%) SNMP
4 2 (0.66%) SSH
4 2 (0.66%) VoIP
4 2 (0.66%) Wireless
5 1 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.33%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.61%) Power BI
2 25 (8.28%) Hadoop
3 23 (7.62%) NoSQL
4 19 (6.29%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.63%) Big Data
5 17 (5.63%) Tableau
6 15 (4.97%) KDB
7 14 (4.64%) Kdb+
8 11 (3.64%) Data Mining
9 10 (3.31%) Apache Hive
9 10 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.32%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.99%) DB2
11 6 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.99%) MemSQL
11 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.99%) Sybase IQ
12 5 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.66%) MySQL
13 4 (1.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 28 (9.27%) Git
2 17 (5.63%) JIRA
3 12 (3.97%) GitLab
3 12 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 10 (3.31%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.66%) PyCharm
6 5 (1.66%) QUnit
7 3 (0.99%) Gradle
7 3 (0.99%) JUnit
7 3 (0.99%) LabVIEW
7 3 (0.99%) Maven
8 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.66%) Log4j
8 2 (0.66%) MLflow
8 2 (0.66%) Mockito
8 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.66%) Subversion
8 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 101 (33.44%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.53%) Finance
3 60 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (12.25%) Front Office
5 25 (8.28%) Banking
6 12 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.65%) Electronics
9 8 (2.65%) Retail
10 6 (1.99%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.99%) Games
10 6 (1.99%) Legal
10 6 (1.99%) Marketing
11 5 (1.66%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.32%) Publishing
13 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.66%) Law
14 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (34.44%) Developer
2 43 (14.24%) Data Scientist
3 31 (10.26%) Senior
4 22 (7.28%) Software Engineer
5 21 (6.95%) Python Developer
6 20 (6.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 20 (6.62%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.29%) Lead
8 18 (5.96%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) Quantitative Developer
9 16 (5.30%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.30%) C++ Developer
11 12 (3.97%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 10 (3.31%) Analyst
14 9 (2.98%) Architect
14 9 (2.98%) Consultant
15 8 (2.65%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 8 (2.65%) Linux Developer
15 8 (2.65%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.24%) TensorFlow
2 37 (12.25%) scikit-learn
3 36 (11.92%) PyTorch
4 33 (10.93%) Pandas
5 26 (8.61%) NumPy
6 23 (7.62%) .NET
7 19 (6.29%) FIX Protocol
7 19 (6.29%) React
8 17 (5.63%) RESTful
9 15 (4.97%) CSS
9 15 (4.97%) HTML
10 14 (4.64%) Node.js
11 13 (4.30%) Matplotlib
11 13 (4.30%) Semantic Kernel
12 12 (3.97%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.64%) .NET Framework
14 10 (3.31%) REST
15 9 (2.98%) Svelte
15 9 (2.98%) Vue
16 8 (2.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 75 (24.83%) Data Structures
2 24 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.62%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.62%) Fixed Income
3 20 (6.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (5.30%) Equities
5 15 (4.97%) Derivative
5 15 (4.97%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (3.31%) FPGA
8 7 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.32%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (2.32%) PKI
8 7 (2.32%) Robotics
9 6 (1.99%) Clustering
10 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.66%) PCIe
10 5 (1.66%) Verilog
10 5 (1.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.60%) Linux
2 13 (4.30%) Unix
3 2 (0.66%) Android
3 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.66%) Windows
3 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (48.01%) Machine Learning
2 93 (30.79%) Data Science
3 89 (29.47%) AI
4 86 (28.48%) Computer Science
5 83 (27.48%) Agile
6 81 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (19.54%) Analytics
8 55 (18.21%) Software Engineering
9 52 (17.22%) Visualisation
10 50 (16.56%) CI/CD
10 50 (16.56%) LLM
11 49 (16.23%) Mathematics
12 46 (15.23%) Data Pipeline
13 44 (14.57%) Decision-Making
14 38 (12.58%) DevOps
15 35 (11.59%) Data Engineering
15 35 (11.59%) Data Visualisation
15 35 (11.59%) Deep Learning
16 33 (10.93%) Data Modelling
17 32 (10.60%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 178 (58.94%) Python
2 66 (21.85%) SQL
3 57 (18.87%) Java
4 34 (11.26%) C++
5 27 (8.94%) C#
6 21 (6.95%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.29%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.30%) MATLAB
8 16 (5.30%) R
9 13 (4.30%) Scala
10 12 (3.97%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.32%) Bash
12 5 (1.66%) SystemVerilog
12 5 (1.66%) Tcl
13 4 (1.32%) C
13 4 (1.32%) Go
14 2 (0.66%) Rust
14 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.66%) VBA
14 2 (0.66%) VC++
Qualifications
1 70 (23.18%) Degree
2 35 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (7.62%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.28%) Master's Degree
6 13 (4.30%) MCP
7 12 (3.97%) PhD
8 7 (2.32%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.66%) HNC
9 5 (1.66%) HND
10 4 (1.32%) CISSP
10 4 (1.32%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.99%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.66%) CEH
12 2 (0.66%) CISM
12 2 (0.66%) GIAC
13 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.33%) ISSAP
13 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.97%) EU AI Act
1 15 (4.97%) NIST
2 14 (4.64%) QA
3 8 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.32%) GDPR
5 6 (1.99%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.66%) DO-254
6 5 (1.66%) FIPS 140-2
7 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.66%) EMIR
9 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.66%) PMO
9 2 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (6.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Firmware
3 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.64%) Terraform
3 4 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.32%) Kibana
3 4 (1.32%) logstash
4 2 (0.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.66%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.66%) rkt
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
5 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (11.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.64%) Splunk
3 13 (4.30%) Google
4 12 (3.97%) Foundry
5 10 (3.31%) Xilinx
6 8 (2.65%) Databricks
7 6 (1.99%) Intel
8 5 (1.66%) Actel
8 5 (1.66%) Altera
8 5 (1.66%) Microsemi
9 4 (1.32%) Solace
9 4 (1.32%) Thales
9 4 (1.32%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.99%) SAP
11 2 (0.66%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.66%) Cognos
11 2 (0.66%) IBM
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle
11 2 (0.66%) Sage
11 2 (0.66%) Temenos