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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 269 252
Rank change year-on-year -100 -17 +39
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 282 258 300
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.94% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.83% 2.63% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 175 210
10th Percentile £193 £400 £375
25th Percentile £400 £469 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £701 £701 £775
90th Percentile £842 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 19
10th Percentile £64.13 £23.69 £46.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +26.36% +57.14%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £58.13
90th Percentile £88.75 £82.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.48% +27.62% +50.00%

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 15,374 9,819 10,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.70% 35.87% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,393 6,206 6,353
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -6.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 491 485
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -37.70% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -33.33% +4.65%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -57 169 £675 +12.50% 821
South East -61 38 £465 -7.00% 151
South West -21 25 - - 88
North of England -54 20 £381 -32.27% 76
East of England -39 18 £185 -64.08% 115
North West -40 14 £398 -28.45% 43
Midlands -53 8 £213 -59.52% 52
Yorkshire -41 6 £215 -64.12% 21
East Midlands -17 4 £180 -63.41% 24
West Midlands -55 4 £213 -61.36% 28
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 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.84%) Confluence
3 7 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Solana
Applications
1 9 (3.19%) CPLEX
2 6 (2.13%) Simulink
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.84%) SAP IBP
2 5 (1.77%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.71%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.35%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.02%) Azure
2 42 (14.89%) GCP
3 29 (10.28%) AWS
4 16 (5.67%) GitHub
5 7 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.48%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.77%) Google Gemini
8 4 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.06%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.06%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.06%) dbt
9 3 (1.06%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.06%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.06%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.90%) HTTP
2 6 (2.13%) Multicast
3 4 (1.42%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.42%) 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%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.35%) SAN
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.35%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.80%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.09%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.32%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.84%) KDB
7 7 (2.48%) Big Data
7 7 (2.48%) Power BI
8 6 (2.13%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.42%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.42%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.42%) Tableau
10 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.06%) Kdb+
10 3 (1.06%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.06%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.71%) Metadata
11 2 (0.71%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 31 (10.99%) Git
2 17 (6.03%) GitLab
3 12 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.48%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.06%) JIRA
5 3 (1.06%) MLflow
6 2 (0.71%) JMeter
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.35%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) QUnit
7 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (20.21%) Finance
2 50 (17.73%) Social Skills
3 45 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.70%) Banking
5 16 (5.67%) Investment Banking
6 14 (4.96%) Front Office
6 14 (4.96%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.19%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.13%) Automotive
11 5 (1.77%) Electronics
11 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.77%) Law
12 4 (1.42%) Advertising
12 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.42%) Publishing
13 3 (1.06%) Aviation
13 3 (1.06%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (24.82%) Developer
2 41 (14.54%) Senior
3 34 (12.06%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.28%) Data Scientist
5 17 (6.03%) Java Developer
5 17 (6.03%) Python Developer
6 14 (4.96%) Consultant
7 13 (4.61%) Architect
7 13 (4.61%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (4.61%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.61%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.26%) Algorithm Engineer
9 11 (3.90%) Lead
10 9 (3.19%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.19%) Quantitative Developer
10 9 (3.19%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.19%) Software Manager
11 8 (2.84%) SAP Consultant
11 8 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.87%) Kafka
2 20 (7.09%) React
3 19 (6.74%) JSON
4 17 (6.03%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (6.03%) Pandas
5 14 (4.96%) NumPy
6 13 (4.61%) PyTorch
7 12 (4.26%) RESTful
8 11 (3.90%) scikit-learn
9 9 (3.19%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.19%) FastAPI
9 9 (3.19%) LangChain
9 9 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.19%) Redux
9 9 (3.19%) Spring
9 9 (3.19%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.84%) Django
10 8 (2.84%) OpenAPI
10 8 (2.84%) PySpark
10 8 (2.84%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 73 (25.89%) Data Structures
2 42 (14.89%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (6.03%) Derivative
5 16 (5.67%) Cloud Native
6 15 (5.32%) AI Agents
7 13 (4.61%) Robotics
8 10 (3.55%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.84%) Equities
10 6 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.77%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.42%) Augmented Reality
12 4 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.42%) Exotic Derivative
12 4 (1.42%) IoT
12 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.42%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.42%) Virtual Reality
13 3 (1.06%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.77%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Unix
2 2 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.85%) AI
2 86 (30.50%) Machine Learning
3 84 (29.79%) Software Engineering
4 73 (25.89%) Computer Science
5 55 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (19.15%) CI/CD
7 49 (17.38%) Data Science
8 43 (15.25%) Analytics
9 42 (14.89%) Mathematics
10 39 (13.83%) Agile
11 33 (11.70%) Low Latency
12 32 (11.35%) Validation
13 30 (10.64%) Containerisation
13 30 (10.64%) Multithreading
14 29 (10.28%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (9.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 26 (9.22%) Performance Optimisation
16 25 (8.87%) Microservices
16 25 (8.87%) Observability
17 24 (8.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 121 (42.91%) Python
2 80 (28.37%) Java
3 52 (18.44%) SQL
4 39 (13.83%) C++
5 34 (12.06%) C#
6 29 (10.28%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.45%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.67%) PowerShell
9 15 (5.32%) MATLAB
10 12 (4.26%) Rust
11 10 (3.55%) R
12 7 (2.48%) C
13 6 (2.13%) Ada
14 5 (1.77%) Scala
15 4 (1.42%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.06%) Embedded C++
16 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.71%) Go
17 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 57 (20.21%) Degree
2 35 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.03%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.26%) DBS Check
7 11 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.90%) PhD
8 3 (1.06%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) CISM
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.35%) CEH
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) HNC
10 1 (0.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.13%) NIST
4 4 (1.42%) GDPR
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.42%) QA
5 3 (1.06%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.71%) MISRA
6 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.35%) Basel III
7 1 (0.35%) DO-254
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (9.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.19%) Ansible
3 4 (1.42%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.06%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 1 (0.35%) Grafana
6 1 (0.35%) Kibana
6 1 (0.35%) logstash
6 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.96%) Databricks
3 9 (3.19%) Google
3 9 (3.19%) SAP
4 8 (2.84%) Solace
5 7 (2.48%) IBM
5 7 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.77%) MathWorks
7 4 (1.42%) IFS
8 3 (1.06%) F5
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle
8 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.71%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.71%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.35%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.35%) Infor
10 1 (0.35%) Microsemi
10 1 (0.35%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.35%) Splunk
10 1 (0.35%) UiPath