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 1 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 271 263
Rank change year-on-year -65 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 281 228 320
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 2.74% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 151 209
10th Percentile £194 £420 £398
25th Percentile £450 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.64% +1.51%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £775
90th Percentile £888 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 23 48
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.54 £41.25
25th Percentile - £26.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.40 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +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 13,517 8,311 11,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.32% 34.28% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 5,394 7,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £635 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 707 347 835
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.82 £15.32
Median hourly rate £42.30 £34.34 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +23.18% -3.67% +58.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £83.28 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +59.09%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -55 152 £650 - 238
South West +11 49 £500 -24.81% 49
South East -48 37 £550 +10.00% 78
East of England -41 17 £215 -66.92% 80
North of England -79 14 £215 -64.12% 53
Yorkshire -51 10 £215 -64.12% 16
Midlands -51 7 £463 +63.14% 27
West Midlands -50 6 £463 - 9
North West -57 4 £355 -36.89% 29
East Midlands -30 1 - - 18
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 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.14%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.14%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.07%) LaTeX
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.71%) Simulink
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.20%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.49%) ProductWriter
3 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.95%) AWS
2 37 (13.17%) Azure
3 21 (7.47%) GCP
4 10 (3.56%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 8 (2.85%) Dagster
6 6 (2.14%) GitHub
6 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.78%) Vertex AI
8 4 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.07%) dbt
9 3 (1.07%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.71%) Azure AI
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.71%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.56%) HTTP
2 6 (2.14%) Multicast
3 5 (1.78%) BIG-IP
3 5 (1.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (1.78%) Firewall
3 5 (1.78%) Network Security
3 5 (1.78%) SSL
4 3 (1.07%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.07%) S/MIME
4 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.07%) VPN
5 2 (0.71%) BGP
5 2 (0.71%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.71%) IPsec
5 2 (0.71%) LAN
5 2 (0.71%) MPLS
5 2 (0.71%) OSPF
5 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.56%) Power BI
3 8 (2.85%) Big Data
3 8 (2.85%) KDB
4 7 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.14%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.14%) Tableau
6 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.07%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.07%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.71%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.71%) TigerGraph
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (8.19%) Git
2 11 (3.91%) GitLab
3 5 (1.78%) MLflow
4 2 (0.71%) Gradle
4 2 (0.71%) JUnit
4 2 (0.71%) Maven
4 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) Ant
5 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) JIRA
5 1 (0.36%) JMeter
5 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.36%) Selenium
5 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 47 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (16.37%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.88%) Finance
4 32 (11.39%) Banking
5 23 (8.19%) Front Office
6 18 (6.41%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.85%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.85%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.14%) Aviation
9 5 (1.78%) Law
10 4 (1.42%) Electronics
10 4 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Advertising
12 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 73 (25.98%) Developer
2 61 (21.71%) Software Engineer
3 42 (14.95%) Senior
4 30 (10.68%) Algorithm Engineer
4 30 (10.68%) Data Scientist
5 21 (7.47%) Python Developer
6 18 (6.41%) Java Developer
7 16 (5.69%) Architect
8 15 (5.34%) C++ Software Engineer
9 13 (4.63%) C++ Developer
10 12 (4.27%) Consultant
10 12 (4.27%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.91%) Quantitative Developer
11 11 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Lead
13 8 (2.85%) SAP Consultant
13 8 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.49%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.49%) Senior Data Scientist
15 6 (2.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.19%) FIX Protocol
1 23 (8.19%) PyTorch
1 23 (8.19%) scikit-learn
2 21 (7.47%) TensorFlow
3 19 (6.76%) Pandas
4 16 (5.69%) NumPy
5 14 (4.98%) Kafka
5 14 (4.98%) React
6 10 (3.56%) Spring
6 10 (3.56%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.85%) REST
7 8 (2.85%) Seaborn
8 7 (2.49%) Matplotlib
8 7 (2.49%) WebSockets
9 6 (2.14%) FastAPI
9 6 (2.14%) Hugging Face
9 6 (2.14%) Ultra Messaging
10 5 (1.78%) LangChain
10 5 (1.78%) OpenAPI
10 5 (1.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 44 (15.66%) Data Structures
2 30 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (8.19%) Equities
4 20 (7.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (6.76%) Derivative
6 12 (4.27%) Robotics
7 10 (3.56%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.20%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.49%) PKI
10 6 (2.14%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.78%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.07%) FPGA
13 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.07%) Smartcard
14 2 (0.71%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.56%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Solaris
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.32%) Software Engineering
2 87 (30.96%) Machine Learning
3 65 (23.13%) AI
4 62 (22.06%) CI/CD
5 60 (21.35%) Computer Science
6 48 (17.08%) Data Science
7 46 (16.37%) Analytics
8 44 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (12.81%) Low Latency
9 36 (12.81%) Mathematics
10 35 (12.46%) Multithreading
11 30 (10.68%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (9.96%) Containerisation
13 25 (8.90%) Data Analysis
13 25 (8.90%) LLM
14 24 (8.54%) Electronic Trading
14 24 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (8.54%) Test Automation
14 24 (8.54%) Validation
15 23 (8.19%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.99%) Python
2 55 (19.57%) Java
3 43 (15.30%) SQL
4 39 (13.88%) C++
5 28 (9.96%) C#
6 27 (9.61%) MATLAB
7 21 (7.47%) Ada
8 18 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.20%) Rust
10 8 (2.85%) C
10 8 (2.85%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.85%) R
11 7 (2.49%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.14%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.07%) Scala
14 2 (0.71%) Bash
14 2 (0.71%) Go
14 2 (0.71%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.71%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (0.71%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 45 (16.01%) Degree
2 35 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.05%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.98%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.56%) PhD
7 7 (2.49%) DBS Check
8 6 (2.14%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.42%) CISSP
11 3 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.07%) CISM
11 3 (1.07%) GIAC
12 2 (0.71%) CCDP
12 2 (0.71%) CCIE
12 2 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.71%) CHECK Team Leader
12 2 (0.71%) HNC
12 2 (0.71%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.85%) QA
3 7 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.42%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) DO-254
5 2 (0.71%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.71%) NCSC
5 2 (0.71%) RMADS
5 2 (0.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (11.74%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.78%) Grafana
3 3 (1.07%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.07%) Terraform
4 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
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%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (4.63%) IBM
1 13 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.91%) Databricks
3 10 (3.56%) MathWorks
4 9 (3.20%) SAP
5 8 (2.85%) Google
6 7 (2.49%) Solace
7 6 (2.14%) IFS
8 5 (1.78%) F5
8 5 (1.78%) Oracle
9 4 (1.42%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.07%) Charles River
10 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.07%) Splunk
10 3 (1.07%) Thales
11 2 (0.71%) Microsemi
11 2 (0.71%) Netskope
11 2 (0.71%) Zscaler