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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 264 269
Rank change year-on-year -95 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 284 256 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.95% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 2.74% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 171 217
10th Percentile £198 £402 £400
25th Percentile £400 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -0.42%
75th Percentile £700 £723 £775
90th Percentile £853 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £564
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 28 48
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.37 £41.25
25th Percentile - £35.63 £52.50
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 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.26% +20.91% +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 14,813 9,351 11,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.13% 34.66% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,201 5,957 7,394
10th Percentile £313 £305 £284
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 £522 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.62% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 450 818
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.88 £15.45
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +19.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.81% -13.94% +30.99%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -62 158 £625 - 180
South East -45 42 £513 -2.38% 58
South West -10 38 - - 84
North of England -79 18 £415 -30.83% 52
East of England -47 14 £185 -66.36% 46
North West -45 11 £415 -26.22% 23
Midlands -57 8 £463 +63.14% 22
Yorkshire -45 7 £215 -64.12% 14
West Midlands -58 7 £463 - 9
East Midlands -16 1 - - 13
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 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.46%) Confluence
4 4 (1.41%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.52%) CPLEX
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.70%) Simulink
5 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.35%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 9 (3.17%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.46%) ProductWriter
3 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.06%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.70%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 1 (0.35%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.20%) Azure
2 42 (14.79%) AWS
3 25 (8.80%) GCP
4 10 (3.52%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.82%) Dagster
6 8 (2.82%) GitHub
6 8 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (1.76%) Vertex AI
9 4 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.06%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.06%) dbt
10 3 (1.06%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.70%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) HTTP
2 6 (2.11%) Multicast
3 4 (1.41%) BIG-IP
3 4 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (1.41%) Firewall
3 4 (1.41%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.41%) Network Security
3 4 (1.41%) SSL
4 3 (1.06%) DNS
4 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.35%) IPsec
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.35%) VPN
6 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.99%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.58%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.52%) Power BI
6 9 (3.17%) Big Data
7 7 (2.46%) KDB
8 6 (2.11%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.11%) Tableau
9 4 (1.41%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.41%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.06%) Redis
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.70%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.70%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.70%) Db2
11 2 (0.70%) Kdb+
11 2 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (11.27%) Git
2 15 (5.28%) GitLab
3 9 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.11%) MLflow
5 5 (1.76%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.70%) Gradle
6 2 (0.70%) JIRA
6 2 (0.70%) JMeter
6 2 (0.70%) Maven
6 2 (0.70%) Postman
6 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.35%) Ant
7 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.35%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.35%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 56 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
1 56 (19.72%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.85%) Finance
3 36 (12.68%) Banking
4 20 (7.04%) Front Office
5 18 (6.34%) Investment Banking
6 10 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.11%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.11%) Law
8 5 (1.76%) Aviation
8 5 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Electronics
9 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Advertising
11 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (26.06%) Developer
2 51 (17.96%) Software Engineer
3 46 (16.20%) Senior
4 33 (11.62%) Data Scientist
5 26 (9.15%) Algorithm Engineer
6 18 (6.34%) Java Developer
6 18 (6.34%) Python Developer
7 14 (4.93%) Architect
8 13 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
8 13 (4.58%) Consultant
8 13 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.52%) Lead
9 10 (3.52%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (2.82%) Data Engineer
10 8 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (2.82%) SAP Consultant
10 8 (2.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (2.46%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.86%) Kafka
2 26 (9.15%) PyTorch
3 24 (8.45%) scikit-learn
3 24 (8.45%) TensorFlow
4 23 (8.10%) Pandas
5 21 (7.39%) FIX Protocol
6 20 (7.04%) NumPy
7 16 (5.63%) React
8 13 (4.58%) JSON
8 13 (4.58%) RESTful
9 12 (4.23%) Spring
9 12 (4.23%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.17%) Django
11 9 (3.17%) FastAPI
11 9 (3.17%) Flask
11 9 (3.17%) OpenAPI
11 9 (3.17%) REST
11 9 (3.17%) Swagger
12 8 (2.82%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 61 (21.48%) Data Structures
2 34 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (5.63%) Derivative
5 13 (4.58%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.58%) Equities
5 13 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.87%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.11%) Robotics
8 4 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.41%) PKI
8 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.06%) Exotic Derivative
9 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.76%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Solaris
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (30.99%) Machine Learning
2 86 (30.28%) Software Engineering
3 78 (27.46%) AI
4 66 (23.24%) Computer Science
5 61 (21.48%) CI/CD
6 54 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (18.31%) Analytics
7 52 (18.31%) Data Science
8 36 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
9 35 (12.32%) Containerisation
9 35 (12.32%) Mathematics
9 35 (12.32%) Multithreading
10 34 (11.97%) Low Latency
11 32 (11.27%) Agile
12 29 (10.21%) Data Analysis
13 28 (9.86%) DevOps
14 27 (9.51%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (9.51%) LLM
14 27 (9.51%) Microservices
14 27 (9.51%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (41.90%) Python
2 63 (22.18%) Java
3 56 (19.72%) SQL
4 35 (12.32%) C#
5 29 (10.21%) C++
6 23 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.75%) MATLAB
8 17 (5.99%) Ada
9 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.23%) Rust
11 11 (3.87%) R
12 9 (3.17%) JavaScript
13 7 (2.46%) C
13 7 (2.46%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.41%) Go
14 4 (1.41%) Scala
15 3 (1.06%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.70%) SystemVerilog
16 2 (0.70%) Tcl
17 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (16.90%) Degree
2 33 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.63%) Master's Degree
3 16 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.52%) DBS Check
6 10 (3.52%) PhD
7 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) HNC
8 2 (0.70%) HND
9 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) CCDP
9 1 (0.35%) CCIE
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) CISM
9 1 (0.35%) GIAC
9 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 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.70%) DO-254
5 2 (0.70%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) RMADS
System Software
1 36 (12.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.06%) Firmware
3 2 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (8.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.46%) Ansible
3 4 (1.41%) Grafana
4 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.06%) Terraform
5 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.35%) Istio
5 1 (0.35%) Kibana
5 1 (0.35%) logstash
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (4.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.58%) Databricks
3 11 (3.87%) IBM
4 10 (3.52%) SAP
5 9 (3.17%) Solace
6 8 (2.82%) Google
7 7 (2.46%) MathWorks
8 6 (2.11%) IFS
8 6 (2.11%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.41%) F5
9 4 (1.41%) Oracle
10 3 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.06%) Charles River
10 3 (1.06%) Duck Creek
10 3 (1.06%) Guidewire
10 3 (1.06%) Splunk
11 2 (0.70%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.70%) Microsemi
11 2 (0.70%) Siemens