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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 258 255
Rank change year-on-year -50 -3 +29
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 297 239 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.98% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% 2.87% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 157 213
10th Percentile £194 £413 £400
25th Percentile £374 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +6.38% -2.08%
75th Percentile £725 £716 £738
90th Percentile £914 £850 £905
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 18 52
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.72 £41.38
25th Percentile - £31.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +2.27% +109.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.93 £81.49 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +134.04%

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 13,037 8,342 11,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.46% 34.11% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,261 5,463 7,445
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 325 821
10th Percentile £16.07 £16.49 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.45 £83.76 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year +39.88% +13.04% +27.86%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -44 156 £625 -3.85% 113
South West -4 47 £500 -25.09% 30
South East -49 37 £550 +10.00% 92
East of England -36 23 £345 -46.92% 42
North of England -79 20 £358 -34.97% 27
Yorkshire -48 14 £600 - 7
North West -49 6 £210 -61.82% 12
West Midlands -55 6 £463 - 9
Midlands -63 6 £463 +560.71% 19
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 12 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.02%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.34%) Solana
Applications
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.35%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.35%) Simulink
4 3 (1.01%) LaTeX
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.69%) SAP IBP
2 5 (1.68%) ProductWriter
3 4 (1.35%) Bloomberg AIM
3 4 (1.35%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.34%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.16%) AWS
2 36 (12.12%) Azure
3 23 (7.74%) GCP
4 17 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.37%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (2.69%) Dagster
6 8 (2.69%) GitHub
7 7 (2.36%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.02%) Vertex AI
9 4 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.35%) Serverless
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.01%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.01%) dbt
10 3 (1.01%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.01%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.36%) HTTP
2 5 (1.68%) BIG-IP
2 5 (1.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (1.68%) Firewall
2 5 (1.68%) Network Security
2 5 (1.68%) SSL
3 4 (1.35%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.35%) S/MIME
3 4 (1.35%) VPN
4 3 (1.01%) DNS
4 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.01%) Multicast
4 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.67%) BGP
5 2 (0.67%) Internet
5 2 (0.67%) IPsec
5 2 (0.67%) LAN
5 2 (0.67%) MPLS
5 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.05%) Power BI
2 13 (4.38%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.70%) Tableau
4 9 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.69%) Big Data
5 8 (2.69%) KDB
6 6 (2.02%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.68%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.35%) Kdb+
9 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.01%) Weaviate
10 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.67%) MySQL
10 2 (0.67%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 21 (7.07%) Git
2 10 (3.37%) GitLab
3 6 (2.02%) MLflow
4 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.67%) Gradle
5 2 (0.67%) JUnit
5 2 (0.67%) Maven
5 2 (0.67%) PyCharm
5 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.34%) Ant
6 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.34%) Hardhat
6 1 (0.34%) JIRA
6 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
6 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 53 (17.85%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (14.48%) Finance
4 28 (9.43%) Banking
4 28 (9.43%) Front Office
5 12 (4.04%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.69%) Aerospace
6 8 (2.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.02%) Aviation
7 6 (2.02%) Electronics
8 5 (1.68%) Law
8 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Games
9 4 (1.35%) Retail
10 3 (1.01%) Legal
10 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Advertising
11 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (27.61%) Developer
2 60 (20.20%) Software Engineer
3 36 (12.12%) Senior
4 32 (10.77%) Data Scientist
5 29 (9.76%) Algorithm Engineer
6 26 (8.75%) Python Developer
7 19 (6.40%) Java Developer
8 16 (5.39%) Architect
8 16 (5.39%) C++ Developer
9 15 (5.05%) Quantitative Developer
10 13 (4.38%) Lead
11 12 (4.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (3.70%) C++ Software Engineer
13 10 (3.37%) Consultant
13 10 (3.37%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.03%) Robotics Engineer
15 8 (2.69%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 8 (2.69%) Linux Developer
15 8 (2.69%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 8 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.76%) scikit-learn
2 28 (9.43%) PyTorch
2 28 (9.43%) TensorFlow
3 22 (7.41%) FIX Protocol
4 21 (7.07%) Pandas
5 18 (6.06%) NumPy
6 14 (4.71%) Kafka
7 12 (4.04%) React
8 10 (3.37%) Seaborn
8 10 (3.37%) Spring
8 10 (3.37%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.03%) Matplotlib
9 9 (3.03%) REST
10 6 (2.02%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.02%) Hugging Face
10 6 (2.02%) LangChain
10 6 (2.02%) Middleware
10 6 (2.02%) XGBoost
11 5 (1.68%) Electron
11 5 (1.68%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.84%) Data Structures
2 26 (8.75%) Equities
3 25 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (6.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (6.06%) Robotics
6 17 (5.72%) Derivative
7 9 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.69%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (2.69%) PKI
9 7 (2.36%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.36%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.68%) FPGA
10 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.35%) PCIe
11 4 (1.35%) Smartcard
11 4 (1.35%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.38%) Linux
2 7 (2.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.34%) Solaris
3 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (35.02%) Machine Learning
2 82 (27.61%) Software Engineering
3 72 (24.24%) AI
4 68 (22.90%) Computer Science
5 60 (20.20%) CI/CD
6 53 (17.85%) Analytics
7 50 (16.84%) Data Science
8 48 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (13.13%) Mathematics
10 38 (12.79%) Agile
11 35 (11.78%) Low Latency
12 31 (10.44%) Multithreading
13 30 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (9.76%) Data Analysis
15 27 (9.09%) Containerisation
15 27 (9.09%) Test Automation
16 26 (8.75%) LLM
16 26 (8.75%) Natural Language Processing
17 25 (8.42%) Visualisation
18 24 (8.08%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.44%) Python
2 55 (18.52%) Java
3 45 (15.15%) SQL
4 37 (12.46%) C++
5 30 (10.10%) MATLAB
6 29 (9.76%) C#
7 21 (7.07%) Ada
8 17 (5.72%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.03%) R
10 8 (2.69%) C
11 7 (2.36%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.36%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.68%) Rust
13 4 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.35%) SystemVerilog
13 4 (1.35%) Tcl
14 3 (1.01%) Go
15 2 (0.67%) Bash
16 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (17.17%) Degree
2 35 (11.78%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.72%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.71%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.69%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (2.69%) PhD
7 6 (2.02%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.68%) CISSP
9 4 (1.35%) CISM
9 4 (1.35%) GIAC
9 4 (1.35%) HNC
9 4 (1.35%) HND
10 3 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.67%) CCDP
11 2 (0.67%) CCIE
11 2 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.67%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.04%) QA
2 8 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.68%) NIST
5 4 (1.35%) DO-254
6 3 (1.01%) SLA
7 2 (0.67%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.67%) NCSC
7 2 (0.67%) RMADS
8 1 (0.34%) GDPR
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (9.76%) Docker
2 5 (1.68%) Firmware
3 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.02%) Grafana
3 5 (1.68%) Terraform
4 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.34%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.34%) logstash
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (4.71%) IBM
1 14 (4.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.37%) Databricks
2 10 (3.37%) MathWorks
3 9 (3.03%) Google
4 8 (2.69%) SAP
5 7 (2.36%) Solace
6 5 (1.68%) F5
6 5 (1.68%) Oracle
7 4 (1.35%) Actel
7 4 (1.35%) Altera
7 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.35%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.35%) Charles River
7 4 (1.35%) Intel
7 4 (1.35%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.35%) Microsemi
7 4 (1.35%) Splunk
7 4 (1.35%) Thales
7 4 (1.35%) Xilinx