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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 270 268
Rank change year-on-year -120 -2 +29
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 257 274 294
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.99% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.73% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 194 208
10th Percentile £203 £361 £375
25th Percentile £409 £450 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £741
90th Percentile £850 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 13
10th Percentile - £22.60 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +32.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% +34.00% +42.86%

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 15,715 10,023 10,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 36.13% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,478 6,288 6,128
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £412 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 511 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.11 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.43 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +12.36%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -75 161 £675 +17.39% 771
South East -60 29 £465 -7.00% 146
East of England -38 22 £225 -56.31% 121
South West -22 20 - - 81
North of England -73 16 £398 -32.11% 83
North West -48 11 £415 -12.63% 53
Midlands -55 7 £196 -62.22% 61
Yorkshire -51 5 £215 -66.23% 19
East Midlands -13 4 £180 -63.41% 22
West Midlands -59 3 £306 -43.02% 39
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 9 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.11%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) CMS
4 4 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.17%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Simulink
2 6 (2.33%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) ProductWriter
1 5 (1.95%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.78%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.51%) Azure
2 40 (15.56%) GCP
3 27 (10.51%) AWS
4 17 (6.61%) GitHub
5 8 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.95%) Google Gemini
7 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.56%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.17%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.17%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.17%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (0.78%) Fivetran
10 2 (0.78%) OCI
10 2 (0.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.11%) HTTP
2 4 (1.56%) H.323
2 4 (1.56%) WebEx
3 3 (1.17%) Multicast
3 3 (1.17%) SSL
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.78%) VPN
4 2 (0.78%) X.509
5 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.39%) DMZ
5 1 (0.39%) DNS
5 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.39%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.39%) SAN
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.39%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.61%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.67%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.95%) Big Data
5 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.95%) KDB
5 5 (1.95%) Power BI
5 5 (1.95%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.56%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.17%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.17%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.17%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.78%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.78%) Metadata
8 2 (0.78%) Tableau
8 2 (0.78%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 33 (12.84%) Git
2 17 (6.61%) GitLab
3 12 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.72%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.17%) JIRA
6 2 (0.78%) QUnit
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) JMeter
7 1 (0.39%) MLflow
7 1 (0.39%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (22.57%) Finance
2 44 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.45%) Banking
5 12 (4.67%) Investment Banking
5 12 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.50%) Front Office
7 8 (3.11%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.33%) Automotive
9 6 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.56%) Law
11 4 (1.56%) Publishing
12 3 (1.17%) Electronics
12 3 (1.17%) Military
13 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (22.18%) Developer
2 42 (16.34%) Senior
3 28 (10.89%) Data Scientist
4 26 (10.12%) Software Engineer
5 15 (5.84%) Lead
6 13 (5.06%) Architect
6 13 (5.06%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.06%) Python Developer
7 12 (4.67%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (4.67%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.67%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Software Engineering Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Software Manager
9 9 (3.50%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Consultant
10 8 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (2.72%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.56%) Kafka
2 18 (7.00%) JSON
2 18 (7.00%) React
3 11 (4.28%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (4.28%) Pandas
3 11 (4.28%) PyTorch
4 10 (3.89%) RESTful
5 9 (3.50%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.50%) LangChain
5 9 (3.50%) NumPy
6 8 (3.11%) PySpark
6 8 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (3.11%) Redux
7 7 (2.72%) FastAPI
7 7 (2.72%) LangGraph
7 7 (2.72%) pytest
7 7 (2.72%) scikit-learn
7 7 (2.72%) TensorFlow
7 7 (2.72%) Vue
7 7 (2.72%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 67 (26.07%) Data Structures
2 37 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.00%) AI Agents
4 17 (6.61%) Cloud Native
5 15 (5.84%) Derivative
6 14 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (4.28%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.89%) Robotics
9 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.95%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.95%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.56%) Equities
11 4 (1.56%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (1.56%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (1.56%) PKI
11 4 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.17%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.72%) Linux
2 6 (2.33%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.63%) AI
2 81 (31.52%) Machine Learning
3 71 (27.63%) Software Engineering
4 62 (24.12%) Computer Science
5 52 (20.23%) CI/CD
6 50 (19.46%) Data Science
7 47 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (16.34%) Analytics
9 38 (14.79%) Validation
10 36 (14.01%) Mathematics
11 33 (12.84%) Agile
12 28 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (10.12%) Low Latency
14 25 (9.73%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.73%) Observability
15 24 (9.34%) DevOps
15 24 (9.34%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (8.95%) Data Analysis
16 23 (8.95%) LLM
16 23 (8.95%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 108 (42.02%) Python
2 71 (27.63%) Java
3 49 (19.07%) SQL
4 40 (15.56%) C++
5 30 (11.67%) C#
6 29 (11.28%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.39%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.23%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.45%) MATLAB
10 13 (5.06%) Rust
11 9 (3.50%) C
12 8 (3.11%) R
13 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.95%) Scala
15 3 (1.17%) Ada
15 3 (1.17%) Embedded C++
15 3 (1.17%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.17%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.78%) Go
17 1 (0.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (20.62%) Degree
2 39 (15.18%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.28%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.00%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.45%) PhD
6 9 (3.50%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.56%) CCNP
9 4 (1.56%) CCNP Voice
10 3 (1.17%) CISSP
11 2 (0.78%) CISM
11 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.33%) NIST
3 5 (1.95%) Basel III
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.56%) QA
5 3 (1.17%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.78%) MISRA
6 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) DO-254
7 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.95%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.50%) Ansible
3 4 (1.56%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.17%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.17%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.78%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Grafana
6 1 (0.39%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) logstash
6 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.67%) Databricks
3 8 (3.11%) Google
4 7 (2.72%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.33%) SAP
5 6 (2.33%) Solace
6 5 (1.95%) IBM
7 4 (1.56%) Cisco
7 4 (1.56%) IFS
7 4 (1.56%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) MathWorks
8 3 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.78%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.78%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle
10 1 (0.39%) Calypso
10 1 (0.39%) Hootsuite
10 1 (0.39%) Microsemi
10 1 (0.39%) Murex
10 1 (0.39%) YouTube