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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 256 266
Rank change year-on-year -128 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 262 288 282
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.03% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 2.83% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 200 199
10th Percentile £299 £381 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £701 £750
90th Percentile £832 £853 £863
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 12
10th Percentile £61.17 £22.60 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +35.61% +28.13%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.50
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 16,028 10,176 9,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.43% 36.41% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,641 6,374 5,981
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £648 £645 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £526
% change year-on-year +1.32% -1.49% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,170 529 364
10th Percentile £13.89 £15.13 £15.92
25th Percentile £17.52 £18.87 £24.42
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £56.93
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.30% +23.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.06 £48.50
% change year-on-year +28.29% -42.14% +8.38%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -74 172 £693 +20.43% 1,016
South East -74 24 £525 +5.00% 182
South West -26 21 - - 72
East of England -44 21 £250 -52.38% 175
North of England -73 16 £374 -37.36% 106
North West -31 11 £398 -16.21% 66
Midlands -58 6 £180 -65.35% 77
Yorkshire -46 5 £215 -68.11% 27
East Midlands -15 4 £180 -63.41% 30
West Midlands -63 2 £400 -25.58% 47
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 17 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.44%) Apache
3 8 (3.05%) Confluence
4 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.91%) CMS
5 4 (1.53%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.05%) Simulink
2 6 (2.29%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) ProductWriter
1 4 (1.53%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.76%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.18%) Azure
2 44 (16.79%) GCP
3 32 (12.21%) AWS
4 17 (6.49%) GitHub
5 8 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (3.05%) OpenShift
6 7 (2.67%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.91%) Google Gemini
8 5 (1.91%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
9 4 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.15%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.15%) dbt
10 3 (1.15%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.15%) Vertex AI
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.67%) HTTP
2 4 (1.53%) H.323
2 4 (1.53%) WebEx
3 3 (1.15%) Multicast
4 2 (0.76%) VPN
4 2 (0.76%) X.509
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
5 1 (0.38%) DMZ
5 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.38%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.38%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.63%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.96%) Relational Database
3 13 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.20%) Big Data
6 8 (3.05%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.67%) Metadata
8 5 (1.91%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.91%) Power BI
8 5 (1.91%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.53%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.53%) KDB
9 4 (1.53%) Parquet
10 3 (1.15%) Kdb+
10 3 (1.15%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.15%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.76%) Redis
11 2 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (13.36%) Git
2 19 (7.25%) GitLab
3 13 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.67%) Claude Code
5 4 (1.53%) JIRA
6 2 (0.76%) QUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) Gradle
7 1 (0.38%) JMeter
7 1 (0.38%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) MLflow
7 1 (0.38%) Postman
7 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (22.90%) Finance
2 53 (20.23%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.60%) Banking
5 14 (5.34%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.20%) Front Office
8 10 (3.82%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.29%) Automotive
10 6 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.53%) Law
12 4 (1.53%) Publishing
13 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Electronics
13 3 (1.15%) Marketing
13 3 (1.15%) Military
14 2 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (20.23%) Developer
2 45 (17.18%) Senior
3 28 (10.69%) Data Scientist
4 24 (9.16%) Software Engineer
5 18 (6.87%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 13 (4.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (4.96%) Lead
8 12 (4.58%) Architect
8 12 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (4.58%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.20%) Python Developer
9 11 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (3.44%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.44%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.44%) Software Manager
10 9 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.05%) Quantitative Developer
12 7 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.02%) Kafka
2 17 (6.49%) JSON
2 17 (6.49%) React
3 14 (5.34%) PyTorch
4 12 (4.58%) Pandas
4 12 (4.58%) TensorFlow
5 11 (4.20%) PySpark
5 11 (4.20%) RESTful
6 10 (3.82%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.82%) FIX Protocol
6 10 (3.82%) LangChain
6 10 (3.82%) XGBoost
7 9 (3.44%) NumPy
7 9 (3.44%) scikit-learn
8 8 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.05%) Redux
8 8 (3.05%) REST
8 8 (3.05%) Terraform
9 7 (2.67%) FastAPI
9 7 (2.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 71 (27.10%) Data Structures
2 35 (13.36%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.11%) Derivative
5 15 (5.73%) AI Agents
6 12 (4.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (3.82%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.44%) Robotics
9 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.91%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.91%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.53%) Exotic Derivative
12 4 (1.53%) OTC Derivatives
12 4 (1.53%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.15%) Market Risk
13 3 (1.15%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.44%) Linux
2 6 (2.29%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (37.40%) Machine Learning
2 96 (36.64%) AI
3 68 (25.95%) Software Engineering
4 60 (22.90%) Computer Science
5 59 (22.52%) CI/CD
6 58 (22.14%) Data Science
7 53 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (18.32%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (16.41%) Analytics
9 43 (16.41%) Validation
10 36 (13.74%) Agile
10 36 (13.74%) Mathematics
11 28 (10.69%) DevOps
12 26 (9.92%) Low Latency
13 25 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (9.54%) Observability
14 24 (9.16%) Containerisation
14 24 (9.16%) Performance Optimisation
15 23 (8.78%) LLM
16 21 (8.02%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 114 (43.51%) Python
2 70 (26.72%) Java
3 59 (22.52%) SQL
4 40 (15.27%) C++
5 30 (11.45%) JavaScript
6 28 (10.69%) C#
7 17 (6.49%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.96%) MATLAB
10 12 (4.58%) Rust
11 8 (3.05%) C
11 8 (3.05%) R
12 6 (2.29%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.91%) Scala
14 3 (1.15%) Embedded C++
14 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.15%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.76%) Ada
15 2 (0.76%) Go
16 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (22.52%) Degree
2 41 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.25%) Master's Degree
5 16 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.34%) PhD
7 10 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.44%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.29%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.53%) CCNP
10 4 (1.53%) CCNP Voice
10 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.76%) CISM
11 2 (0.76%) CISSP
11 2 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.38%) HNC
12 1 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.91%) Basel III
2 5 (1.91%) NIST
3 4 (1.53%) GDPR
3 4 (1.53%) QA
4 3 (1.15%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.76%) MISRA
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) DO-254
6 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (10.31%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.96%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (1.53%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.15%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.76%) Istio
5 2 (0.76%) Podman
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) logstash
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (7.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.58%) Databricks
3 8 (3.05%) Google
4 7 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 5 (1.91%) SAP
5 5 (1.91%) Solace
6 4 (1.53%) Cisco
6 4 (1.53%) IBM
6 4 (1.53%) IFS
6 4 (1.53%) VMware
7 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.76%) Duck Creek
8 2 (0.76%) FactSet
8 2 (0.76%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.76%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle
8 2 (0.76%) Reuters
9 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.38%) Hootsuite