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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 258 257
Rank change year-on-year -68 -1 +24
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 279 223 320
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.93% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 2.72% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 148 209
10th Percentile £194 £418 £398
25th Percentile £450 £512 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +8.51% -0.42%
75th Percentile £723 £725 £775
90th Percentile £863 £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 - £28.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.85 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.00 £67.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +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 13,499 8,211 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.37% 34.30% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,479 5,331 7,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -3.18% -3.42%
75th Percentile £636 £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 714 345 838
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.28
Median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -3.70% +59.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £87.05 £83.76 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.03 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.99% -5.64% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -65 149 £625 -3.85% 194
South West +11 49 £500 -24.81% 47
South East -47 38 £550 +10.00% 68
East of England -40 17 £215 -66.92% 65
North of England -81 14 £215 -64.12% 51
Yorkshire -51 10 £215 -64.12% 12
Midlands -53 7 £463 +63.14% 24
West Midlands -52 6 £463 - 12
North West -47 4 £355 -36.89% 29
East Midlands -30 1 - - 12
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 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.15%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.15%) CPLEX
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) LaTeX
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) Simulink
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.23%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.51%) ProductWriter
3 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 41 (14.70%) AWS
2 38 (13.62%) Azure
3 21 (7.53%) GCP
4 9 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.87%) Dagster
6 7 (2.51%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (2.15%) GitHub
7 6 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.79%) Vertex AI
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.08%) dbt
10 3 (1.08%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.58%) HTTP
2 6 (2.15%) Multicast
3 5 (1.79%) BIG-IP
3 5 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (1.79%) Firewall
3 5 (1.79%) Network Security
3 5 (1.79%) SSL
4 4 (1.43%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.08%) DNS
5 3 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.08%) S/MIME
5 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.08%) VPN
6 2 (0.72%) BGP
6 2 (0.72%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.72%) IPsec
6 2 (0.72%) LAN
6 2 (0.72%) MPLS
6 2 (0.72%) OSPF
6 2 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.94%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.23%) Power BI
4 8 (2.87%) Big Data
4 8 (2.87%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.51%) KDB
6 6 (2.15%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.79%) Tableau
8 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.08%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.72%) Kdb+
10 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.72%) TigerGraph
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.36%) Metadata
11 1 (0.36%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (8.24%) Git
2 11 (3.94%) GitLab
3 5 (1.79%) MLflow
4 2 (0.72%) Gradle
4 2 (0.72%) JUnit
4 2 (0.72%) Maven
4 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
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%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 47 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
2 45 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.26%) Finance
4 31 (11.11%) Banking
5 22 (7.89%) Front Office
6 18 (6.45%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.87%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.15%) Aviation
10 5 (1.79%) Law
11 4 (1.43%) Electronics
11 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.08%) Retail
13 2 (0.72%) Advertising
13 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.72%) Marketing
13 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (25.09%) Developer
2 61 (21.86%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.05%) Senior
4 30 (10.75%) Algorithm Engineer
4 30 (10.75%) Data Scientist
5 19 (6.81%) Python Developer
6 17 (6.09%) Java Developer
7 16 (5.73%) Architect
8 15 (5.38%) C++ Software Engineer
9 12 (4.30%) C++ Developer
9 12 (4.30%) Consultant
9 12 (4.30%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (3.58%) Quantitative Developer
12 9 (3.23%) Lead
13 8 (2.87%) SAP Consultant
13 8 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.51%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.51%) Senior Data Scientist
15 6 (2.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.24%) PyTorch
2 22 (7.89%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (7.89%) scikit-learn
3 21 (7.53%) TensorFlow
4 18 (6.45%) Pandas
5 15 (5.38%) NumPy
6 14 (5.02%) Kafka
6 14 (5.02%) React
7 10 (3.58%) Spring
7 10 (3.58%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.87%) REST
9 7 (2.51%) Seaborn
9 7 (2.51%) WebSockets
10 6 (2.15%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.15%) Hugging Face
10 6 (2.15%) Matplotlib
10 6 (2.15%) Ultra Messaging
11 5 (1.79%) Flask
11 5 (1.79%) RESTful
11 5 (1.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.05%) Data Structures
2 29 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.53%) Equities
4 19 (6.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (6.45%) Derivative
6 12 (4.30%) Robotics
7 10 (3.58%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.58%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.23%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.87%) PKI
10 7 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
13 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
14 3 (1.08%) FPGA
14 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.08%) Smartcard
15 2 (0.72%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Unix
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Solaris
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.54%) Software Engineering
2 87 (31.18%) Machine Learning
3 64 (22.94%) AI
4 61 (21.86%) CI/CD
5 59 (21.15%) Computer Science
6 48 (17.20%) Data Science
7 46 (16.49%) Analytics
8 44 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (12.54%) Mathematics
10 34 (12.19%) Low Latency
11 33 (11.83%) Multithreading
12 30 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (10.04%) Containerisation
14 26 (9.32%) Validation
15 25 (8.96%) Data Analysis
16 24 (8.60%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (8.60%) LLM
17 23 (8.24%) Agile
17 23 (8.24%) Electronic Trading
17 23 (8.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (41.58%) Python
2 54 (19.35%) Java
3 43 (15.41%) SQL
4 37 (13.26%) C++
5 28 (10.04%) C#
6 27 (9.68%) MATLAB
7 21 (7.53%) Ada
8 18 (6.45%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.23%) Rust
10 8 (2.87%) C
10 8 (2.87%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.87%) R
11 6 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.08%) Scala
13 2 (0.72%) Bash
13 2 (0.72%) Go
13 2 (0.72%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.72%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 44 (15.77%) Degree
2 35 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.02%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.58%) PhD
7 7 (2.51%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.43%) CISSP
10 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.08%) CISM
10 3 (1.08%) GIAC
11 2 (0.72%) CCDP
11 2 (0.72%) CCIE
11 2 (0.72%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.72%) CHECK Team Leader
11 2 (0.72%) HNC
11 2 (0.72%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 8 (2.87%) QA
3 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.43%) NIST
5 2 (0.72%) DO-254
5 2 (0.72%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.72%) NCSC
5 2 (0.72%) RMADS
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (11.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Firmware
3 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.79%) Grafana
3 3 (1.08%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.08%) Terraform
4 2 (0.72%) 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 14 (5.02%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.30%) Databricks
2 12 (4.30%) IBM
3 10 (3.58%) MathWorks
4 9 (3.23%) SAP
5 7 (2.51%) Google
5 7 (2.51%) Solace
6 6 (2.15%) IFS
7 5 (1.79%) F5
7 5 (1.79%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.08%) Charles River
8 3 (1.08%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.08%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.08%) Splunk
8 3 (1.08%) Thales
9 2 (0.72%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.72%) Netskope
9 2 (0.72%) Zscaler