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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 264 263
Rank change year-on-year -124 -1 +25
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 261 278 287
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 1.00% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.77% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 194 203
10th Percentile £203 £361 £375
25th Percentile £411 £450 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £728 £700 £744
90th Percentile £849 £850 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 13
10th Percentile £64.88 £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 15,933 10,040 9,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.23% 36.18% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 6,300 6,006
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
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 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,124 510 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -47.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.11 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.81 £73.88 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.99% -41.46% +11.73%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -78 165 £675 +17.39% 858
South East -62 28 £465 -7.00% 163
East of England -43 22 £225 -56.31% 149
South West -25 19 - - 95
North of England -85 17 £381 -35.01% 94
North West -42 11 £415 -12.63% 62
Midlands -51 7 £196 -62.22% 68
Yorkshire -53 6 £270 -57.62% 23
East Midlands -15 4 £180 -63.41% 26
West Midlands -60 3 £306 -43.02% 42
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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.07%) Confluence
3 5 (1.92%) CMS
4 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.07%) Simulink
2 6 (2.30%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) ProductWriter
1 5 (1.92%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.77%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.24%) Azure
2 42 (16.09%) GCP
3 29 (11.11%) AWS
4 17 (6.51%) GitHub
5 8 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.92%) Google Gemini
7 5 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.53%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.15%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.15%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.15%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.77%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (0.77%) dbt
10 2 (0.77%) OCI
10 2 (0.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.07%) HTTP
2 4 (1.53%) H.323
2 4 (1.53%) WebEx
3 3 (1.15%) Multicast
3 3 (1.15%) SSL
4 2 (0.77%) Firewall
4 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.77%) VPN
4 2 (0.77%) X.509
5 1 (0.38%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.38%) Broadband
5 1 (0.38%) DMZ
5 1 (0.38%) DNS
5 1 (0.38%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.38%) Network Security
5 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.38%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.38%) SAN
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.28%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.60%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.92%) Big Data
5 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.92%) KDB
5 5 (1.92%) Power BI
5 5 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.53%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.15%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.15%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.15%) Spark SQL
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (0.77%) Metadata
8 2 (0.77%) Redis
8 2 (0.77%) Tableau
8 2 (0.77%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 33 (12.64%) Git
2 17 (6.51%) GitLab
3 12 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.68%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.15%) JIRA
6 2 (0.77%) QUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.38%) JMeter
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 59 (22.61%) Finance
2 46 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.26%) Banking
5 12 (4.60%) Investment Banking
5 12 (4.60%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.83%) Front Office
7 8 (3.07%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.30%) Automotive
9 6 (2.30%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.53%) Law
11 4 (1.53%) Publishing
12 3 (1.15%) Electronics
12 3 (1.15%) Military
13 2 (0.77%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Marketing
13 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (21.84%) Developer
2 42 (16.09%) Senior
3 28 (10.73%) Data Scientist
4 26 (9.96%) Software Engineer
5 14 (5.36%) Lead
6 13 (4.98%) C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (4.98%) Data Engineer
6 13 (4.98%) Python Developer
7 12 (4.60%) Architect
7 12 (4.60%) Java Developer
7 12 (4.60%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (3.83%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (3.45%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.45%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.45%) Software Manager
10 9 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Consultant
11 8 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 8 (3.07%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.43%) Kafka
2 18 (6.90%) React
3 17 (6.51%) JSON
4 12 (4.60%) PyTorch
5 11 (4.21%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (4.21%) Pandas
6 10 (3.83%) LangChain
6 10 (3.83%) RESTful
7 9 (3.45%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.45%) NumPy
7 9 (3.45%) TensorFlow
8 8 (3.07%) PySpark
8 8 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.07%) Redux
9 7 (2.68%) FastAPI
9 7 (2.68%) Hugging Face
9 7 (2.68%) LangGraph
9 7 (2.68%) pytest
9 7 (2.68%) WebSockets
9 7 (2.68%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.44%) Data Structures
2 37 (14.18%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.51%) AI Agents
3 17 (6.51%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.75%) Derivative
5 14 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.83%) Robotics
8 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.92%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.53%) Equities
10 4 (1.53%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (1.53%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.53%) PKI
10 4 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.30%) Unix
3 3 (1.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.48%) AI
2 86 (32.95%) Machine Learning
3 72 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 63 (24.14%) Computer Science
5 53 (20.31%) CI/CD
6 52 (19.92%) Data Science
7 47 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (16.09%) Analytics
9 38 (14.56%) Validation
10 36 (13.79%) Mathematics
11 34 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (12.64%) Agile
13 27 (10.34%) Low Latency
14 25 (9.58%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.58%) Observability
15 24 (9.20%) DevOps
15 24 (9.20%) LLM
15 24 (9.20%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (8.81%) Data Analysis
17 22 (8.43%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 110 (42.15%) Python
2 72 (27.59%) Java
3 49 (18.77%) SQL
4 41 (15.71%) C++
5 30 (11.49%) C#
6 29 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.28%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.13%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.98%) MATLAB
9 13 (4.98%) Rust
10 8 (3.07%) C
10 8 (3.07%) R
11 6 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.92%) Scala
13 3 (1.15%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.15%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.77%) Ada
14 2 (0.77%) Go
15 1 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (20.69%) Degree
2 39 (14.94%) Security Cleared
3 29 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.28%) Master's Degree
5 15 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.36%) PhD
7 9 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.45%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.53%) CCNP
9 4 (1.53%) CCNP Voice
10 3 (1.15%) CISSP
11 2 (0.77%) CISM
11 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.38%) CEH
12 1 (0.38%) HNC
12 1 (0.38%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.30%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.30%) NIST
3 5 (1.92%) Basel III
4 4 (1.53%) GDPR
4 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.53%) QA
5 3 (1.15%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.77%) MISRA
6 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) DO-254
7 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (9.58%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.45%) Ansible
3 4 (1.53%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (1.15%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.15%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.77%) Istio
6 1 (0.38%) Grafana
6 1 (0.38%) Kibana
6 1 (0.38%) logstash
6 1 (0.38%) Podman
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.21%) Databricks
3 8 (3.07%) Google
4 7 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.30%) SAP
5 6 (2.30%) 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 (0.77%) Duck Creek
8 2 (0.77%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.77%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle
9 1 (0.38%) Altera
9 1 (0.38%) FactSet
9 1 (0.38%) Microsemi
9 1 (0.38%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.38%) YouTube