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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 273 264
Rank change year-on-year -81 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 278 255 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.94% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 2.69% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 168 205
10th Percentile £198 £400 £400
25th Percentile £396 £492 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £595
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% -6.51% -0.83%
75th Percentile £691 £721 £775
90th Percentile £842 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 49
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.37 £41.25
25th Percentile - £35.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +144.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £88.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +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 14,847 9,465 11,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.17% 34.82% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,228 5,997 7,278
10th Percentile £318 £305 £289
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 801 468 782
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.01 £18.87 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.81 £36.50
% change year-on-year +42.70% -15.60% +15.87%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -60 158 £650 +8.33% 155
South East -50 42 £488 -4.88% 69
South West -5 35 - - 43
North of England -83 17 £415 -30.83% 70
East of England -44 14 £185 -66.36% 54
North West -55 11 £415 -26.22% 32
Midlands -57 8 £463 +63.14% 42
West Midlands -50 7 £463 - 16
Yorkshire -48 6 £215 -64.12% 22
East Midlands -14 1 - - 26
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 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.60%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.52%) Confluence
4 3 (1.08%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.72%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.60%) CPLEX
2 6 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) Simulink
5 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.24%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.52%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.72%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.72%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.72%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.19%) Azure
2 42 (15.11%) AWS
3 25 (8.99%) GCP
4 13 (4.68%) GitHub
5 9 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.24%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.88%) Dagster
6 8 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (2.52%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (1.80%) Vertex AI
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.08%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (1.08%) dbt
10 3 (1.08%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.08%) Serverless
11 2 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.96%) HTTP
2 6 (2.16%) Multicast
3 4 (1.44%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.44%) SSL
4 3 (1.08%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.08%) DNS
4 3 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.08%) Firewall
4 3 (1.08%) Network Security
4 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.72%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.36%) Broadband
6 1 (0.36%) DMZ
6 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.12%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.40%) NoSQL
3 14 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.32%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.24%) Big Data
6 9 (3.24%) Power BI
7 7 (2.52%) KDB
8 6 (2.16%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.80%) Tableau
10 4 (1.44%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.44%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.08%) Redis
12 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.72%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.72%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.72%) Db2
12 2 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 31 (11.15%) Git
2 15 (5.40%) GitLab
3 10 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.16%) MLflow
5 5 (1.80%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.72%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) JMeter
6 2 (0.72%) Postman
6 2 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Gradle
7 1 (0.36%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Maven
7 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 54 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
2 53 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.55%) Finance
4 36 (12.95%) Banking
5 18 (6.47%) Front Office
5 18 (6.47%) Investment Banking
6 11 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.16%) Aerospace
7 6 (2.16%) Law
8 5 (1.80%) Aviation
9 4 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Electronics
9 4 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Advertising
11 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (26.62%) Developer
2 47 (16.91%) Senior
3 45 (16.19%) Software Engineer
4 36 (12.95%) Data Scientist
5 23 (8.27%) Algorithm Engineer
6 18 (6.47%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.12%) Python Developer
8 13 (4.68%) C++ Software Engineer
8 13 (4.68%) Consultant
8 13 (4.68%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.32%) Architect
10 10 (3.60%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.60%) Lead
11 9 (3.24%) Quantitative Developer
11 9 (3.24%) Senior Data Scientist
12 8 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) SAP Consultant
12 8 (2.88%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.52%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.07%) Kafka
2 26 (9.35%) PyTorch
3 24 (8.63%) Pandas
4 23 (8.27%) TensorFlow
5 22 (7.91%) scikit-learn
6 21 (7.55%) NumPy
7 19 (6.83%) FIX Protocol
8 17 (6.12%) React
9 13 (4.68%) JSON
9 13 (4.68%) RESTful
9 13 (4.68%) Spring
10 12 (4.32%) Spring Boot
11 10 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (3.24%) Django
12 9 (3.24%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.24%) Flask
12 9 (3.24%) Hugging Face
12 9 (3.24%) OpenAPI
12 9 (3.24%) REST
12 9 (3.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.66%) Data Structures
2 34 (12.23%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (5.40%) Derivative
5 13 (4.68%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.96%) AI Agents
6 11 (3.96%) Equities
7 6 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.80%) Robotics
9 4 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.08%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (1.08%) OTC Derivatives
10 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Linux
2 2 (0.72%) Android
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.09%) Machine Learning
2 83 (29.86%) Software Engineering
3 79 (28.42%) AI
4 66 (23.74%) Computer Science
5 62 (22.30%) CI/CD
6 55 (19.78%) Data Science
7 53 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (18.35%) Analytics
9 36 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
10 35 (12.59%) Containerisation
11 34 (12.23%) Mathematics
11 34 (12.23%) Multithreading
12 33 (11.87%) Low Latency
13 30 (10.79%) Agile
14 27 (9.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (9.71%) LLM
14 27 (9.71%) Microservices
14 27 (9.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (9.35%) Data Analysis
15 26 (9.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 118 (42.45%) Python
2 65 (23.38%) Java
3 56 (20.14%) SQL
4 34 (12.23%) C#
5 27 (9.71%) C++
6 23 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.12%) MATLAB
8 15 (5.40%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.04%) Ada
10 13 (4.68%) JavaScript
11 12 (4.32%) Rust
12 11 (3.96%) R
13 7 (2.52%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.44%) C
14 4 (1.44%) Go
14 4 (1.44%) Scala
15 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
16 2 (0.72%) Tcl
17 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (16.91%) Degree
2 31 (11.15%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (5.40%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.60%) DBS Check
7 9 (3.24%) PhD
8 2 (0.72%) HNC
8 2 (0.72%) HND
9 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.36%) CEH
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.52%) QA
4 2 (0.72%) DO-254
4 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (13.67%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.72%) Firmware
3 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.52%) Ansible
3 4 (1.44%) Kubeflow
3 4 (1.44%) Terraform
4 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 2 (0.72%) Istio
6 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) logstash
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (5.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.68%) Databricks
3 10 (3.60%) SAP
4 9 (3.24%) IBM
4 9 (3.24%) Solace
5 7 (2.52%) Google
6 6 (2.16%) IFS
6 6 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.80%) MathWorks
8 4 (1.44%) Oracle
9 3 (1.08%) Duck Creek
9 3 (1.08%) F5
9 3 (1.08%) Guidewire
9 3 (1.08%) Splunk
10 2 (0.72%) Actel
10 2 (0.72%) Altera
10 2 (0.72%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.72%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.72%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.72%) Xilinx