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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 254 267
Rank change year-on-year -115 +13 +33
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 279 271 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.98% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 2.72% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 191 207
10th Percentile £203 £385 £375
25th Percentile £411 £461 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -5.14%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £834 £875 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 23 13
10th Percentile £64.25 £23.14 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £63.63 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +37.14% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +0.72% +42.56% +39.29%

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 15,749 9,968 10,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.92% 35.90% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,539 6,260 6,229
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
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 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,055 499 418
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.50 £14.89
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -70 175 £675 +17.39% 1,161
South East -65 34 £465 -7.00% 227
South West -25 23 - - 124
East of England -48 19 £193 -63.33% 176
North of England -86 17 £415 -27.83% 116
North West -39 12 £415 -24.55% 69
Midlands -60 7 £196 -62.22% 82
Yorkshire -55 5 £215 -64.04% 30
East Midlands -5 4 £180 -63.41% 36
West Midlands -66 3 £306 -43.02% 46
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 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.87%) Confluence
3 5 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.43%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.08%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 8 (2.87%) CPLEX
1 8 (2.87%) Simulink
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.87%) SAP IBP
2 5 (1.79%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.72%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.13%) Azure
2 42 (15.05%) GCP
3 28 (10.04%) AWS
4 17 (6.09%) GitHub
5 8 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.79%) Google Gemini
7 5 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.08%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.08%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.08%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.08%) dbt
9 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.08%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.08%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.94%) HTTP
2 6 (2.15%) Multicast
3 4 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.43%) 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 1 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) DMZ
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.36%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.36%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.53%) NoSQL
2 19 (6.81%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.02%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.30%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.87%) KDB
6 6 (2.15%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.79%) Big Data
7 5 (1.79%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.79%) Power BI
8 4 (1.43%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.08%) Kdb+
9 3 (1.08%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.08%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.72%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.72%) Metadata
10 2 (0.72%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 32 (11.47%) Git
2 17 (6.09%) GitLab
3 12 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.51%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.08%) JIRA
6 2 (0.72%) JMeter
6 2 (0.72%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.36%) MLflow
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.36%) QUnit
7 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (21.15%) Finance
2 49 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.90%) Banking
5 16 (5.73%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.02%) Front Office
7 13 (4.66%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.51%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.15%) Automotive
11 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.43%) Electronics
12 4 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.43%) Law
12 4 (1.43%) Publishing
13 3 (1.08%) Advertising
13 3 (1.08%) Military
14 2 (0.72%) Aviation
14 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (24.73%) Developer
2 43 (15.41%) Senior
3 31 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.39%) Data Scientist
5 17 (6.09%) Java Developer
6 16 (5.73%) Python Developer
7 13 (4.66%) Architect
7 13 (4.66%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (4.66%) Consultant
7 13 (4.66%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
8 11 (3.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (3.94%) Lead
9 10 (3.58%) Algorithm Engineer
10 9 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.23%) Quantitative Developer
10 9 (3.23%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.23%) Software Manager
10 9 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.24%) Kafka
2 19 (6.81%) JSON
2 19 (6.81%) React
3 17 (6.09%) FIX Protocol
4 13 (4.66%) Pandas
5 11 (3.94%) PyTorch
5 11 (3.94%) RESTful
6 10 (3.58%) NumPy
7 9 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.23%) LangChain
7 9 (3.23%) Redux
8 8 (2.87%) FastAPI
8 8 (2.87%) PySpark
8 8 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (2.87%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.87%) Spring
8 8 (2.87%) WebSockets
9 7 (2.51%) Django
9 7 (2.51%) Flask
9 7 (2.51%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 73 (26.16%) Data Structures
2 43 (15.41%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.45%) AI Agents
3 18 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (6.09%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.09%) Derivative
5 12 (4.30%) Robotics
6 11 (3.94%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.87%) Equities
8 6 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.79%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.43%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.43%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (1.43%) OTC Derivatives
11 3 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.79%) Linux
1 5 (1.79%) Unix
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.33%) AI
2 87 (31.18%) Machine Learning
3 80 (28.67%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.66%) Computer Science
5 54 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 52 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (18.28%) Data Science
8 45 (16.13%) Analytics
9 41 (14.70%) Mathematics
10 36 (12.90%) Agile
10 36 (12.90%) Validation
11 32 (11.47%) Low Latency
12 29 (10.39%) Multithreading
13 28 (10.04%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (9.32%) Containerisation
14 26 (9.32%) Observability
15 24 (8.60%) Data Analysis
15 24 (8.60%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (8.24%) DevOps
16 23 (8.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 118 (42.29%) Python
2 82 (29.39%) Java
3 51 (18.28%) SQL
4 42 (15.05%) C++
5 34 (12.19%) C#
6 31 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.73%) MATLAB
8 16 (5.73%) PowerShell
9 15 (5.38%) Rust
10 10 (3.58%) C
11 9 (3.23%) R
12 5 (1.79%) Ada
12 5 (1.79%) Scala
12 5 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.08%) Embedded C++
14 3 (1.08%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.72%) Go
16 1 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 56 (20.07%) Degree
2 37 (13.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.09%) Master's Degree
5 16 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.02%) PhD
7 11 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.87%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.08%) CISSP
10 2 (0.72%) CISM
10 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.36%) CEH
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) HNC
11 1 (0.36%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.15%) NIST
3 4 (1.43%) Basel III
3 4 (1.43%) GDPR
3 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.43%) QA
4 3 (1.08%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.72%) MISRA
5 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) DO-254
6 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.23%) Ansible
3 4 (1.43%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.08%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.72%) Istio
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) logstash
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.66%) Databricks
3 9 (3.23%) SAP
4 8 (2.87%) Google
5 7 (2.51%) OpenAI
5 7 (2.51%) Solace
6 6 (2.15%) IBM
7 4 (1.43%) IFS
7 4 (1.43%) MathWorks
8 3 (1.08%) F5
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.72%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.72%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.36%) Ariba
10 1 (0.36%) Calypso
10 1 (0.36%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.36%) Intel
10 1 (0.36%) Murex
10 1 (0.36%) TIBCO