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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 261 266
Rank change year-on-year -80 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 280 231 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.92% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 2.66% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 159 208
10th Percentile £197 £413 £396
25th Percentile £402 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £564
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +10.86% -5.65%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £775
90th Percentile £840 £850 £851
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £553
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.45% -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 23 48
10th Percentile £53.53 £22.14 £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 14,172 8,674 11,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.71% 34.73% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,852 5,567 7,306
10th Percentile £313 £303 £279
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 397 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.17
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.10 £82.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year +32.61% -10.10% +58.55%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -62 149 £625 -0.79% 109
South West +1 47 £500 -9.09% 39
South East -45 40 £513 -12.77% 58
North of England -74 18 £374 -37.62% 35
East of England -43 14 £185 -71.54% 44
Yorkshire -45 9 £215 -64.12% 7
North West -47 9 £395 -29.84% 17
Midlands -49 7 £463 +63.14% 22
West Midlands -52 6 £463 - 11
East Midlands -20 1 - - 11
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 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.14%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.36%) IIS
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (3.57%) CPLEX
2 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.07%) LaTeX
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.71%) Simulink
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.21%) SAP IBP
2 7 (2.50%) ProductWriter
3 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.07%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (15.00%) Azure
2 41 (14.64%) AWS
3 25 (8.93%) GCP
4 10 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.86%) Dagster
5 8 (2.86%) GitHub
5 8 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.14%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (1.79%) Vertex AI
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.07%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.07%) Azure AI
10 3 (1.07%) dbt
10 3 (1.07%) Google Gemini
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) HTTP
2 6 (2.14%) Multicast
3 4 (1.43%) BIG-IP
3 4 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (1.43%) Firewall
3 4 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.43%) Network Security
3 4 (1.43%) SSL
4 3 (1.07%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.71%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.36%) IPsec
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 14 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 14 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.57%) Power BI
3 10 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.21%) Big Data
5 7 (2.50%) KDB
6 6 (2.14%) Tableau
7 5 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.43%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.07%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.07%) Redis
10 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.71%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.71%) Kdb+
10 2 (0.71%) Spark SQL
10 2 (0.71%) TigerGraph
11 1 (0.36%) Power Query
11 1 (0.36%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (10.36%) Git
2 14 (5.00%) GitLab
3 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.14%) MLflow
5 4 (1.43%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.71%) Gradle
6 2 (0.71%) Maven
6 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Ant
7 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.36%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.36%) JMeter
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
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 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.29%) Finance
4 34 (12.14%) Banking
5 19 (6.79%) Front Office
6 18 (6.43%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.86%) Law
7 8 (2.86%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.79%) Aviation
10 4 (1.43%) Electronics
10 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.07%) Marketing
11 3 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Retail
12 2 (0.71%) Advertising
12 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (26.07%) Developer
2 61 (21.79%) Software Engineer
3 45 (16.07%) Senior
4 31 (11.07%) Algorithm Engineer
4 31 (11.07%) Data Scientist
5 21 (7.50%) Python Developer
6 17 (6.07%) Java Developer
7 13 (4.64%) Architect
7 13 (4.64%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (4.64%) Consultant
7 13 (4.64%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (3.21%) C++ Developer
9 9 (3.21%) Lead
9 9 (3.21%) Quantitative Developer
10 8 (2.86%) SAP Consultant
11 7 (2.50%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.14%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.93%) PyTorch
2 24 (8.57%) scikit-learn
3 23 (8.21%) Kafka
3 23 (8.21%) Pandas
3 23 (8.21%) TensorFlow
4 21 (7.50%) FIX Protocol
5 20 (7.14%) NumPy
6 14 (5.00%) React
7 12 (4.29%) RESTful
8 10 (3.57%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (3.57%) Spring
8 10 (3.57%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.21%) Django
9 9 (3.21%) Flask
9 9 (3.21%) OpenAPI
9 9 (3.21%) Swagger
10 8 (2.86%) JSON
10 8 (2.86%) pytest
10 8 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 57 (20.36%) Data Structures
2 33 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.07%) Equities
4 16 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 15 (5.36%) Derivative
6 11 (3.93%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.57%) AI Agents
8 8 (2.86%) Robotics
9 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.43%) PKI
10 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.07%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.07%) FPGA
11 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.07%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.71%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Solaris
3 1 (0.36%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.21%) Software Engineering
2 84 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 70 (25.00%) AI
4 62 (22.14%) CI/CD
5 61 (21.79%) Computer Science
6 54 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (18.21%) Data Science
8 47 (16.79%) Analytics
9 35 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 35 (12.50%) Mathematics
10 34 (12.14%) Multithreading
11 33 (11.79%) Containerisation
12 32 (11.43%) Low Latency
13 28 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 26 (9.29%) LLM
15 25 (8.93%) Agile
15 25 (8.93%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (8.93%) Performance Optimisation
15 25 (8.93%) Validation
16 24 (8.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 122 (43.57%) Python
2 60 (21.43%) Java
3 50 (17.86%) SQL
4 36 (12.86%) C#
5 35 (12.50%) C++
6 28 (10.00%) MATLAB
7 22 (7.86%) TypeScript
8 21 (7.50%) Ada
9 13 (4.64%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.29%) Rust
11 10 (3.57%) R
12 9 (3.21%) JavaScript
13 8 (2.86%) C
14 7 (2.50%) Kotlin
15 4 (1.43%) Go
15 4 (1.43%) Scala
16 3 (1.07%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.71%) SystemVerilog
17 2 (0.71%) Tcl
18 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 46 (16.43%) Degree
2 32 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 12 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.21%) PhD
8 8 (2.86%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) HNC
9 2 (0.71%) HND
9 2 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.36%) CCDP
10 1 (0.36%) CCIE
10 1 (0.36%) CEH
10 1 (0.36%) CISM
10 1 (0.36%) GIAC
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.21%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.50%) QA
4 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) DO-254
5 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) RMADS
System Software
1 36 (12.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.07%) Firmware
3 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.43%) Ansible
3 3 (1.07%) Grafana
3 3 (1.07%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.36%) Istio
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.29%) Databricks
2 12 (4.29%) IBM
3 10 (3.57%) MathWorks
3 10 (3.57%) SAP
4 7 (2.50%) Google
5 6 (2.14%) IFS
5 6 (2.14%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.14%) Solace
6 4 (1.43%) F5
6 4 (1.43%) Oracle
7 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.07%) Charles River
7 3 (1.07%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) Altera
8 2 (0.71%) Intel
8 2 (0.71%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.71%) Microsemi
8 2 (0.71%) Xilinx