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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 271 291
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +27
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 305 276 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.04% 0.89% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 2.84% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 192 222
10th Percentile £350 £375 £384
25th Percentile £446 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £703 £725 £775
90th Percentile £950 £863 £849
UK median daily rate £550 £591 £640
% change year-on-year -6.90% -7.70% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 13
10th Percentile £21.17 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £46.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £75.70 £74.06 £61.25
90th Percentile £84.18 £75.00 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +34.00% -13.04% +9.52%

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 10,715 9,708 12,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.42% 31.23% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,693 5,813 8,743
10th Percentile £289 £294 £285
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 294 461
10th Percentile £14.29 £16.76 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +5.56% +66.79%
75th Percentile £51.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.45 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.50% -10.11% +64.94%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 +7 178 £583 -6.80% 508
East of England +12 38 £500 +17.65% 83
South East +21 35 £500 -3.61% 363
North of England -37 30 £550 +12.47% 84
Yorkshire -10 23 £638 +29.11% 10
Midlands -15 19 £520 +29.88% 39
West Midlands -9 17 £538 +34.38% 19
North West -41 6 £180 -63.19% 54
South West -13 4 £531 -20.41% 54
East Midlands -17 2 £492 +15.76% 19
North East - 1 £400 - 20
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 21 (6.89%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.95%) Apache
2 9 (2.95%) Jupyter
3 8 (2.62%) Apache Pig
4 5 (1.64%) Confluence
5 3 (0.98%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (3.28%) Simulink
2 7 (2.30%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.66%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.66%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.66%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) ProductWriter
2 2 (0.66%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.33%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 75 (24.59%) Azure
2 44 (14.43%) AWS
3 28 (9.18%) GCP
4 25 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.56%) GitHub
6 13 (4.26%) Azure AKS
7 12 (3.93%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (3.93%) PaaS
8 10 (3.28%) Serverless
9 9 (2.95%) Azure Functions
9 9 (2.95%) npm
10 8 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (1.97%) Vertex AI
13 5 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 2 (0.66%) dbt
15 2 (0.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.64%) SSL
2 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.31%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) Firewall
4 2 (0.66%) SNMP
4 2 (0.66%) SSH
4 2 (0.66%) Wireless
5 1 (0.33%) 2G
5 1 (0.33%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.33%) LTE
5 1 (0.33%) Mobile Backhaul
5 1 (0.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.16%) NoSQL
2 26 (8.52%) Hadoop
3 23 (7.54%) Power BI
4 17 (5.57%) Big Data
4 17 (5.57%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.92%) Tableau
6 14 (4.59%) KDB
7 13 (4.26%) Kdb+
8 11 (3.61%) Data Mining
9 10 (3.28%) Apache Hive
10 9 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.30%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (2.30%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.97%) DB2
12 6 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.97%) MemSQL
12 6 (1.97%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.97%) Sybase IQ
13 5 (1.64%) GIS
13 5 (1.64%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (11.48%) Git
2 20 (6.56%) JIRA
3 16 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.93%) GitLab
5 10 (3.28%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.95%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.97%) JUnit
8 5 (1.64%) PyCharm
8 5 (1.64%) QUnit
9 4 (1.31%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.98%) Gradle
10 3 (0.98%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.98%) Maven
10 3 (0.98%) MLflow
10 3 (0.98%) Mockito
10 3 (0.98%) Selenium
10 3 (0.98%) TestNG
10 3 (0.98%) TestRail
10 3 (0.98%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.98%) Zephyr
General
1 111 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 66 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
2 66 (21.64%) Finance
3 42 (13.77%) Front Office
4 25 (8.20%) Banking
5 14 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.95%) Electronics
7 9 (2.95%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.95%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.95%) Retail
8 8 (2.62%) Marketing
9 7 (2.30%) Games
10 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.97%) Legal
11 4 (1.31%) Back Office
11 4 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.31%) Publishing
12 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 112 (36.72%) Developer
2 38 (12.46%) Data Scientist
3 31 (10.16%) Senior
4 23 (7.54%) Python Developer
5 20 (6.56%) Java Developer
5 20 (6.56%) Lead
5 20 (6.56%) Software Engineer
6 17 (5.57%) Data Engineer
7 16 (5.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 16 (5.25%) Senior Developer
8 14 (4.59%) Quantitative Developer
9 12 (3.93%) Analyst
10 11 (3.61%) C++ Developer
10 11 (3.61%) Consultant
10 11 (3.61%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 11 (3.61%) Software Developer
11 9 (2.95%) Architect
11 9 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.62%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 7 (2.30%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.77%) TensorFlow
2 34 (11.15%) Pandas
2 34 (11.15%) PyTorch
3 33 (10.82%) scikit-learn
4 25 (8.20%) NumPy
5 23 (7.54%) .NET
6 22 (7.21%) React
7 21 (6.89%) FIX Protocol
8 20 (6.56%) HTML
9 18 (5.90%) CSS
10 16 (5.25%) RESTful
11 15 (4.92%) REST
12 14 (4.59%) Node.js
13 12 (3.93%) Semantic Kernel
14 11 (3.61%) .NET Framework
14 11 (3.61%) AngularJS
15 10 (3.28%) Matplotlib
16 9 (2.95%) Svelte
16 9 (2.95%) Vue
17 8 (2.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 83 (27.21%) Data Structures
2 23 (7.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (6.89%) Fixed Income
5 20 (6.56%) Cloud Native
6 17 (5.57%) Product Ownership
7 16 (5.25%) Derivative
8 13 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (3.61%) Equities
9 11 (3.61%) FPGA
10 8 (2.62%) PKI
11 7 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.97%) PCIe
12 6 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.97%) Verilog
13 5 (1.64%) Clustering
13 5 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.64%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.16%) Linux
2 14 (4.59%) Unix
3 3 (0.98%) Android
4 2 (0.66%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.66%) Windows
4 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (43.93%) Machine Learning
2 95 (31.15%) Computer Science
3 92 (30.16%) Data Science
4 88 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (28.52%) Agile
6 79 (25.90%) AI
7 62 (20.33%) Analytics
7 62 (20.33%) CI/CD
8 58 (19.02%) Software Engineering
9 55 (18.03%) Mathematics
10 52 (17.05%) Visualisation
11 48 (15.74%) DevOps
11 48 (15.74%) LLM
12 46 (15.08%) Decision-Making
13 44 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (11.80%) Data Visualisation
15 35 (11.48%) Data Modelling
16 33 (10.82%) Deep Learning
17 31 (10.16%) Design Patterns
17 31 (10.16%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 175 (57.38%) Python
2 73 (23.93%) SQL
3 61 (20.00%) Java
4 35 (11.48%) C++
5 30 (9.84%) C#
6 25 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 18 (5.90%) MATLAB
9 16 (5.25%) R
10 13 (4.26%) Scala
11 12 (3.93%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.30%) Bash
13 6 (1.97%) SystemVerilog
13 6 (1.97%) Tcl
14 4 (1.31%) C
14 4 (1.31%) Haskell
15 3 (0.98%) Go
15 3 (0.98%) OCaml
15 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (23.61%) Degree
2 37 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 29 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (8.20%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.21%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.92%) PhD
7 13 (4.26%) MCP
8 6 (1.97%) HNC
8 6 (1.97%) HND
9 5 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.98%) CISSP
11 3 (0.98%) GIAC
11 3 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.98%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.66%) CEH
12 2 (0.66%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.66%) SANS
13 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.90%) QA
2 16 (5.25%) NIST
3 15 (4.92%) EU AI Act
4 9 (2.95%) GDPR
5 8 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.97%) DO-254
6 6 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.64%) FIPS 140-2
8 4 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.66%) EMIR
10 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (7.87%) Docker
2 7 (2.30%) Firmware
3 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.95%) Terraform
3 4 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (1.31%) Kibana
3 4 (1.31%) logstash
4 3 (0.98%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.66%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) rkt
6 1 (0.33%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 37 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.59%) Splunk
3 13 (4.26%) Google
4 12 (3.93%) Foundry
5 11 (3.61%) Xilinx
6 7 (2.30%) Databricks
6 7 (2.30%) Intel
7 6 (1.97%) Actel
7 6 (1.97%) Altera
7 6 (1.97%) Microsemi
8 4 (1.31%) Solace
8 4 (1.31%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.98%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.98%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.98%) SAP
9 3 (0.98%) Thales
10 2 (0.66%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.66%) Delphix
10 2 (0.66%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.66%) ServiceNow