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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 269 272
Rank change year-on-year -114 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 273 273 288
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.98% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 2.72% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 193 209
10th Percentile £203 £382 £375
25th Percentile £414 £456 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £701 £700 £750
90th Percentile £848 £875 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 22 12
10th Percentile £64.25 £22.60 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.69 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +35.61% +46.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £62.81
90th Percentile £88.75 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.48% +41.05% +35.71%

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 15,686 10,027 10,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.87% 36.10% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,490 6,308 6,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £409 £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 1,069 500 414
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.46 £15.13
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.83 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -42.76% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -40.00% +12.36%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -68 170 £675 +17.39% 967
South East -58 32 £495 -1.00% 179
South West -17 23 - - 97
East of England -46 20 £200 -61.90% 151
North of England -71 17 £415 -29.21% 98
North West -43 12 £415 -21.14% 58
Midlands -63 7 £196 -62.22% 66
Yorkshire -54 5 £215 -64.04% 25
East Midlands -16 4 £180 -63.41% 26
West Midlands -62 3 £306 -43.02% 40
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 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.93%) Confluence
3 5 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.47%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Solana
Applications
1 8 (2.93%) Simulink
2 7 (2.56%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.93%) SAP IBP
2 5 (1.83%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.73%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.37%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.85%) Azure
2 41 (15.02%) GCP
3 28 (10.26%) AWS
4 17 (6.23%) GitHub
5 8 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.83%) Google Gemini
7 5 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.47%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.10%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.10%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.10%) dbt
9 3 (1.10%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.10%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (0.73%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.30%) HTTP
2 6 (2.20%) Multicast
3 4 (1.47%) SSL
4 3 (1.10%) Firewall
4 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.73%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.73%) DNS
5 2 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.73%) Network Security
5 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.73%) VPN
5 2 (0.73%) X.509
6 1 (0.37%) Broadband
6 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.37%) H.323
6 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.37%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.96%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.23%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.40%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.30%) KDB
6 5 (1.83%) Big Data
6 5 (1.83%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.83%) Power BI
6 5 (1.83%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.47%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.47%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.10%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.10%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.73%) MySQL
9 2 (0.73%) Redis
9 2 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.72%) Git
2 17 (6.23%) GitLab
3 12 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.56%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.10%) JIRA
6 2 (0.73%) QUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) Hardhat
7 1 (0.37%) JMeter
7 1 (0.37%) MLflow
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (21.25%) Finance
2 49 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.45%) Banking
5 15 (5.49%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.13%) Front Office
7 12 (4.40%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.30%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.20%) Automotive
12 5 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.47%) Law
13 4 (1.47%) Publishing
14 3 (1.10%) Electronics
14 3 (1.10%) Military
15 2 (0.73%) Advertising
15 2 (0.73%) Marketing
15 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (23.81%) Developer
2 44 (16.12%) Senior
3 30 (10.99%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.62%) Data Scientist
5 15 (5.49%) Java Developer
6 14 (5.13%) Python Developer
6 14 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 13 (4.76%) Architect
7 13 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (4.40%) Lead
9 11 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (4.03%) Consultant
10 10 (3.66%) Algorithm Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Quantitative Developer
11 9 (3.30%) Software Engineering Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Software Manager
11 9 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (2.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.06%) Kafka
2 18 (6.59%) JSON
2 18 (6.59%) React
3 15 (5.49%) FIX Protocol
4 12 (4.40%) Pandas
5 11 (4.03%) PyTorch
6 10 (3.66%) RESTful
7 9 (3.30%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.30%) LangChain
7 9 (3.30%) NumPy
8 8 (2.93%) PySpark
8 8 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (2.93%) Redux
8 8 (2.93%) scikit-learn
9 7 (2.56%) LangGraph
9 7 (2.56%) pytest
9 7 (2.56%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.56%) Vue
9 7 (2.56%) WebSockets
9 7 (2.56%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.91%) Data Structures
2 41 (15.02%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.59%) AI Agents
3 18 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (6.23%) Cloud Native
5 15 (5.49%) Derivative
6 11 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.03%) Robotics
7 8 (2.93%) Equities
8 6 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.20%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.83%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.47%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.47%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (1.47%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.47%) PKI
11 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.10%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.56%) Linux
2 5 (1.83%) Unix
3 3 (1.10%) Windows
4 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (33.33%) AI
2 86 (31.50%) Machine Learning
3 77 (28.21%) Software Engineering
4 64 (23.44%) Computer Science
5 54 (19.78%) CI/CD
6 51 (18.68%) Data Science
7 49 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (16.12%) Analytics
9 39 (14.29%) Mathematics
10 37 (13.55%) Validation
11 36 (13.19%) Agile
12 30 (10.99%) Low Latency
13 28 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (9.89%) Multithreading
15 26 (9.52%) Containerisation
16 25 (9.16%) Observability
17 24 (8.79%) Data Analysis
17 24 (8.79%) DevOps
17 24 (8.79%) Performance Optimisation
18 23 (8.42%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 114 (41.76%) Python
2 77 (28.21%) Java
3 49 (17.95%) SQL
4 40 (14.65%) C++
5 32 (11.72%) C#
6 29 (10.62%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.96%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.86%) MATLAB
8 16 (5.86%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.76%) Rust
10 10 (3.66%) C
10 10 (3.66%) R
11 5 (1.83%) Ada
11 5 (1.83%) Scala
11 5 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.10%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.10%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.73%) Go
14 1 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (19.78%) Degree
2 37 (13.55%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.59%) Master's Degree
5 15 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.49%) PhD
6 11 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.93%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.10%) CISSP
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CISM
9 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) CCNP
10 1 (0.37%) CEH
10 1 (0.37%) HNC
10 1 (0.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.20%) NIST
3 4 (1.47%) Basel III
3 4 (1.47%) GDPR
3 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.47%) QA
4 3 (1.10%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.73%) MISRA
5 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) DO-254
6 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.30%) Ansible
3 4 (1.47%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.10%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
6 1 (0.37%) logstash
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (6.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.76%) Databricks
3 9 (3.30%) SAP
4 8 (2.93%) Google
5 7 (2.56%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.20%) IBM
6 6 (2.20%) Solace
7 4 (1.47%) IFS
7 4 (1.47%) MathWorks
8 3 (1.10%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.73%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.73%) F5
9 2 (0.73%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle
10 1 (0.37%) Hootsuite
10 1 (0.37%) Infor
10 1 (0.37%) Microsemi
10 1 (0.37%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.37%) Splunk
10 1 (0.37%) YouTube