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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 265 259
Rank change year-on-year -121 -6 +44
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 270 274 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.98% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 2.73% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 194 210
10th Percentile £203 £361 £375
25th Percentile £409 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £706 £699 £750
90th Percentile £850 £868 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 12
10th Percentile - £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 £48.75
% change year-on-year +4.48% +37.44% +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 15,839 10,043 10,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.00% 36.09% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,567 6,300 6,153
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 509 395
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.43 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £24.17
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.36 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -45.32% +25.08%
75th Percentile £69.75 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £74.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.56% -41.66% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -74 167 £675 +17.39% 949
South East -62 31 £465 -7.00% 171
East of England -46 23 £200 -61.17% 142
South West -22 21 - - 108
North of England -68 17 £415 -27.83% 103
North West -43 12 £415 -12.63% 61
Midlands -58 7 £196 -62.22% 72
Yorkshire -44 5 £215 -64.12% 27
East Midlands -16 4 £180 -63.41% 28
West Midlands -58 3 £306 -43.02% 44
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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.96%) Confluence
3 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.85%) CMS
4 4 (1.48%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.96%) Simulink
2 7 (2.59%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.96%) SAP IBP
2 5 (1.85%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.74%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.37%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.04%) Azure
2 42 (15.56%) GCP
3 28 (10.37%) AWS
4 17 (6.30%) GitHub
5 8 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.85%) Google Gemini
7 5 (1.85%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.48%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.11%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.11%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.11%) dbt
9 3 (1.11%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.11%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.74%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.33%) HTTP
2 4 (1.48%) H.323
2 4 (1.48%) SSL
2 4 (1.48%) WebEx
3 3 (1.11%) Firewall
3 3 (1.11%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.11%) Multicast
4 2 (0.74%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.74%) DNS
4 2 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.74%) Network Security
4 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.74%) VPN
4 2 (0.74%) X.509
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
5 1 (0.37%) DMZ
5 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.04%) NoSQL
2 17 (6.30%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.22%) KDB
6 5 (1.85%) Big Data
6 5 (1.85%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.85%) Power BI
6 5 (1.85%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.48%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.11%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.11%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.11%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.74%) Metadata
9 2 (0.74%) Redis
9 2 (0.74%) Tableau
9 2 (0.74%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 33 (12.22%) Git
2 17 (6.30%) GitLab
3 12 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.59%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.11%) JIRA
6 2 (0.74%) QUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
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 59 (21.85%) Finance
2 46 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.22%) Banking
5 13 (4.81%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.07%) Front Office
8 8 (2.96%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.22%) Automotive
11 5 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.48%) Law
12 4 (1.48%) Publishing
13 3 (1.11%) Electronics
13 3 (1.11%) Military
14 2 (0.74%) Advertising
14 2 (0.74%) Marketing
14 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (22.59%) Developer
2 42 (15.56%) Senior
3 29 (10.74%) Data Scientist
4 27 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 15 (5.56%) Lead
6 14 (5.19%) Python Developer
7 13 (4.81%) Architect
7 13 (4.81%) Data Engineer
7 13 (4.81%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.44%) C++ Software Engineer
8 12 (4.44%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 11 (4.07%) Consultant
10 9 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.33%) Quantitative Developer
10 9 (3.33%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.33%) Software Manager
10 9 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (2.96%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (2.96%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.15%) Kafka
2 18 (6.67%) JSON
2 18 (6.67%) React
3 12 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
3 12 (4.44%) Pandas
4 11 (4.07%) PyTorch
5 10 (3.70%) RESTful
6 9 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.33%) LangChain
6 9 (3.33%) NumPy
7 8 (2.96%) PySpark
7 8 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (2.96%) Redux
7 8 (2.96%) scikit-learn
7 8 (2.96%) XGBoost
8 7 (2.59%) LangGraph
8 7 (2.59%) pytest
8 7 (2.59%) TensorFlow
8 7 (2.59%) Vue
8 7 (2.59%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.19%) Data Structures
2 38 (14.07%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 17 (6.30%) Cloud Native
5 15 (5.56%) Derivative
5 15 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.07%) Robotics
7 6 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.85%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.85%) Equities
8 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.48%) Exotic Derivative
9 4 (1.48%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (1.48%) PKI
9 4 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.59%) Linux
2 6 (2.22%) Unix
3 3 (1.11%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.37%) Android
5 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (34.07%) AI
2 87 (32.22%) Machine Learning
3 74 (27.41%) Software Engineering
4 65 (24.07%) Computer Science
5 53 (19.63%) CI/CD
6 52 (19.26%) Data Science
7 47 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (16.67%) Analytics
9 39 (14.44%) Mathematics
10 38 (14.07%) Validation
11 34 (12.59%) Agile
12 29 (10.74%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (10.00%) Low Latency
14 26 (9.63%) Containerisation
15 25 (9.26%) Observability
16 24 (8.89%) Data Analysis
16 24 (8.89%) DevOps
16 24 (8.89%) Multithreading
16 24 (8.89%) Performance Optimisation
17 23 (8.52%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 115 (42.59%) Python
2 73 (27.04%) Java
3 50 (18.52%) SQL
4 40 (14.81%) C++
5 31 (11.48%) C#
6 29 (10.74%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.04%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.93%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.19%) MATLAB
10 13 (4.81%) Rust
11 10 (3.70%) R
12 9 (3.33%) C
13 6 (2.22%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.85%) Scala
15 3 (1.11%) Ada
15 3 (1.11%) Embedded C++
15 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.11%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.74%) Go
17 1 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 56 (20.74%) Degree
2 39 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 29 (10.74%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.04%) Master's Degree
5 16 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.56%) PhD
7 10 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.33%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.48%) CCNP
10 4 (1.48%) CCNP Voice
11 3 (1.11%) CISSP
12 2 (0.74%) CISM
12 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.37%) CEH
13 1 (0.37%) HNC
13 1 (0.37%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.22%) NIST
3 5 (1.85%) Basel III
4 4 (1.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.48%) QA
5 3 (1.11%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.74%) MISRA
6 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) DO-254
7 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (8.52%) Docker
2 4 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.33%) Ansible
3 4 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (1.48%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.11%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.74%) Istio
6 1 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.37%) Kibana
6 1 (0.37%) logstash
6 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.81%) Databricks
3 9 (3.33%) SAP
4 8 (2.96%) Google
5 7 (2.59%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.22%) Solace
7 5 (1.85%) IBM
8 4 (1.48%) Cisco
8 4 (1.48%) IFS
8 4 (1.48%) VMware
9 3 (1.11%) MathWorks
9 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.74%) Duck Creek
10 2 (0.74%) F5
10 2 (0.74%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle
11 1 (0.37%) Hootsuite
11 1 (0.37%) Microsemi
11 1 (0.37%) Splunk
11 1 (0.37%) YouTube