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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 262 265
Rank change year-on-year -112 +3 +36
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 280 269 296
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.97% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 2.69% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 186 210
10th Percentile £203 £383 £375
25th Percentile £408 £461 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £706 £703 £775
90th Percentile £846 £863 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 24 13
10th Percentile £64.38 £23.69 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +32.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £82.63 £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 15,653 10,005 10,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.77% 35.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,494 6,293 6,311
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 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,023 500 434
10th Percentile £14.17 £15.50 £14.17
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.95 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -42.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.13 £59.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +13.84%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -60 172 £675 +17.39% 562
South East -52 35 £428 -14.50% 113
South West -23 25 - - 64
East of England -39 19 £193 -63.33% 85
North of England -75 18 £415 -27.83% 50
North West -44 12 £415 -24.55% 27
Midlands -59 7 £196 -62.62% 41
Yorkshire -49 6 £215 -64.04% 12
East Midlands -15 4 £180 -63.41% 18
West Midlands -60 3 £306 -44.32% 23
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 10 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.86%) Confluence
3 7 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.43%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.07%) 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 9 (3.21%) CPLEX
2 8 (2.86%) Simulink
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.86%) SAP IBP
2 5 (1.79%) ProductWriter
3 2 (0.71%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.36%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 47 (16.79%) Azure
2 40 (14.29%) GCP
3 30 (10.71%) AWS
4 18 (6.43%) GitHub
5 7 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.79%) Google Gemini
8 4 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.07%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.07%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.07%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.07%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.07%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.07%) dbt
9 3 (1.07%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.07%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.07%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.93%) HTTP
2 6 (2.14%) Multicast
3 4 (1.43%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.43%) SSL
4 3 (1.07%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.07%) DNS
4 3 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.07%) Firewall
4 3 (1.07%) Network Security
4 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) Broadband
5 1 (0.36%) DMZ
5 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
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 22 (7.86%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.36%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.86%) KDB
7 6 (2.14%) Big Data
7 6 (2.14%) Power BI
7 6 (2.14%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.43%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.07%) Kdb+
9 3 (1.07%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.07%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.07%) Tableau
10 2 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.71%) Metadata
10 2 (0.71%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 31 (11.07%) Git
2 17 (6.07%) GitLab
3 12 (4.29%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.50%) Claude Code
5 3 (1.07%) JIRA
5 3 (1.07%) MLflow
6 2 (0.71%) JMeter
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.36%) Hardhat
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 57 (20.36%) Finance
2 49 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 45 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.79%) Banking
5 16 (5.71%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.00%) Front Office
6 14 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.21%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.14%) Automotive
11 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.79%) Law
12 4 (1.43%) Electronics
12 4 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.43%) Publishing
13 3 (1.07%) Advertising
13 3 (1.07%) Aviation
13 3 (1.07%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (25.00%) Developer
2 43 (15.36%) Senior
3 33 (11.79%) Software Engineer
4 30 (10.71%) Data Scientist
5 17 (6.07%) Java Developer
5 17 (6.07%) Python Developer
6 13 (4.64%) Architect
6 13 (4.64%) C++ Software Engineer
6 13 (4.64%) Consultant
6 13 (4.64%) Data Engineer
6 13 (4.64%) Senior Developer
7 12 (4.29%) Algorithm Engineer
8 11 (3.93%) Lead
9 10 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 9 (3.21%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.21%) Quantitative Developer
10 9 (3.21%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (3.21%) Software Manager
11 8 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.93%) Kafka
2 20 (7.14%) React
3 19 (6.79%) JSON
4 17 (6.07%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (6.07%) Pandas
5 14 (5.00%) NumPy
6 12 (4.29%) PyTorch
6 12 (4.29%) RESTful
7 11 (3.93%) scikit-learn
8 9 (3.21%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.21%) FastAPI
8 9 (3.21%) LangChain
8 9 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (3.21%) Redux
8 9 (3.21%) Spring
9 8 (2.86%) Django
9 8 (2.86%) OpenAPI
9 8 (2.86%) PySpark
9 8 (2.86%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 74 (26.43%) Data Structures
2 44 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (6.07%) AI Agents
4 17 (6.07%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.07%) Derivative
5 12 (4.29%) Robotics
6 11 (3.93%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.86%) Equities
8 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.79%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.43%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.43%) OTC Derivatives
11 3 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.07%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (1.07%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.79%) Linux
2 2 (0.71%) Unix
2 2 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Android
3 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.79%) AI
2 86 (30.71%) Machine Learning
3 83 (29.64%) Software Engineering
4 67 (23.93%) Computer Science
5 54 (19.29%) CI/CD
5 54 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (17.86%) Data Science
7 42 (15.00%) Analytics
7 42 (15.00%) Mathematics
8 38 (13.57%) Agile
9 33 (11.79%) Low Latency
9 33 (11.79%) Validation
10 30 (10.71%) Containerisation
10 30 (10.71%) Multithreading
11 28 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (9.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (9.29%) Observability
12 26 (9.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (8.93%) Data Analysis
13 25 (8.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.79%) Python
2 81 (28.93%) Java
3 51 (18.21%) SQL
4 41 (14.64%) C++
5 34 (12.14%) C#
6 30 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 21 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 17 (6.07%) MATLAB
9 16 (5.71%) PowerShell
10 14 (5.00%) Rust
11 10 (3.57%) R
12 9 (3.21%) C
13 6 (2.14%) Ada
14 5 (1.79%) Scala
15 4 (1.43%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.07%) Embedded C++
16 3 (1.07%) SPARQL
17 2 (0.71%) Go
17 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 1 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 55 (19.64%) Degree
2 37 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.07%) Master's Degree
5 16 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.64%) PhD
7 11 (3.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.86%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.07%) CISSP
10 2 (0.71%) CISM
10 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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 15 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.14%) NIST
4 4 (1.43%) GDPR
4 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.43%) QA
5 3 (1.07%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.71%) MISRA
6 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) Basel III
7 1 (0.36%) DO-254
7 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (9.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.21%) Ansible
3 4 (1.43%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.07%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 1 (0.36%) Grafana
6 1 (0.36%) Kibana
6 1 (0.36%) logstash
6 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (6.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.00%) Databricks
3 9 (3.21%) Google
3 9 (3.21%) SAP
4 8 (2.86%) Solace
5 7 (2.50%) IBM
5 7 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.79%) MathWorks
7 4 (1.43%) IFS
8 3 (1.07%) F5
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle
8 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.71%) Duck Creek
9 2 (0.71%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.36%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.36%) Hootsuite
10 1 (0.36%) Infor
10 1 (0.36%) Microsemi
10 1 (0.36%) Splunk
10 1 (0.36%) UiPath