Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Algorithms
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 67 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -30
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 13 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.72% 1.32% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.01% 3.88% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £360 £409 £403
25th Percentile £381 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +3.03% -45.00%
75th Percentile £437 £438 £419
90th Percentile £525 - £423
Scotland median daily rate £418 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -19.05% -30.00%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 324 258 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.91% 34.17% 31.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 149 177
10th Percentile £212 £323 £281
25th Percentile £380 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +3.96%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £675
90th Percentile £625 £651 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 6
10th Percentile £15.59 £19.15 £15.42
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.98 £15.57
Median hourly rate £28.09 £24.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% +42.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £25.97 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.87 £34.27 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -8.67%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Glasgow

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon SageMaker
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (38.46%) Serverless
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (23.08%) BlazeMeter
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Data Lake
1 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) DB2
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MLflow
2 3 (23.08%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Database Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) React
2 3 (23.08%) scikit-learn
2 3 (23.08%) TensorFlow
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 2 (15.38%) Torch
4 1 (7.69%) J2EE
4 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
4 1 (7.69%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Machine Learning
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Unit Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Visualisation
4 5 (38.46%) AI
4 5 (38.46%) Complexity Analysis
4 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (38.46%) Data Science
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Business Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (23.08%) Micro Frontends
6 3 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) DocuSign
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow