Algorithm Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Algorithm Engineer
England > London

The median Algorithm Engineer daily rate in London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 349 382
Rank change year-on-year -62 +33 +134
Contract jobs requiring an Algorithm Engineer 3 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.017% 0.063% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.068% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.24%
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £700 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -17.24%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,042 11,851 16,753
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.56% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,726 8,117 12,092
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 146 338
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.38 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £51.80 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £63.98
England median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
% change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%

Algorithm Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Algorithm Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Algorithm Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Algorithm Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Algorithm Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Algorithm Engineer job vacancies in London

Algorithm Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Algorithm Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Algorithm Engineer job vacancies in London

Algorithm Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, Algorithm Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Algorithm Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Backtesting
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) KDB
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing

Algorithm Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) KDB
1 1 (33.33%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ADO
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) TWAP
1 1 (33.33%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Backtesting
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Pattern Recognition
3 1 (33.33%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL