Algorithms Contract Job Trends in London

Algorithms
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 228 209
Rank change year-on-year -45 -19 +17
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 167 154 185
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.13% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 3.03% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 117 144
10th Percentile £428 £400 £388
25th Percentile £550 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £575 £690
Median % change year-on-year +16.74% -16.67% +6.15%
75th Percentile £774 £763 £825
90th Percentile £888 £850 £921
England median daily rate £551 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.17% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £74.58 £30.65 £43.25
25th Percentile £85.94 £35.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -15.24% -10.64%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £56.15 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +100.00%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,462 5,083 5,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.07% 37.32% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 3,351 3,850
10th Percentile £357 £335 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £795 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 117 80
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.75 £27.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -8.65% -13.99%
75th Percentile £59.12 £45.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.56% -33.68% +11.76%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the London region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Central London -31 10 £705 +13.94% 31
West London -13 9 £650 +23.81% 11
East London +3 1 £432 -35.04% 4
South London -19 1 £650 +4.00%
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.80%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.59%) ProductWriter
1 6 (3.59%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 2 (1.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.16%) AWS
2 31 (18.56%) Azure
3 30 (17.96%) GCP
4 15 (8.98%) GitHub
5 6 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.59%) Google Gemini
6 5 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.99%) Dagster
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (2.40%) Vertex AI
8 3 (1.80%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.80%) dbt
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.20%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.59%) HTTP
2 6 (3.59%) Multicast
3 4 (2.40%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.80%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.80%) DNS
4 3 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.80%) Firewall
4 3 (1.80%) Network Security
4 3 (1.80%) SSL
4 3 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) DMZ
5 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.79%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.19%) KDB
3 4 (2.40%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.80%) Big Data
4 3 (1.80%) Redis
4 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.20%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Power BI
5 2 (1.20%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Git
2 4 (2.40%) MLflow
3 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) JIRA
4 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.60%) Gradle
5 1 (0.60%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 48 (28.74%) Finance
2 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (18.56%) Banking
4 16 (9.58%) Front Office
4 16 (9.58%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.39%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.39%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.19%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.40%) Aviation
8 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.80%) Law
9 3 (1.80%) Marketing
9 3 (1.80%) Retail
10 2 (1.20%) Advertising
10 2 (1.20%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 43 (25.75%) Developer
2 42 (25.15%) Senior
3 26 (15.57%) Data Scientist
4 16 (9.58%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Senior Developer
6 10 (5.99%) Architect
6 10 (5.99%) Consultant
6 10 (5.99%) Lead
6 10 (5.99%) Quantitative Developer
7 9 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (4.79%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Senior Data Scientist
10 6 (3.59%) Integration Consultant
10 6 (3.59%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 6 (3.59%) SAP Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.38%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (10.18%) React
3 16 (9.58%) scikit-learn
4 13 (7.78%) PyTorch
5 10 (5.99%) Kafka
5 10 (5.99%) Spring
5 10 (5.99%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.99%) TensorFlow
6 9 (5.39%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.39%) Pandas
7 8 (4.79%) LangChain
7 8 (4.79%) Redux
7 8 (4.79%) WebSockets
8 7 (4.19%) LangGraph
8 7 (4.19%) Vue
9 6 (3.59%) Backbone.js
9 6 (3.59%) Electron
9 6 (3.59%) NumPy
9 6 (3.59%) OpenFin
9 6 (3.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.34%) Data Structures
2 36 (21.56%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (13.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (10.18%) Derivative
5 12 (7.19%) AI Agents
6 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
7 10 (5.99%) Cloud Native
7 10 (5.99%) Equities
8 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.40%) Exotic Derivative
9 4 (2.40%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.80%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.80%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.20%) Robotics
11 2 (1.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Android
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.92%) Machine Learning
2 61 (36.53%) AI
3 45 (26.95%) Computer Science
4 41 (24.55%) Data Science
5 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
6 35 (20.96%) Software Engineering
7 34 (20.36%) Low Latency
8 32 (19.16%) Multithreading
8 32 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (16.17%) Analytics
9 27 (16.17%) Observability
10 26 (15.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (15.57%) Microservices
11 24 (14.37%) Mathematics
12 23 (13.77%) Containerisation
13 22 (13.17%) Agile
14 21 (12.57%) Electronic Trading
15 18 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (10.78%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (10.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (46.11%) Python
2 53 (31.74%) Java
3 41 (24.55%) SQL
4 20 (11.98%) TypeScript
5 19 (11.38%) JavaScript
6 17 (10.18%) C++
7 15 (8.98%) C#
8 12 (7.19%) Rust
9 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
10 7 (4.19%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.99%) R
12 4 (2.40%) Scala
13 3 (1.80%) Go
13 3 (1.80%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.60%) Bash
14 1 (0.60%) DAML
14 1 (0.60%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.60%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 39 (23.35%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.19%) Master's Degree
4 12 (7.19%) PhD
5 8 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.80%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.20%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.79%) OpenAI
2 8 (4.79%) Solace
3 7 (4.19%) Databricks
3 7 (4.19%) Google
4 6 (3.59%) IFS
4 6 (3.59%) SAP
5 3 (1.80%) F5
6 2 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.20%) Charles River
6 2 (1.20%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.20%) IBM
6 2 (1.20%) Splunk
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) Botify
7 1 (0.60%) Calypso
7 1 (0.60%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.60%) Murex