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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 203 233
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 +1
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 164 161 178
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.16% 1.15% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.05% 3.34% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 113 125
10th Percentile £379 £378 £413
25th Percentile £459 £454 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £655
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.58% -10.27%
75th Percentile £1,050 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,120 £875 £920
England median daily rate £550 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £41.73 - £42.50
25th Percentile £42.44 £51.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £44.75 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £46.94 £53.75 £64.02
90th Percentile £47.58 - £68.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +1.13%

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 5,370 4,815 6,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.06% 34.29% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,480 3,056 4,293
10th Percentile £350 £325 £315
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £800 £847 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 60 122
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.93 £17.02
25th Percentile £20.62 £24.62 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.25 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -25.39% +19.05% -2.12%
75th Percentile £47.00 £61.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.85 £81.00 £64.95
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
% change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%

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 11 January 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
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 11 January 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 -6 27 £638 +2.00% 36
South London - 6 £750 - 3
West London - 3 £525 - 8
North London - 1 - - 3
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 (5.49%) Jupyter
2 7 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.83%) Apache
3 3 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.83%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.61%) Actimize
2 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.61%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.90%) AWS
2 28 (17.07%) Azure
3 14 (8.54%) GCP
4 13 (7.93%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.49%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (4.27%) Amazon SageMaker
6 7 (4.27%) Vertex AI
7 5 (3.05%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.44%) GitHub
8 4 (2.44%) Serverless
9 3 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.83%) PaaS
10 2 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.22%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.22%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.22%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.22%) IBM Watson
10 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) SSL
2 2 (1.22%) SNMP
2 2 (1.22%) SSH
3 1 (0.61%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.15%) KDB
2 14 (8.54%) Kdb+
3 12 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.71%) Power BI
5 9 (5.49%) Big Data
6 8 (4.88%) Tableau
7 6 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.66%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.44%) DB2
8 4 (2.44%) MemSQL
8 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.44%) Sybase IQ
9 3 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.83%) Spatial Data
10 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.22%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.22%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (6.10%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.66%) JIRA
3 5 (3.05%) QUnit
4 3 (1.83%) GitLab
4 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.22%) GoCD
5 2 (1.22%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.61%) Gradle
6 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.61%) JUnit
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 49 (29.88%) Finance
2 44 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.17%) Front Office
4 34 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.76%) Banking
6 6 (3.66%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.66%) Retail
7 5 (3.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.44%) Marketing
8 4 (2.44%) Publishing
9 2 (1.22%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Police
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (49.39%) Developer
2 22 (13.41%) Senior
3 21 (12.80%) Data Scientist
4 20 (12.20%) Python Developer
5 19 (11.59%) C++ Developer
5 19 (11.59%) Quantitative Developer
6 18 (10.98%) Java Developer
7 15 (9.15%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.71%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 11 (6.71%) Linux Developer
8 11 (6.71%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 10 (6.10%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Analyst
10 8 (4.88%) Lead
10 8 (4.88%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (4.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 6 (3.66%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 5 (3.05%) KDB Developer
13 5 (3.05%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.80%) scikit-learn
2 20 (12.20%) FIX Protocol
3 14 (8.54%) Pandas
3 14 (8.54%) TensorFlow
4 13 (7.93%) PyTorch
5 10 (6.10%) Matplotlib
5 10 (6.10%) XGBoost
6 9 (5.49%) NumPy
7 8 (4.88%) React
7 8 (4.88%) REST
8 6 (3.66%) HTML
8 6 (3.66%) XML
9 5 (3.05%) CSS
10 4 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.44%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.44%) JSON
10 4 (2.44%) Seaborn
10 4 (2.44%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (1.83%) Dask
11 3 (1.83%) LightGBM
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.05%) Data Structures
2 24 (14.63%) Equities
3 22 (13.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (11.59%) Derivative
4 19 (11.59%) Fixed Income
5 18 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (6.71%) Equity Derivative
7 10 (6.10%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.88%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.44%) Replication
12 3 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.83%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.83%) PKI
13 2 (1.22%) Educational Technology
13 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.46%) Linux
2 12 (7.32%) Unix
3 2 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.61%) Android
4 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.85%) Machine Learning
2 46 (28.05%) Data Science
3 44 (26.83%) Computer Science
3 44 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (23.78%) Analytics
5 38 (23.17%) AI
5 38 (23.17%) Mathematics
6 33 (20.12%) Low Latency
7 28 (17.07%) Agile
7 28 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 28 (17.07%) Multithreading
7 28 (17.07%) Risk Management
8 25 (15.24%) Decision-Making
9 23 (14.02%) Quantitative Finance
9 23 (14.02%) Visualisation
10 22 (13.41%) Data Engineering
10 22 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (13.41%) Natural Language Processing
11 21 (12.80%) Data Analysis
12 18 (10.98%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 101 (61.59%) Python
2 37 (22.56%) SQL
3 31 (18.90%) Java
4 27 (16.46%) C++
5 15 (9.15%) C#
6 12 (7.32%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.27%) Bash
7 7 (4.27%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.05%) R
8 5 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.44%) Go
10 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.22%) Rust
10 2 (1.22%) VBA
10 2 (1.22%) VC++
11 1 (0.61%) Cypher
11 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (21.95%) Degree
2 13 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.32%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (6.71%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.49%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.27%) PhD
6 7 (4.27%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.83%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.22%) CEH
8 2 (1.22%) CISSP
8 2 (1.22%) MCP
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) QA
2 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.83%) SLA
4 2 (1.22%) EMIR
4 2 (1.22%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.22%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.22%) NIST
4 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 9 (5.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.61%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.49%) Terraform
3 4 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.44%) Kibana
3 4 (2.44%) logstash
4 2 (1.22%) Grafana
4 2 (1.22%) rkt
5 1 (0.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.66%) Google
2 6 (3.66%) Splunk
3 5 (3.05%) Solace
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle
4 4 (2.44%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.83%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.22%) Cognos
6 2 (1.22%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.22%) Foundry
6 2 (1.22%) IBM
6 2 (1.22%) Sage
6 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.22%) Thales
7 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.61%) Charles River
7 1 (0.61%) Cribl.io
7 1 (0.61%) Databricks
7 1 (0.61%) SAP