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 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 202 216
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 167 171 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.17% 1.16% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 3.39% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 122 133
10th Percentile £369 £382 £412
25th Percentile £443 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -4.11%
75th Percentile £984 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,090 £875 £923
England median daily rate £550 £600 £630
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.76% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £41.73 - £42.50
25th Percentile £42.44 £51.25 £47.50
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 £64.53
90th Percentile £47.58 - £68.90
England median hourly rate £65.50 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +24.76% -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 5,528 5,041 6,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.58% 34.28% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,569 3,205 4,369
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £431 £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 £719
90th Percentile £800 £844 £813
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 63 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.30 £18.74
25th Percentile £20.21 £24.15 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.21 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.13% +16.67% -12.82%
75th Percentile £46.94 £59.75 £49.08
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.43
England median hourly rate £28.13 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.99% -12.94% +28.79%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -1 27 £638 +2.00% 90
South London - 6 £750 - 6
West London - 4 £525 - 3
North London - 1 - -
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%) Jupyter
2 8 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.80%) Apache
3 3 (1.80%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.60%) Actimize
2 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.56%) AWS
2 29 (17.37%) Azure
3 15 (8.98%) GCP
4 13 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.79%) Amazon SageMaker
7 7 (4.19%) Vertex AI
8 6 (3.59%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.40%) GitHub
9 4 (2.40%) Serverless
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.80%) PaaS
11 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) SSL
2 2 (1.20%) SNMP
2 2 (1.20%) SSH
3 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.98%) KDB
2 14 (8.38%) Kdb+
3 12 (7.19%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.59%) Big Data
4 11 (6.59%) Power BI
5 8 (4.79%) Tableau
6 7 (4.19%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.59%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.40%) DB2
8 4 (2.40%) MemSQL
8 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.40%) Sybase IQ
9 3 (1.80%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.80%) Spatial Data
10 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.20%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.20%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Git
2 6 (3.59%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.59%) JIRA
3 5 (2.99%) QUnit
4 4 (2.40%) GitLab
5 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.20%) GoCD
6 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) MLflow
General
1 49 (29.34%) Finance
2 47 (28.14%) Social Skills
3 38 (22.75%) Front Office
4 35 (20.96%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.18%) Banking
6 6 (3.59%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.59%) Retail
7 5 (2.99%) Legal
8 4 (2.40%) Marketing
8 4 (2.40%) Publishing
9 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Aviation
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (47.90%) Developer
2 22 (13.17%) Data Scientist
3 21 (12.57%) Senior
4 20 (11.98%) Python Developer
5 18 (10.78%) Java Developer
5 18 (10.78%) Quantitative Developer
6 17 (10.18%) C++ Developer
7 14 (8.38%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.99%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Linux Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Analyst
10 8 (4.79%) Lead
11 7 (4.19%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior C++ Developer
12 6 (3.59%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 6 (3.59%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.99%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.77%) scikit-learn
2 20 (11.98%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (9.58%) TensorFlow
4 15 (8.98%) Pandas
5 14 (8.38%) PyTorch
6 10 (5.99%) Matplotlib
6 10 (5.99%) NumPy
6 10 (5.99%) XGBoost
7 8 (4.79%) React
7 8 (4.79%) REST
8 6 (3.59%) HTML
8 6 (3.59%) XML
9 5 (2.99%) CSS
9 5 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.40%) JSON
10 4 (2.40%) Seaborn
10 4 (2.40%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (1.80%) Kafka
11 3 (1.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.54%) Data Structures
2 22 (13.17%) Equities
2 22 (13.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (11.38%) Fixed Income
4 18 (10.78%) Derivative
5 17 (10.18%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (6.59%) Product Ownership
7 10 (5.99%) Equity Derivative
8 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.40%) Replication
12 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.80%) PKI
13 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
13 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.97%) Linux
2 12 (7.19%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.11%) Machine Learning
2 48 (28.74%) Data Science
3 44 (26.35%) Computer Science
3 44 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (25.75%) AI
5 39 (23.35%) Analytics
6 37 (22.16%) Mathematics
7 32 (19.16%) Low Latency
8 30 (17.96%) Agile
9 29 (17.37%) CI/CD
10 27 (16.17%) Multithreading
10 27 (16.17%) Risk Management
11 26 (15.57%) Decision-Making
12 25 (14.97%) Visualisation
13 23 (13.77%) Data Engineering
13 23 (13.77%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (13.77%) Natural Language Processing
14 22 (13.17%) Quantitative Finance
15 21 (12.57%) Data Analysis
16 19 (11.38%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 103 (61.68%) Python
2 38 (22.75%) SQL
3 32 (19.16%) Java
4 25 (14.97%) C++
5 16 (9.58%) C#
6 12 (7.19%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.19%) Bash
7 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.99%) R
8 5 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.40%) Go
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) Rust
10 2 (1.20%) VBA
10 2 (1.20%) VC++
11 1 (0.60%) Cypher
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (21.56%) Degree
2 14 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (6.59%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.59%) Numerate Degree
4 8 (4.79%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.19%) PhD
6 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.20%) CEH
8 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 2 (1.20%) MCP
9 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) QA
2 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.80%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) EMIR
4 2 (1.20%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.20%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (4.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.39%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.40%) Kibana
3 4 (2.40%) logstash
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Grafana
4 2 (1.20%) rkt
5 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (8.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.79%) Google
3 6 (3.59%) Splunk
4 5 (2.99%) Solace
5 4 (2.40%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.80%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.20%) Cognos
7 2 (1.20%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.20%) Foundry
7 2 (1.20%) IBM
7 2 (1.20%) Sage
7 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.20%) Thales
8 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.60%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) OpenAI