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 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 242 206
Rank change year-on-year +9 -36 +35
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 171 121 208
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.06% 0.93% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 2.68% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 82 146
10th Percentile £400 £382 £425
25th Percentile £500 £450 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £619 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -4.81% -10.34%
75th Percentile £963 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,050 £875 £950
England median daily rate £574 £609 £590
% change year-on-year -5.75% +3.22% -6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 20
10th Percentile £42.20 £51.75 £42.38
25th Percentile £43.63 £52.50 £45.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £49.38 £57.50 £63.01
90th Percentile £50.20 £58.25 £68.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

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 5,929 4,519 5,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.80% 34.84% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,859 2,976 4,213
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 68 181
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.02 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.88 £35.70 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +23.09% -17.14%
75th Percentile £57.00 £57.81 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.50 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% +33.33%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 25 £625 +28.87% 32
West London - 8 £648 - 21
South London - 4 £600 - 9
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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.68%) Jupyter
3 6 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.17%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.34%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.75%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.58%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.32%) AWS
2 31 (18.13%) Azure
3 15 (8.77%) GCP
4 14 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.85%) Amazon SageMaker
5 10 (5.85%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.68%) Vertex AI
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.51%) Dagster
8 6 (3.51%) GitHub
8 6 (3.51%) Serverless
9 5 (2.92%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.75%) IBM Watson
11 3 (1.75%) PaaS
12 2 (1.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.02%) Power BI
2 11 (6.43%) KDB
2 11 (6.43%) Kdb+
3 9 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.09%) Tableau
5 6 (3.51%) Big Data
5 6 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.92%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.75%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.75%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.17%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.17%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) Git
2 4 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.34%) MLflow
3 3 (1.75%) QUnit
3 3 (1.75%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.75%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.17%) GitLab
4 2 (1.17%) GoCD
4 2 (1.17%) Gradle
4 2 (1.17%) JUnit
4 2 (1.17%) Maven
4 2 (1.17%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.58%) Ant
5 1 (0.58%) JIRA
5 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.58%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 46 (26.90%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.32%) Finance
3 41 (23.98%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (21.05%) Front Office
5 21 (12.28%) Banking
6 8 (4.68%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.09%) Retail
8 5 (2.92%) Marketing
9 4 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Legal
9 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Publishing
10 3 (1.75%) Aviation
11 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.17%) Law
11 2 (1.17%) Police
11 2 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 81 (47.37%) Developer
2 30 (17.54%) Senior
3 29 (16.96%) Data Scientist
4 22 (12.87%) Python Developer
5 21 (12.28%) Quantitative Developer
6 20 (11.70%) C++ Developer
7 15 (8.77%) Java Developer
7 15 (8.77%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.02%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Linux Developer
8 12 (7.02%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 11 (6.43%) Lead
10 9 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Senior C++ Developer
12 7 (4.09%) Architect
12 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Low Latency Java Developer
15 4 (2.34%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.79%) scikit-learn
2 23 (13.45%) PyTorch
3 22 (12.87%) TensorFlow
4 18 (10.53%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (9.36%) Pandas
6 13 (7.60%) NumPy
7 11 (6.43%) React
7 11 (6.43%) REST
8 9 (5.26%) Matplotlib
8 9 (5.26%) XGBoost
9 8 (4.68%) Kafka
10 7 (4.09%) HTML
10 7 (4.09%) Seaborn
11 6 (3.51%) .NET
11 6 (3.51%) LangChain
11 6 (3.51%) Middleware
12 5 (2.92%) CSS
13 4 (2.34%) JMS
13 4 (2.34%) Node.js
13 4 (2.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.24%) Data Structures
2 29 (16.96%) Equities
3 22 (12.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 19 (11.11%) Derivative
4 19 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (9.94%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.43%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.68%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.09%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 2 (1.17%) Clustering
13 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
14 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
14 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.87%) Linux
2 10 (5.85%) Unix
3 2 (1.17%) Android
3 2 (1.17%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.58%) Solaris
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (43.27%) Machine Learning
2 53 (30.99%) AI
3 51 (29.82%) Data Science
4 44 (25.73%) Analytics
5 43 (25.15%) Computer Science
6 41 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 35 (20.47%) Mathematics
9 32 (18.71%) Low Latency
10 31 (18.13%) Agile
11 29 (16.96%) Multithreading
12 28 (16.37%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (15.79%) Data Engineering
13 27 (15.79%) Risk Management
14 26 (15.20%) Data Analysis
14 26 (15.20%) Natural Language Processing
14 26 (15.20%) Test Automation
15 22 (12.87%) Generative AI
15 22 (12.87%) Statistics
16 21 (12.28%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 111 (64.91%) Python
2 44 (25.73%) SQL
3 34 (19.88%) Java
4 26 (15.20%) C++
5 14 (8.19%) C#
6 8 (4.68%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.68%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.09%) Bash
7 7 (4.09%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.51%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.92%) Go
9 5 (2.92%) R
10 2 (1.17%) Rust
10 2 (1.17%) Scala
11 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 37 (21.64%) Degree
2 12 (7.02%) Master's Degree
2 12 (7.02%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (6.43%) PhD
4 10 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.26%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.09%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) GIAC
8 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.85%) QA
2 4 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.75%) SLA
4 2 (1.17%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.17%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (8.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.85%) Terraform
3 5 (2.92%) Grafana
4 2 (1.17%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.17%) rkt
5 1 (0.58%) Ansible
5 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.58%) Kibana
5 1 (0.58%) logstash
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (6.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.68%) Google
3 6 (3.51%) Splunk
4 4 (2.34%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.34%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.34%) Charles River
4 4 (2.34%) Databricks
4 4 (2.34%) IBM
4 4 (2.34%) ION Trading
4 4 (2.34%) Oracle
4 4 (2.34%) Solace
5 3 (1.75%) Cognos
5 3 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.75%) Sage
6 2 (1.17%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.17%) Foundry
6 2 (1.17%) IFS
7 1 (0.58%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.58%) Guidewire