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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 232 190
Rank change year-on-year -3 -42 +46
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 172 114 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 0.90% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.83% 2.53% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 77 153
10th Percentile £431 £392 £425
25th Percentile £506 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £903 £800 £825
90th Percentile £1,050 £875 £950
England median daily rate £568 £625 £620
% change year-on-year -9.20% +0.81% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 20
10th Percentile £42.20 £44.85 £42.38
25th Percentile £43.63 £47.25 £45.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £49.38 £56.25 £63.01
90th Percentile £50.20 £57.75 £68.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% +2.27% +29.41%

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 6,080 4,500 5,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.61% 35.51% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,943 3,014 4,200
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 £725 £712
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -5.70% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 73 167
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.20 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.41 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +18.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £59.32 £56.25 £48.29
90th Percentile £76.05 £80.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £40.50 £34.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +19.12% +23.64% +17.17%

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 24 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 24 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 -5 23 £588 +7.31% 48
West London - 10 £650 - 13
South London - 3 £556 - 2
East London -7 1 £432 +8.00% 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 11 (6.40%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.07%) Jupyter
3 6 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.58%) Solana
Applications
1 15 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.33%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.74%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.58%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 44 (25.58%) AWS
2 29 (16.86%) Azure
3 17 (9.88%) GCP
4 14 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.40%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.65%) Dagster
7 8 (4.65%) Vertex AI
8 7 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.49%) GitHub
9 6 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.33%) Serverless
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.74%) IBM Watson
13 2 (1.16%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (1.16%) Google Gemini
13 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) Multicast
2 2 (1.16%) HTTP
2 2 (1.16%) SSL
3 1 (0.58%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) KDB
1 12 (6.98%) Power BI
2 10 (5.81%) Kdb+
3 9 (5.23%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.07%) Tableau
5 6 (3.49%) Big Data
5 6 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.74%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.74%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (9.30%) Git
2 6 (3.49%) MLflow
3 4 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.74%) QUnit
4 3 (1.74%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.74%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.16%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) GoCD
5 2 (1.16%) Gradle
5 2 (1.16%) JUnit
5 2 (1.16%) Maven
5 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.58%) Ant
6 1 (0.58%) JIRA
6 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.58%) Selenium
6 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.58%) webpack
General
1 45 (26.16%) Finance
2 44 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 42 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (20.93%) Front Office
5 24 (13.95%) Banking
6 10 (5.81%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.07%) Retail
9 5 (2.91%) Aviation
9 5 (2.91%) Marketing
10 4 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.33%) Legal
10 4 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.33%) Publishing
11 3 (1.74%) Electronics
11 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Law
12 2 (1.16%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (47.67%) Developer
2 33 (19.19%) Senior
3 29 (16.86%) Data Scientist
4 23 (13.37%) Python Developer
5 21 (12.21%) C++ Developer
6 20 (11.63%) Quantitative Developer
7 17 (9.88%) Java Developer
7 17 (9.88%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.98%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 12 (6.98%) Linux Developer
8 12 (6.98%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 11 (6.40%) Lead
10 8 (4.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Senior Data Scientist
12 6 (3.49%) Architect
13 5 (2.91%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Low Latency Java Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.86%) scikit-learn
2 21 (12.21%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (11.63%) PyTorch
3 20 (11.63%) TensorFlow
4 17 (9.88%) Pandas
5 14 (8.14%) NumPy
6 11 (6.40%) REST
7 10 (5.81%) React
8 9 (5.23%) Kafka
8 9 (5.23%) Matplotlib
8 9 (5.23%) XGBoost
9 8 (4.65%) Seaborn
10 6 (3.49%) Middleware
10 6 (3.49%) Spring
10 6 (3.49%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.91%) HTML
11 5 (2.91%) LangChain
11 5 (2.91%) Node.js
12 4 (2.33%) .NET
12 4 (2.33%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.07%) Data Structures
2 32 (18.60%) Equities
3 25 (14.53%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (12.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (11.05%) Derivative
6 14 (8.14%) Fixed Income
7 11 (6.40%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.91%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.16%) AI Agents
12 2 (1.16%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (1.16%) IoT
12 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
13 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.79%) Linux
2 10 (5.81%) Unix
3 2 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Solaris
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (40.12%) Machine Learning
2 52 (30.23%) AI
3 47 (27.33%) Data Science
4 43 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 41 (23.84%) Analytics
5 41 (23.84%) Computer Science
6 40 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (21.51%) Low Latency
8 32 (18.60%) Mathematics
8 32 (18.60%) Multithreading
9 29 (16.86%) Agile
9 29 (16.86%) Data Engineering
10 28 (16.28%) Test Automation
11 27 (15.70%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (15.12%) Risk Management
13 25 (14.53%) Natural Language Processing
14 24 (13.95%) Data Analysis
15 23 (13.37%) Electronic Trading
15 23 (13.37%) Statistics
16 21 (12.21%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 110 (63.95%) Python
2 46 (26.74%) SQL
3 39 (22.67%) Java
4 28 (16.28%) C++
5 15 (8.72%) C#
6 10 (5.81%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.23%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.07%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.07%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.49%) Bash
10 5 (2.91%) Go
11 4 (2.33%) R
11 4 (2.33%) Rust
12 2 (1.16%) Scala
13 1 (0.58%) DAML
13 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.58%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 37 (21.51%) Degree
2 13 (7.56%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.40%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (5.81%) PhD
5 9 (5.23%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.07%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.81%) QA
2 4 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (9.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.23%) Terraform
3 5 (2.91%) Grafana
4 2 (1.16%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.16%) rkt
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 10 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.65%) Google
3 5 (2.91%) Solace
4 4 (2.33%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.33%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.33%) Charles River
4 4 (2.33%) Databricks
4 4 (2.33%) IBM
4 4 (2.33%) ION Trading
4 4 (2.33%) Oracle
4 4 (2.33%) Splunk
5 3 (1.74%) Cognos
5 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.74%) Sage
6 2 (1.16%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.16%) IFS
7 1 (0.58%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.58%) F5
7 1 (0.58%) Guidewire