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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 222 208
Rank change year-on-year -56 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 157 152 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.12% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.02% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 116 150
10th Percentile £445 £401 £425
25th Percentile £536 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £606 £680
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -10.85% +4.62%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £825
90th Percentile £888 £850 £950
England median daily rate £550 £569 £588
% change year-on-year -3.30% -3.19% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £74.58 £30.65 £41.25
25th Percentile £85.94 £35.38 £46.50
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -19.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £56.15 £65.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +147.19%

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 7,302 5,031 5,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.71% 37.10% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,577 3,316 4,060
10th Percentile £352 £338 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 109 122
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.55
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £21.23
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.50 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -1.86% -14.11%
75th Percentile £63.00 £45.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.11 £71.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -17.50% +14.29%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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
West London +1 14 £650 +23.81% 10
Central London -29 11 £705 +13.94% 14
East London +2 1 £432 -35.04% 4
South London -17 1 £650 +4.00% 2
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 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.91%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.64%) IIS
5 1 (0.64%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.64%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) ProductWriter
2 6 (3.82%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.27%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.27%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.38%) AWS
2 25 (15.92%) Azure
3 18 (11.46%) GCP
4 12 (7.64%) GitHub
5 8 (5.10%) Dagster
5 8 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.46%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (3.18%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.91%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.91%) dbt
9 3 (1.91%) Google Gemini
9 3 (1.91%) Serverless
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.01%) HTTP
2 6 (3.82%) Multicast
3 4 (2.55%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.91%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.91%) DNS
4 3 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.91%) Firewall
4 3 (1.91%) Network Security
4 3 (1.91%) SSL
4 3 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.64%) DMZ
5 1 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.64%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.46%) KDB
2 6 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.55%) Big Data
3 4 (2.55%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.55%) Power BI
4 3 (1.91%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.91%) Redis
5 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.27%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.27%) Tableau
5 2 (1.27%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.64%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.64%) Power Query
6 1 (0.64%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (7.64%) Git
2 6 (3.82%) MLflow
3 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.64%) Ant
5 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.64%) Gradle
5 1 (0.64%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.64%) JUnit
5 1 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.64%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.64%) webpack
General
1 41 (26.11%) Finance
2 37 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (22.93%) Social Skills
4 34 (21.66%) Banking
5 18 (11.46%) Front Office
5 18 (11.46%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.18%) Aviation
6 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.91%) Law
8 3 (1.91%) Marketing
8 3 (1.91%) Retail
9 2 (1.27%) Advertising
9 2 (1.27%) Electronics
9 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (28.03%) Developer
2 42 (26.75%) Senior
3 27 (17.20%) Data Scientist
4 15 (9.55%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.01%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.37%) Consultant
6 10 (6.37%) Lead
7 9 (5.73%) Architect
7 9 (5.73%) Quantitative Developer
7 9 (5.73%) Senior Data Scientist
8 8 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.82%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 6 (3.82%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (3.82%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.74%) scikit-learn
2 19 (12.10%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (9.55%) PyTorch
4 13 (8.28%) Pandas
5 12 (7.64%) TensorFlow
6 11 (7.01%) React
7 10 (6.37%) Kafka
7 10 (6.37%) NumPy
7 10 (6.37%) Spring
7 10 (6.37%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.10%) WebSockets
9 6 (3.82%) Electron
9 6 (3.82%) LangChain
9 6 (3.82%) OpenFin
9 6 (3.82%) PySpark
9 6 (3.82%) REST
9 6 (3.82%) Ultra Messaging
10 5 (3.18%) Hugging Face
10 5 (3.18%) Seaborn
11 4 (2.55%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 41 (26.11%) Data Structures
2 31 (19.75%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (12.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (9.55%) Derivative
5 11 (7.01%) Equities
5 11 (7.01%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.73%) AI Agents
7 7 (4.46%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.55%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.91%) Exotic Derivative
9 3 (1.91%) OTC Derivatives
9 3 (1.91%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.27%) Linux
1 2 (1.27%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Android
2 1 (0.64%) Unix
2 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (40.13%) Machine Learning
2 54 (34.39%) AI
3 43 (27.39%) Data Science
4 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
5 38 (24.20%) Computer Science
6 34 (21.66%) Multithreading
7 33 (21.02%) Low Latency
8 30 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (17.83%) Analytics
10 26 (16.56%) Software Engineering
11 23 (14.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (14.65%) Observability
12 22 (14.01%) Data Pipeline
12 22 (14.01%) Electronic Trading
12 22 (14.01%) Microservices
13 21 (13.38%) Containerisation
14 18 (11.46%) Mathematics
15 17 (10.83%) LLM
15 17 (10.83%) Performance Optimisation
15 17 (10.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (45.86%) Python
2 44 (28.03%) Java
3 43 (27.39%) SQL
4 20 (12.74%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.55%) C#
5 15 (9.55%) C++
6 12 (7.64%) Rust
7 9 (5.73%) PowerShell
8 8 (5.10%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.46%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.55%) R
11 3 (1.91%) Go
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
11 3 (1.91%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.64%) Bash
12 1 (0.64%) DAML
12 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.64%) Ruby
12 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.64%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 31 (19.75%) Degree
2 12 (7.64%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.10%) PhD
5 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.46%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.18%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.91%) QA
3 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (10.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.91%) Terraform
3 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.64%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.64%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.46%) Databricks
2 7 (4.46%) Solace
3 6 (3.82%) IFS
3 6 (3.82%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.82%) SAP
4 5 (3.18%) Google
5 4 (2.55%) IBM
6 3 (1.91%) Duck Creek
6 3 (1.91%) F5
6 3 (1.91%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.27%) Charles River
7 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle
7 2 (1.27%) Splunk
8 1 (0.64%) Adobe
8 1 (0.64%) Cognos
8 1 (0.64%) Murex