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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 217 203
Rank change year-on-year -54 -14 +22
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 149 137 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.13% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.26% 3.14% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 104 151
10th Percentile £454 £413 £425
25th Percentile £513 £520 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £788 £778 £819
90th Percentile £920 £850 £950
England median daily rate £550 £628 £581
% change year-on-year -12.35% +7.96% -1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £71.85 £30.65 £41.50
25th Percentile £86.25 £35.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -19.09% +100.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £56.15 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% +150.00%

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 6,590 4,368 5,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.71% 36.10% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,194 2,915 4,095
10th Percentile £358 £336 £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 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 86 146
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
25th Percentile £22.66 £22.74 £19.40
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +19.44% -21.23%
75th Percentile £61.38 £48.44 £50.63
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £36.27
% change year-on-year +27.42% -4.89% +61.32%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 - 15 £650 - 6
Central London -19 14 £705 +15.10% 35
South London -15 2 £556 -11.00% 3
East London -5 1 £432 -35.04% 6
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 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.01%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) Solana
Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.67%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.70%) ProductWriter
2 6 (4.03%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (2.01%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.46%) AWS
2 18 (12.08%) Azure
3 13 (8.72%) GCP
4 8 (5.37%) Dagster
5 7 (4.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub
6 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.36%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.01%) dbt
9 3 (2.01%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.34%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.34%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.34%) Serverless
11 1 (0.67%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.71%) HTTP
2 6 (4.03%) Multicast
3 4 (2.68%) HTTPS
3 4 (2.68%) SSL
4 3 (2.01%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.01%) DNS
4 3 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.01%) Firewall
4 3 (2.01%) Network Security
4 3 (2.01%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.67%) DMZ
5 1 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.70%) KDB
1 7 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.36%) Power BI
3 4 (2.68%) Big Data
3 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.01%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.34%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.34%) Tableau
5 2 (1.34%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.67%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.67%) Power Query
6 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) Git
2 5 (3.36%) MLflow
3 2 (1.34%) Gradle
3 2 (1.34%) JUnit
3 2 (1.34%) Maven
3 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.67%) Ant
4 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 35 (23.49%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (22.82%) Finance
3 32 (21.48%) Social Skills
4 31 (20.81%) Banking
5 22 (14.77%) Front Office
6 18 (12.08%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.70%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.03%) Aviation
9 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.01%) Retail
11 2 (1.34%) Advertising
11 2 (1.34%) Electronics
11 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.34%) Marketing
11 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (33.56%) Developer
2 34 (22.82%) Senior
3 24 (16.11%) Data Scientist
4 16 (10.74%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.38%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.71%) Architect
6 10 (6.71%) C++ Developer
6 10 (6.71%) Quantitative Developer
7 9 (6.04%) Consultant
7 9 (6.04%) Lead
8 8 (5.37%) Python Developer
9 7 (4.70%) Senior Data Scientist
9 7 (4.70%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 6 (4.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (4.03%) SAP Integration Consultant
10 6 (4.03%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.77%) FIX Protocol
2 20 (13.42%) scikit-learn
3 16 (10.74%) PyTorch
4 14 (9.40%) TensorFlow
5 11 (7.38%) Pandas
6 9 (6.04%) React
6 9 (6.04%) Spring
6 9 (6.04%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.37%) Kafka
7 8 (5.37%) NumPy
8 7 (4.70%) REST
8 7 (4.70%) WebSockets
9 6 (4.03%) Ultra Messaging
10 5 (3.36%) Electron
10 5 (3.36%) LangChain
10 5 (3.36%) Middleware
10 5 (3.36%) OpenFin
10 5 (3.36%) Seaborn
10 5 (3.36%) XGBoost
11 4 (2.68%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.48%) Data Structures
2 28 (18.79%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (14.09%) Equities
4 19 (12.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (12.08%) Derivative
6 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.70%) AI Agents
8 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (3.36%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (2.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.68%) Fixed Income
11 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
11 3 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.34%) Exotic Derivative
12 2 (1.34%) IoT
12 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.34%) OTC Derivatives
12 2 (1.34%) PKI
12 2 (1.34%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.34%) Unix
2 2 (1.34%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Android
3 1 (0.67%) Solaris
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (39.60%) Machine Learning
2 47 (31.54%) AI
3 38 (25.50%) Data Science
4 36 (24.16%) CI/CD
5 34 (22.82%) Low Latency
6 33 (22.15%) Multithreading
7 32 (21.48%) Analytics
7 32 (21.48%) Computer Science
8 24 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.44%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (15.44%) Electronic Trading
10 21 (14.09%) Mathematics
10 21 (14.09%) Test Automation
11 20 (13.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (12.08%) Containerisation
12 18 (12.08%) Natural Language Processing
13 17 (11.41%) Microservices
13 17 (11.41%) Observability
13 17 (11.41%) Software Engineering
14 16 (10.74%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 78 (52.35%) Python
2 37 (24.83%) Java
2 37 (24.83%) SQL
3 20 (13.42%) C++
4 15 (10.07%) TypeScript
5 14 (9.40%) C#
6 9 (6.04%) Rust
7 8 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.03%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.01%) R
10 3 (2.01%) Scala
11 2 (1.34%) Bash
11 2 (1.34%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.67%) DAML
12 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.67%) Go
12 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.67%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 30 (20.13%) Degree
2 11 (7.38%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (6.04%) PhD
4 6 (4.03%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.36%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (2.68%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (8.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (6.04%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.68%) Grafana
3 3 (2.01%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.34%) Terraform
5 1 (0.67%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.67%) Istio
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.03%) Databricks
2 6 (4.03%) IFS
2 6 (4.03%) SAP
2 6 (4.03%) Solace
3 5 (3.36%) Google
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle
5 3 (2.01%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.01%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.01%) Charles River
5 3 (2.01%) F5
5 3 (2.01%) ION Trading
5 3 (2.01%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.01%) Splunk
6 2 (1.34%) IBM
7 1 (0.67%) Adobe
7 1 (0.67%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.67%) Cognos
7 1 (0.67%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.67%) Sage