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 8 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 224 197
Rank change year-on-year -32 -27 +34
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 165 126 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.00% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.64% 2.78% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 85 146
10th Percentile £429 £400 £414
25th Percentile £504 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% -12.07%
75th Percentile £888 £825 £809
90th Percentile £1,050 £875 £950
England median daily rate £550 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 19
10th Percentile £43.15 £44.85 £42.25
25th Percentile £46.00 £47.25 £47.13
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £56.25 £63.52
90th Percentile - £57.75 £68.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +109.52%

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 6,243 4,533 5,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.09% 35.80% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,036 3,057 4,193
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 76 163
10th Percentile £17.50 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.89 £23.75 £18.86
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.75 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +24.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.44 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.05 £80.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.00 £28.13
% change year-on-year +36.36% +17.33% +25.00%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -16 21 £575 -4.17% 47
West London - 11 £650 - 12
South London - 3 £556 - 2
East London -5 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 12 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.24%) Jupyter
3 6 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.61%) Solana
Applications
1 15 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.61%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.42%) Fidessa
1 4 (2.42%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.21%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.61%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 43 (26.06%) AWS
2 27 (16.36%) Azure
3 18 (10.91%) GCP
4 14 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.06%) Amazon SageMaker
6 9 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.85%) Dagster
7 8 (4.85%) Vertex AI
8 7 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.64%) GitHub
9 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.42%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.42%) Serverless
11 3 (1.82%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.82%) dbt
11 3 (1.82%) IBM Watson
12 2 (1.21%) Google Gemini
12 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.03%) HTTP
2 4 (2.42%) SSL
3 3 (1.82%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.82%) DNS
3 3 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.82%) Firewall
3 3 (1.82%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.82%) Multicast
3 3 (1.82%) Network Security
3 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.27%) Power BI
2 9 (5.45%) KDB
3 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.24%) Tableau
4 6 (3.64%) Big Data
4 6 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.03%) Kdb+
5 5 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.82%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.82%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.21%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.61%) Redis
8 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.48%) Git
2 6 (3.64%) MLflow
3 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.21%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) Gradle
4 2 (1.21%) JUnit
4 2 (1.21%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) Ant
5 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.61%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.61%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 43 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
2 42 (25.45%) Finance
3 40 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 30 (18.18%) Front Office
5 24 (14.55%) Banking
6 10 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.64%) Aviation
8 6 (3.64%) Retail
9 5 (3.03%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.82%) Electronics
11 3 (1.82%) Marketing
11 3 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.82%) Publishing
12 2 (1.21%) Advertising
12 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.21%) Legal
12 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.21%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (44.24%) Developer
2 32 (19.39%) Senior
3 28 (16.97%) Data Scientist
4 22 (13.33%) Python Developer
5 20 (12.12%) C++ Developer
6 19 (11.52%) Java Developer
7 17 (10.30%) Quantitative Developer
8 15 (9.09%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.27%) Lead
10 11 (6.67%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 11 (6.67%) Linux Developer
10 11 (6.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Senior C++ Developer
12 7 (4.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.64%) Architect
14 5 (3.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 5 (3.03%) Low Latency Java Developer
14 5 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.18%) scikit-learn
2 22 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
3 21 (12.73%) PyTorch
4 19 (11.52%) TensorFlow
5 17 (10.30%) Pandas
6 13 (7.88%) NumPy
7 10 (6.06%) React
7 10 (6.06%) REST
8 9 (5.45%) Matplotlib
8 9 (5.45%) XGBoost
9 8 (4.85%) Kafka
9 8 (4.85%) Seaborn
9 8 (4.85%) Spring
9 8 (4.85%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.64%) Middleware
11 5 (3.03%) HTML
11 5 (3.03%) LangChain
11 5 (3.03%) Node.js
12 4 (2.42%) .NET
12 4 (2.42%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.88%) Data Structures
2 33 (20.00%) Equities
3 27 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (12.12%) Derivative
6 11 (6.67%) Equity Derivative
7 9 (5.45%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.64%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.42%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.21%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.21%) IoT
11 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.09%) Linux
2 7 (4.24%) Unix
3 2 (1.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Android
4 1 (0.61%) Solaris
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.61%) Machine Learning
2 53 (32.12%) AI
3 44 (26.67%) Data Science
4 42 (25.45%) Analytics
5 40 (24.24%) Computer Science
6 39 (23.64%) CI/CD
7 37 (22.42%) Low Latency
8 36 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (20.61%) Multithreading
10 30 (18.18%) Mathematics
11 28 (16.97%) Agile
12 27 (16.36%) Test Automation
13 26 (15.76%) Data Engineering
13 26 (15.76%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (14.55%) Natural Language Processing
15 23 (13.94%) Electronic Trading
16 22 (13.33%) Statistics
17 21 (12.73%) Data Analysis
17 21 (12.73%) Risk Management
18 20 (12.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (62.42%) Python
2 43 (26.06%) SQL
3 40 (24.24%) Java
4 28 (16.97%) C++
5 15 (9.09%) C#
6 11 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.85%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.03%) Bash
10 3 (1.82%) Go
10 3 (1.82%) Rust
11 2 (1.21%) R
11 2 (1.21%) Scala
12 1 (0.61%) DAML
12 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.61%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 37 (22.42%) Degree
2 13 (7.88%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.67%) Numerate Degree
4 10 (6.06%) PhD
5 8 (4.85%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.64%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.06%) QA
2 5 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.82%) SLA
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (7.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.61%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.85%) Terraform
3 5 (3.03%) Grafana
4 3 (1.82%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.85%) Google
3 5 (3.03%) Databricks
3 5 (3.03%) Solace
4 4 (2.42%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.42%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.42%) Charles River
4 4 (2.42%) IBM
4 4 (2.42%) ION Trading
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle
4 4 (2.42%) Splunk
5 3 (1.82%) Cognos
5 3 (1.82%) F5
5 3 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.82%) Sage
5 3 (1.82%) SAP
6 2 (1.21%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.21%) IFS
7 1 (0.61%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.61%) Guidewire