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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 208 204
Rank change year-on-year -78 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 173 166 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.24% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 3.18% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 129 143
10th Percentile £434 £397 £417
25th Percentile £563 £456 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £696 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% -8.73% -10.00%
75th Percentile £745 £750 £800
90th Percentile £850 £914 £891
England median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £85.50 - £47.25
25th Percentile £86.25 £27.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £87.50 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% -42.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £32.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +0.72% +35.61% +28.13%

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 7,724 5,213 5,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.21% 38.92% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,908 3,354 3,503
10th Percentile £354 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -3.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 121 70
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.83 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.82 £26.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +35.17% -19.08% +16.44%
75th Percentile £59.75 £47.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.75 £78.44
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -45.45% +19.49%

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 October 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 8 October 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 -8 12 £725 +38.10% 22
Central London -38 11 £693 +10.80% 60
South London -15 1 £650 -16.13% 3
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 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.73%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.16%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.58%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) ProductWriter
1 4 (2.31%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.16%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.28%) GCP
2 33 (19.08%) Azure
3 29 (16.76%) AWS
4 15 (8.67%) GitHub
5 8 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.89%) Google Gemini
7 4 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.73%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.73%) dbt
8 3 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.73%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.73%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.73%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) HTTP
2 3 (1.73%) Multicast
3 1 (0.58%) DMZ
3 1 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.51%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.47%) Big Data
3 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.31%) KDB
4 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.73%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.73%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.73%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.73%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.73%) Kdb+
5 3 (1.73%) Metadata
5 3 (1.73%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.73%) Power BI
6 2 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.16%) Redis
6 2 (1.16%) Tableau
6 2 (1.16%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 21 (12.14%) Git
2 4 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.73%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) GitLab
4 2 (1.16%) QUnit
5 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.58%) Gradle
5 1 (0.58%) Maven
5 1 (0.58%) MLflow
5 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (32.37%) Finance
2 37 (21.39%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.50%) Banking
4 30 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.09%) Investment Banking
6 11 (6.36%) Front Office
7 8 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.05%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.47%) Automotive
9 6 (3.47%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.31%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.73%) Marketing
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Back Office
12 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Publishing
12 2 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (21.39%) Senior
2 33 (19.08%) Developer
3 22 (12.72%) Data Scientist
4 14 (8.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (7.51%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (6.36%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.20%) Architect
7 9 (5.20%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.20%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.20%) Lead
7 9 (5.20%) Software Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.20%) Software Manager
8 8 (4.62%) Quantitative Developer
8 8 (4.62%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (4.05%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.47%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.94%) React
2 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
2 10 (5.78%) FIX Protocol
2 10 (5.78%) PySpark
2 10 (5.78%) XGBoost
3 9 (5.20%) scikit-learn
4 8 (4.62%) LangChain
4 8 (4.62%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.05%) Redux
5 7 (4.05%) TensorFlow
5 7 (4.05%) Vue
5 7 (4.05%) WebSockets
6 6 (3.47%) Backbone.js
6 6 (3.47%) JSON
6 6 (3.47%) LangGraph
7 5 (2.89%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.89%) Pandas
8 4 (2.31%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.31%) Kafka
8 4 (2.31%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 51 (29.48%) Data Structures
2 33 (19.08%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.25%) Derivative
4 13 (7.51%) AI Agents
5 12 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (6.36%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.05%) Robotics
9 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.89%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.89%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.31%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (2.31%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (2.31%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (1.73%) Equities
12 3 (1.73%) Market Risk
12 3 (1.73%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.05%) Linux
2 6 (3.47%) Unix
3 2 (1.16%) Windows
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.09%) Machine Learning
2 72 (41.62%) AI
3 47 (27.17%) Computer Science
4 44 (25.43%) Data Science
5 42 (24.28%) Software Engineering
6 37 (21.39%) CI/CD
7 36 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (20.23%) Data Pipeline
9 31 (17.92%) Validation
10 29 (16.76%) Analytics
11 26 (15.03%) Low Latency
11 26 (15.03%) Mathematics
12 24 (13.87%) Agile
12 24 (13.87%) Observability
13 21 (12.14%) Code Quality
14 20 (11.56%) Deep Learning
15 19 (10.98%) Multithreading
16 18 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (10.40%) Fraud Detection
16 18 (10.40%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (46.24%) Python
2 54 (31.21%) Java
3 45 (26.01%) SQL
4 28 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.61%) C++
6 15 (8.67%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.94%) Rust
8 11 (6.36%) C#
9 7 (4.05%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.47%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.89%) Scala
12 4 (2.31%) C
12 4 (2.31%) R
13 3 (1.73%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.73%) SPARQL
14 2 (1.16%) Go
14 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.58%) Bash
15 1 (0.58%) PHP
15 1 (0.58%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (26.59%) Degree
2 19 (10.98%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.67%) Master's Degree
5 14 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.36%) PhD
7 8 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.89%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.16%) CISM
9 2 (1.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.89%) Basel III
3 4 (2.31%) GDPR
3 4 (2.31%) NIST
4 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.73%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.16%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.16%) MISRA
5 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 14 (8.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.73%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.73%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.16%) Podman
4 1 (0.58%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.62%) Databricks
3 7 (4.05%) Google
3 7 (4.05%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.31%) IFS
4 4 (2.31%) SAP
4 4 (2.31%) Solace
5 2 (1.16%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.16%) Duck Creek
5 2 (1.16%) FactSet
5 2 (1.16%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.16%) IBM
5 2 (1.16%) Reuters
5 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.58%) Calypso
6 1 (0.58%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.58%) Murex
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.58%) Pegasus
6 1 (0.58%) Sitecore