Algorithms Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 207 220
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 144 213 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.21% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.98% 3.62% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 159 207
10th Percentile £413 £425 £409
25th Percentile £502 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £775 £794 £860
90th Percentile £850 £915 £960
England median daily rate £580 £575 £599
% change year-on-year +0.87% -3.97% -14.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 3
10th Percentile £30.65 £41.38 £23.25
25th Percentile £35.38 £45.31 £24.38
Median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +100.00% -38.89%
75th Percentile £52.25 £57.50 £59.38
90th Percentile £56.15 £64.25 £77.75
England median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +31.82% +147.19% -50.83%

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 4,829 5,879 9,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.85% 33.36% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,183 4,127 6,536
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £448 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 142 97
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.34 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.40 £27.42 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -21.66% -13.58%
75th Percentile £48.44 £49.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.39 £71.25 £86.32
England median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in London.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in London.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 -4 24 £625 -11.97% 179
South London +1 5 £625 -21.88% 22
East London +14 1 £665 -21.76% 4
West London - 1 £525 - 22
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (11.81%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.39%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Siemens NX
1 1 (0.69%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.44%) Azure
2 18 (12.50%) AWS
3 12 (8.33%) GCP
4 10 (6.94%) GitHub
4 10 (6.94%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.47%) Serverless
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.08%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.39%) dbt
9 2 (1.39%) Matillion
10 1 (0.69%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.08%) HTTP
2 3 (2.08%) Multicast
3 2 (1.39%) SSL
4 1 (0.69%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.03%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.33%) Tableau
3 10 (6.94%) Hadoop
3 10 (6.94%) Power BI
4 6 (4.17%) Big Data
4 6 (4.17%) Geospatial Data
4 6 (4.17%) GIS
5 5 (3.47%) Apache Hive
5 5 (3.47%) KDB
5 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.47%) QGIS
5 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.39%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.39%) DB2
8 2 (1.39%) MemSQL
8 2 (1.39%) MySQL
8 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (22.22%) Git
2 9 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.86%) JIRA
3 7 (4.86%) JUnit
4 6 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.08%) GitLab
5 3 (2.08%) Mocha
5 3 (2.08%) Postman
5 3 (2.08%) Selenium
5 3 (2.08%) TestNG
5 3 (2.08%) TestRail
5 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.08%) WebDriver
5 3 (2.08%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.39%) MLflow
7 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.69%) JBehave
7 1 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 68 (47.22%) Finance
1 68 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 57 (39.58%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (21.53%) Banking
4 25 (17.36%) Front Office
5 18 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 14 (9.72%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (4.86%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.47%) Back Office
10 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.78%) Police
10 4 (2.78%) Retail
11 3 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 55 (38.19%) Developer
2 22 (15.28%) Lead
3 21 (14.58%) Python Developer
4 20 (13.89%) Senior
5 17 (11.81%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.42%) Data Scientist
7 11 (7.64%) Quantitative Developer
8 10 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.86%) Analyst
10 7 (4.86%) Architect
10 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (4.17%) C++ Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Algorithm Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) C++ Software Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Consultant
12 5 (3.47%) Haskell Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.11%) TensorFlow
2 13 (9.03%) REST
3 12 (8.33%) scikit-learn
4 11 (7.64%) Pandas
5 10 (6.94%) PySpark
6 9 (6.25%) CSS
6 9 (6.25%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (6.25%) HTML
7 8 (5.56%) React
8 7 (4.86%) Middleware
9 6 (4.17%) .NET
9 6 (4.17%) Jest
9 6 (4.17%) Node.js
9 6 (4.17%) Play Framework
9 6 (4.17%) PyTorch
10 5 (3.47%) FpML
10 5 (3.47%) GeoPandas
10 5 (3.47%) PostGIS
10 5 (3.47%) SOAP
10 5 (3.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (38.89%) Data Structures
2 12 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.64%) Hedge funds
4 10 (6.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (5.56%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.86%) Derivative
6 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (4.17%) Equities
7 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.47%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.47%) TWAP
8 5 (3.47%) VWAP
9 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.08%) Life Science
9 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.08%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.97%) Linux
2 7 (4.86%) Unix
3 4 (2.78%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (36.81%) Machine Learning
3 47 (32.64%) CI/CD
4 43 (29.86%) Agile
4 43 (29.86%) Computer Science
5 38 (26.39%) Analytics
6 37 (25.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 36 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 35 (24.31%) Data Science
9 25 (17.36%) Mathematics
10 24 (16.67%) OO
11 23 (15.97%) DevOps
12 21 (14.58%) Low Latency
13 19 (13.19%) Algorithmic Trading
14 18 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (12.50%) Design Patterns
14 18 (12.50%) Scrum
14 18 (12.50%) SDLC
14 18 (12.50%) Visualisation
15 16 (11.11%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 92 (63.89%) Python
2 53 (36.81%) SQL
3 33 (22.92%) Java
4 30 (20.83%) C++
5 21 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 13 (9.03%) C#
7 11 (7.64%) R
8 10 (6.94%) Scala
9 8 (5.56%) C
10 7 (4.86%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.47%) Haskell
11 5 (3.47%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.78%) Go
12 4 (2.78%) Rust
12 4 (2.78%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.08%) OCaml
13 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.39%) Bash
14 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 31 (21.53%) Degree
2 20 (13.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (11.81%) Master's Degree
4 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.56%) PhD
5 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.78%) CISM
6 4 (2.78%) CISSP
7 3 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.39%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.39%) GIAC
8 2 (1.39%) SANS
9 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (2.78%) GDPR
2 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.78%) NIST
3 3 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.39%) PMO
5 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.69%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) Ansible
2 2 (1.39%) Kubeflow
2 2 (1.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.69%) Grafana
3 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (9.03%) Databricks
2 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.47%) Oracle
4 3 (2.08%) Duck Creek
4 3 (2.08%) Google
4 3 (2.08%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.39%) Foundry
5 2 (1.39%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.39%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.39%) OutSystems
5 2 (1.39%) Talend
5 2 (1.39%) Temenos
5 2 (1.39%) TikTok
6 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.69%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.69%) Instagram
6 1 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.69%) Reuters
6 1 (0.69%) YouTube