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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 229 201
Rank change year-on-year +4 -28 +29
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 175 129 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.10% 0.96% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.98% 2.78% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 84 141
10th Percentile £396 £386 £425
25th Percentile £469 £450 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £619 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -4.81% -10.34%
75th Percentile £1,031 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,140 £871 £950
England median daily rate £558 £610 £590
% change year-on-year -8.61% +3.39% -8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 17
10th Percentile £42.20 £51.75 £42.50
25th Percentile £43.63 £52.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £49.38 £57.50 £64.53
90th Percentile £50.20 £58.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.93% -2.27% -1.66%

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 5,865 4,644 6,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.90% 34.61% 32.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,819 2,986 4,232
10th Percentile £350 £319 £300
25th Percentile £437 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £813
England median daily rate £513 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 66 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.45 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.93 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.75 £38.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.71% +44.76% -21.06%
75th Percentile £57.48 £58.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.75 £80.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £32.06
% change year-on-year -9.46% +15.42% +42.48%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +8 26 £588 +12.98% 26
West London - 8 £648 - 9
South London - 5 £675 - 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 8 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.00%) Jupyter
3 6 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.71%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.57%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.71%) AWS
2 30 (17.14%) Azure
3 14 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.43%) GCP
5 11 (6.29%) Amazon SageMaker
6 10 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.00%) Vertex AI
8 6 (3.43%) Dagster
8 6 (3.43%) GitHub
8 6 (3.43%) Serverless
9 5 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.71%) IBM Watson
11 3 (1.71%) PaaS
12 2 (1.14%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.14%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.86%) Power BI
2 11 (6.29%) KDB
2 11 (6.29%) Kdb+
2 11 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.00%) Tableau
4 6 (3.43%) Big Data
4 6 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.71%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.71%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.71%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.14%) DB2
7 2 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.14%) MemSQL
7 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.14%) Neo4j
7 2 (1.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (9.14%) Git
2 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.29%) MLflow
4 3 (1.71%) QUnit
4 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.14%) GitLab
5 2 (1.14%) GoCD
5 2 (1.14%) Gradle
5 2 (1.14%) JUnit
5 2 (1.14%) Maven
5 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.14%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.57%) Ant
6 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.57%) JIRA
6 1 (0.57%) Selenium
6 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 48 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.86%) Finance
3 43 (24.57%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (21.14%) Front Office
5 23 (13.14%) Banking
6 9 (5.14%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.00%) Retail
9 5 (2.86%) Marketing
10 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.29%) Legal
10 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.29%) Publishing
11 3 (1.71%) Aviation
12 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Law
12 2 (1.14%) Police
12 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.57%) Electronics
13 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 84 (48.00%) Developer
2 30 (17.14%) Senior
3 29 (16.57%) Data Scientist
4 22 (12.57%) Python Developer
5 21 (12.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 20 (11.43%) C++ Developer
7 17 (9.71%) Java Developer
8 15 (8.57%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.86%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 12 (6.86%) Linux Developer
9 12 (6.86%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 11 (6.29%) Lead
11 8 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Senior C++ Developer
12 7 (4.00%) Architect
12 7 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.43%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 5 (2.86%) Analyst
14 5 (2.86%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.86%) scikit-learn
2 23 (13.14%) PyTorch
3 22 (12.57%) TensorFlow
4 19 (10.86%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (9.14%) Pandas
6 14 (8.00%) NumPy
7 12 (6.86%) REST
8 11 (6.29%) React
9 8 (4.57%) HTML
9 8 (4.57%) Kafka
9 8 (4.57%) Matplotlib
9 8 (4.57%) XGBoost
10 7 (4.00%) Seaborn
11 6 (3.43%) .NET
11 6 (3.43%) CSS
11 6 (3.43%) LangChain
11 6 (3.43%) Middleware
12 4 (2.29%) FastAPI
12 4 (2.29%) JMS
12 4 (2.29%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 51 (29.14%) Data Structures
2 29 (16.57%) Equities
3 23 (13.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (11.43%) Derivative
4 20 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (9.71%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.29%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.57%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.57%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.14%) Clustering
12 2 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.14%) Replication
12 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.14%) Linux
2 10 (5.71%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) Android
3 2 (1.14%) Windows
4 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.57%) Solaris
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.00%) Machine Learning
2 52 (29.71%) AI
2 52 (29.71%) Data Science
3 46 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (24.00%) Analytics
4 42 (24.00%) Computer Science
5 41 (23.43%) CI/CD
6 38 (21.71%) Mathematics
7 32 (18.29%) Agile
7 32 (18.29%) Low Latency
8 29 (16.57%) Multithreading
9 28 (16.00%) Data Engineering
9 28 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (16.00%) Risk Management
10 26 (14.86%) Data Analysis
10 26 (14.86%) Natural Language Processing
10 26 (14.86%) Test Automation
11 22 (12.57%) Generative AI
12 21 (12.00%) Statistics
12 21 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 116 (66.29%) Python
2 44 (25.14%) SQL
3 37 (21.14%) Java
4 27 (15.43%) C++
5 15 (8.57%) C#
6 9 (5.14%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.57%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.00%) Bash
9 6 (3.43%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.86%) Go
10 5 (2.86%) R
11 2 (1.14%) Rust
11 2 (1.14%) Scala
12 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.57%) VBA
12 1 (0.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 37 (21.14%) Degree
2 12 (6.86%) Master's Degree
2 12 (6.86%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (6.29%) PhD
4 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.14%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
8 1 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.71%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.71%) SLA
4 2 (1.14%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) EMIR
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (8.57%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.57%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.71%) Terraform
3 5 (2.86%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.14%) Kibana
4 2 (1.14%) logstash
4 2 (1.14%) rkt
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.57%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.57%) Google
3 6 (3.43%) Splunk
4 5 (2.86%) Oracle
4 5 (2.86%) Solace
5 4 (2.29%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.29%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.29%) Charles River
5 4 (2.29%) Databricks
5 4 (2.29%) IBM
5 4 (2.29%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.71%) Cognos
6 3 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.71%) Sage
7 2 (1.14%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.14%) Foundry
7 2 (1.14%) IFS
7 2 (1.14%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.57%) Guidewire