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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 215 218 215
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 169 148 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.08% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.04% 3.16% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 102 137
10th Percentile £386 £382 £413
25th Percentile £483 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -10.96%
75th Percentile £1,050 £775 £800
90th Percentile £1,120 £875 £935
England median daily rate £565 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -9.60% +5.93% -14.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 14
10th Percentile £41.73 - £42.50
25th Percentile £42.44 £51.25 £43.56
Median hourly rate £44.75 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £46.94 £53.75 £61.56
90th Percentile £47.58 - £66.96
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -3.27%

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 5,565 4,683 6,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.99% 34.15% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,614 2,948 4,335
10th Percentile £350 £319 £300
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £701
90th Percentile £800 £839 £809
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 58 159
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.81 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.48 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.61 £37.54 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.46% +30.56% -14.99%
75th Percentile £52.66 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.49 £67.00
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.19% +7.14% +55.66%

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 27 January 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 27 January 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 27 £638 +2.00% 35
South London - 6 £750 - 4
West London - 5 £525 - 13
North London - 1 - - 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 9 (5.33%) Jupyter
2 7 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.78%) Apache
4 3 (1.78%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.78%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.18%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.59%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.53%) AWS
2 26 (15.38%) Azure
3 15 (8.88%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.28%) GCP
5 10 (5.92%) Amazon SageMaker
5 10 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (4.14%) Vertex AI
7 6 (3.55%) GitHub
8 5 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.96%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.37%) Serverless
10 3 (1.78%) Dagster
10 3 (1.78%) IBM Watson
10 3 (1.78%) PaaS
11 2 (1.18%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.18%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) SSL
2 2 (1.18%) SNMP
2 2 (1.18%) SSH
3 1 (0.59%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) KDB
1 14 (8.28%) Kdb+
2 13 (7.69%) Power BI
3 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.14%) Big Data
4 7 (4.14%) Tableau
5 6 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.37%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.18%) DB2
8 2 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.18%) MemSQL
8 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.18%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.18%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.18%) Sybase IQ
8 2 (1.18%) Weaviate
9 1 (0.59%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 14 (8.28%) Git
2 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.96%) JIRA
3 5 (2.96%) QUnit
4 3 (1.78%) GitLab
4 3 (1.78%) MLflow
4 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.18%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.18%) GoCD
5 2 (1.18%) Gradle
5 2 (1.18%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.18%) Maven
5 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
General
1 49 (28.99%) Finance
2 43 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 40 (23.67%) Front Office
4 35 (20.71%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (11.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.55%) Retail
8 5 (2.96%) Legal
9 4 (2.37%) Publishing
10 3 (1.78%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Aviation
12 1 (0.59%) Electronics
12 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (48.52%) Developer
2 24 (14.20%) Data Scientist
3 22 (13.02%) Python Developer
3 22 (13.02%) Senior
4 21 (12.43%) Quantitative Developer
5 20 (11.83%) C++ Developer
6 17 (10.06%) Java Developer
7 15 (8.88%) Senior Developer
8 12 (7.10%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 12 (7.10%) Linux Developer
8 12 (7.10%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 10 (5.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Lead
11 8 (4.73%) Analyst
11 8 (4.73%) Senior C++ Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 5 (2.96%) Data Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
14 5 (2.96%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.79%) scikit-learn
2 22 (13.02%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (9.47%) Pandas
3 16 (9.47%) PyTorch
3 16 (9.47%) TensorFlow
4 12 (7.10%) NumPy
5 10 (5.92%) Matplotlib
5 10 (5.92%) XGBoost
6 9 (5.33%) REST
7 8 (4.73%) React
8 7 (4.14%) HTML
9 6 (3.55%) Seaborn
9 6 (3.55%) XML
10 5 (2.96%) CSS
11 4 (2.37%) .NET
11 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.37%) JSON
11 4 (2.37%) Kafka
11 4 (2.37%) LangChain
11 4 (2.37%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.04%) Data Structures
2 27 (15.98%) Equities
3 22 (13.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (11.83%) Derivative
5 19 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (11.24%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.51%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.73%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.37%) Replication
10 3 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.78%) PKI
11 2 (1.18%) Clustering
11 2 (1.18%) Educational Technology
11 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.18%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.98%) Linux
2 12 (7.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Android
4 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.01%) Machine Learning
2 49 (28.99%) Data Science
3 43 (25.44%) AI
4 42 (24.85%) Computer Science
4 42 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (23.08%) Mathematics
6 38 (22.49%) Analytics
7 34 (20.12%) Low Latency
8 32 (18.93%) CI/CD
9 31 (18.34%) Agile
10 30 (17.75%) Multithreading
11 29 (17.16%) Risk Management
12 26 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (15.38%) Natural Language Processing
13 25 (14.79%) Data Analysis
14 24 (14.20%) Data Engineering
15 23 (13.61%) Quantitative Finance
16 22 (13.02%) Deep Learning
17 21 (12.43%) Visualisation
18 20 (11.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (63.31%) Python
2 41 (24.26%) SQL
3 32 (18.93%) Java
4 28 (16.57%) C++
5 15 (8.88%) C#
6 12 (7.10%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.14%) Bash
7 7 (4.14%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.96%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.37%) Go
10 3 (1.78%) R
11 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.18%) Rust
11 2 (1.18%) Scala
11 2 (1.18%) VBA
11 2 (1.18%) VC++
12 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 35 (20.71%) Degree
2 12 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (7.10%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (6.51%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.73%) PhD
6 7 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.78%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.18%) CEH
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) MCP
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.33%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.78%) SLA
4 2 (1.18%) EMIR
4 2 (1.18%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.18%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 13 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.59%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (8.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.37%) Kibana
3 4 (2.37%) logstash
4 3 (1.78%) Grafana
5 2 (1.18%) rkt
6 1 (0.59%) Ansible
6 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.59%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.14%) Splunk
3 6 (3.55%) Google
4 5 (2.96%) Oracle
4 5 (2.96%) Solace
5 4 (2.37%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.78%) Cognos
6 3 (1.78%) IBM
6 3 (1.78%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.78%) Sage
7 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.18%) Charles River
7 2 (1.18%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.18%) Foundry
7 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.18%) Thales
8 1 (0.59%) Databricks
8 1 (0.59%) SAP