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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 225 205
Rank change year-on-year -56 -20 +29
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 167 151 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.12% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 2.96% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 118 157
10th Percentile £428 £400 £388
25th Percentile £554 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £578 £675
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -14.44% +3.85%
75th Percentile £788 £753 £825
90th Percentile £886 £850 £892
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £85.75 £29.08 £43.75
25th Percentile £86.25 £31.44 £47.50
Median hourly rate £87.50 £37.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +134.90% -29.05% -10.64%
75th Percentile £88.75 £42.44 £56.56
90th Percentile - £44.43 £57.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% +21.82% +100.00%

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 7,501 5,099 5,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.34% 37.69% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,682 3,353 3,804
10th Percentile £356 £332 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £720 £750
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 120 83
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.37
25th Percentile £21.04 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £32.87 £27.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% -8.70% -13.94%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.53 £31.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +38.21% -34.39% +12.28%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -43 8 £705 +12.80% 26
West London -12 7 £650 +23.81% 11
East London 0 1 £432 -35.04% 4
South London -13 1 £650 +4.00% 1
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 7 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.40%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.40%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.59%) ProductWriter
1 6 (3.59%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.96%) GCP
2 31 (18.56%) Azure
3 25 (14.97%) AWS
4 13 (7.78%) GitHub
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.99%) Google Gemini
6 4 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.40%) dbt
6 4 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.40%) Vertex AI
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (1.80%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.80%) Dagster
7 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.20%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.59%) HTTP
2 6 (3.59%) Multicast
3 4 (2.40%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.80%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.80%) DNS
4 3 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.80%) Firewall
4 3 (1.80%) Network Security
4 3 (1.80%) SSL
4 3 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) DMZ
5 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.19%) KDB
3 3 (1.80%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.80%) Power BI
3 3 (1.80%) Redis
3 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.20%) Big Data
4 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.20%) Kdb+
4 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.20%) Tableau
4 2 (1.20%) TigerGraph
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.60%) Metadata
5 1 (0.60%) MySQL
5 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) Git
2 3 (1.80%) MLflow
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
3 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.60%) Gradle
4 1 (0.60%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 49 (29.34%) Finance
2 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
3 30 (17.96%) Banking
4 28 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.98%) Front Office
5 15 (8.98%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.39%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.19%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.99%) Automotive
11 4 (2.40%) Advertising
11 4 (2.40%) Electronics
11 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.80%) Aviation
12 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.80%) Marketing
13 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (26.35%) Developer
2 38 (22.75%) Senior
3 21 (12.57%) Data Scientist
4 16 (9.58%) Java Developer
5 11 (6.59%) Quantitative Developer
5 11 (6.59%) Senior Developer
6 10 (5.99%) Consultant
6 10 (5.99%) Lead
7 9 (5.39%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Architect
8 8 (4.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (4.19%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Software Engineering Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Software Manager
9 7 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.59%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (8.98%) React
3 14 (8.38%) scikit-learn
4 10 (5.99%) PyTorch
5 9 (5.39%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.79%) Pandas
6 8 (4.79%) Redux
6 8 (4.79%) Spring
6 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.79%) WebSockets
7 7 (4.19%) Kafka
7 7 (4.19%) LangChain
7 7 (4.19%) TensorFlow
7 7 (4.19%) Vue
8 6 (3.59%) Backbone.js
8 6 (3.59%) JSON
8 6 (3.59%) PySpark
8 6 (3.59%) Ultra Messaging
9 5 (2.99%) LangGraph
10 4 (2.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.74%) Data Structures
2 37 (22.16%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (11.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (10.78%) Derivative
5 11 (6.59%) AI Agents
6 10 (5.99%) Product Ownership
7 9 (5.39%) Equities
8 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.59%) Robotics
10 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.40%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.40%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (2.40%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.40%) IoT
11 4 (2.40%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (2.40%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.80%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (1.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Linux
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.92%) Machine Learning
2 61 (36.53%) AI
3 47 (28.14%) Computer Science
4 37 (22.16%) Data Science
4 37 (22.16%) Software Engineering
5 34 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (19.76%) Low Latency
7 31 (18.56%) CI/CD
8 30 (17.96%) Multithreading
9 25 (14.97%) Mathematics
10 24 (14.37%) Analytics
11 23 (13.77%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (13.77%) Observability
11 23 (13.77%) Validation
12 21 (12.57%) Agile
12 21 (12.57%) Microservices
13 18 (10.78%) Containerisation
13 18 (10.78%) Electronic Trading
14 17 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (10.18%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.91%) Python
2 56 (33.53%) Java
3 39 (23.35%) SQL
4 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
5 22 (13.17%) C++
6 18 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.38%) C#
8 12 (7.19%) Rust
9 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.99%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.40%) R
11 4 (2.40%) Scala
12 3 (1.80%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.80%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.20%) Go
14 1 (0.60%) Bash
14 1 (0.60%) DAML
14 1 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.60%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 41 (24.55%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.19%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.59%) PhD
6 10 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.80%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) MISRA
5 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 12 (7.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.40%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.80%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.20%) Terraform
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.19%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.59%) Databricks
3 6 (3.59%) Google
3 6 (3.59%) SAP
3 6 (3.59%) Solace
4 5 (2.99%) IFS
5 3 (1.80%) F5
6 2 (1.20%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.20%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.60%) Calypso
7 1 (0.60%) Charles River
7 1 (0.60%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.60%) Murex
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.60%) Sitecore