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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 196 247
Rank change year-on-year -18 +51 -26
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 157 195 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.21% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 3.61% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 147 162
10th Percentile £400 £421 £375
25th Percentile £459 £523 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £763 £788 £825
90th Percentile £875 £876 £925
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £29.08 £47.25 -
25th Percentile £31.44 £48.75 -
Median hourly rate £37.25 £52.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.05% -41.67% +318.60%
75th Percentile £42.44 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £44.43 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.62% +50.00% -27.17%

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 5,044 5,403 7,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.09% 33.59% 35.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 3,591 5,675
10th Percentile £333 £325 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £738 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 68 86
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.25 £17.65
25th Percentile £23.21 £23.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.31 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +1.82% +0.82%
75th Percentile £46.15 £54.06 £53.63
90th Percentile £68.63 £71.44 £75.63
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 +2 33 £625 -11.97% 52
South London -2 7 £800 - 3
West London - 3 £525 - 4
East London +7 1 £665 -21.76% 4
North London - 1 - -
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 16 (10.19%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.55%) Confluence
3 2 (1.27%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) ProductWriter
1 2 (1.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.83%) Azure
2 20 (12.74%) AWS
3 14 (8.92%) GCP
4 11 (7.01%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.73%) GitHub
6 7 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.91%) Serverless
7 3 (1.91%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.27%) dbt
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.64%) Dialogflow
9 1 (0.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.55%) SSL
3 3 (1.91%) HTTP
3 3 (1.91%) Multicast
4 2 (1.27%) SNMP
4 2 (1.27%) SSH
5 1 (0.64%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.83%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.92%) Hadoop
3 13 (8.28%) Tableau
4 11 (7.01%) Power BI
5 10 (6.37%) Big Data
6 9 (5.73%) KDB
7 7 (4.46%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (3.82%) DB2
8 6 (3.82%) MemSQL
8 6 (3.82%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.82%) Sybase IQ
9 5 (3.18%) Apache Hive
9 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.18%) GIS
9 5 (3.18%) Kdb+
9 5 (3.18%) QGIS
9 5 (3.18%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.55%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (17.83%) Git
2 11 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.37%) JIRA
4 7 (4.46%) JUnit
5 6 (3.82%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.18%) GitLab
7 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (1.91%) Mocha
7 3 (1.91%) Postman
7 3 (1.91%) Selenium
7 3 (1.91%) TestNG
7 3 (1.91%) TestRail
7 3 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.91%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.91%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.27%) MLflow
8 2 (1.27%) QUnit
9 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.64%) Gradle
General
1 69 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 58 (36.94%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (35.67%) Finance
4 28 (17.83%) Front Office
5 24 (15.29%) Banking
6 12 (7.64%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.73%) Investment Banking
7 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.73%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.18%) Back Office
9 5 (3.18%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.18%) Retail
10 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.55%) Police
11 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (35.03%) Developer
2 20 (12.74%) Data Scientist
3 18 (11.46%) Python Developer
4 15 (9.55%) Java Developer
4 15 (9.55%) Software Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) Senior
6 13 (8.28%) Lead
7 9 (5.73%) Analyst
8 8 (5.10%) Quantitative Developer
9 7 (4.46%) Architect
9 7 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Consultant
10 6 (3.82%) Tester
11 5 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Haskell Developer
11 5 (3.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) React Developer
11 5 (3.18%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (2.55%) Python Data Engineer
12 4 (2.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.46%) TensorFlow
2 17 (10.83%) scikit-learn
3 16 (10.19%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (9.55%) REST
5 14 (8.92%) Pandas
6 9 (5.73%) CSS
6 9 (5.73%) HTML
6 9 (5.73%) PySpark
7 7 (4.46%) React
8 6 (3.82%) Jest
8 6 (3.82%) Middleware
8 6 (3.82%) Node.js
8 6 (3.82%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.18%) FpML
9 5 (3.18%) GeoPandas
9 5 (3.18%) NumPy
9 5 (3.18%) PostGIS
9 5 (3.18%) SOAP
9 5 (3.18%) XML
10 4 (2.55%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 54 (34.39%) Data Structures
2 15 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 12 (7.64%) Fixed Income
4 11 (7.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (6.37%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (5.10%) Derivative
7 8 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.18%) Hedge funds
8 5 (3.18%) PKI
8 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.55%) Credit Risk
9 4 (2.55%) Operational Technology
9 4 (2.55%) SCADA
10 3 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.91%) TWAP
10 3 (1.91%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.74%) Linux
2 8 (5.10%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Android
4 1 (0.64%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.68%) Machine Learning
2 59 (37.58%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (29.30%) Computer Science
4 43 (27.39%) Data Science
5 42 (26.75%) CI/CD
6 40 (25.48%) Artificial Intelligence
7 34 (21.66%) Agile
8 33 (21.02%) Analytics
9 31 (19.75%) Software Engineering
10 29 (18.47%) Mathematics
11 27 (17.20%) Visualisation
12 26 (16.56%) DevOps
13 23 (14.65%) Data Modelling
13 23 (14.65%) Low Latency
14 22 (14.01%) Decision-Making
15 18 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
15 18 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
16 16 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
16 16 (10.19%) Data Visualisation
16 16 (10.19%) OO
Programming Languages
1 87 (55.41%) Python
2 54 (34.39%) SQL
3 35 (22.29%) Java
4 19 (12.10%) C++
5 17 (10.83%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.37%) C#
7 9 (5.73%) R
8 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.18%) Haskell
10 4 (2.55%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.91%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.91%) OCaml
11 3 (1.91%) Rust
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
11 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.27%) C
12 2 (1.27%) Go
12 2 (1.27%) VBA
12 2 (1.27%) VC++
13 1 (0.64%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 33 (21.02%) Degree
2 18 (11.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (10.83%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.92%) Security Cleared
5 9 (5.73%) PhD
6 8 (5.10%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.82%) CISSP
8 4 (2.55%) CISM
9 3 (1.91%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.27%) CEH
10 2 (1.27%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.27%) GIAC
10 2 (1.27%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.27%) SANS
11 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
2 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.55%) NIST
3 3 (1.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) EMIR
4 2 (1.27%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.64%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 7 (4.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (1.91%) Kibana
2 3 (1.91%) logstash
3 2 (1.27%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.64%) Ansible
4 1 (0.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.64%) Rundeck
4 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.37%) Databricks
3 6 (3.82%) Google
4 5 (3.18%) Splunk
5 3 (1.91%) Duck Creek
5 3 (1.91%) Guidewire
5 3 (1.91%) Oracle
5 3 (1.91%) Solace
5 3 (1.91%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.27%) Foundry
6 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.27%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.27%) Temenos
6 2 (1.27%) Thales
7 1 (0.64%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.64%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.64%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.64%) Palantir