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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 214 204
Rank change year-on-year -52 -10 +19
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 152 138 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.13% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 3.14% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 103 154
10th Percentile £455 £438 £426
25th Percentile £522 £524 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £792 £781 £825
90th Percentile £943 £850 £950
England median daily rate £550 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.64% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 13
10th Percentile £71.85 £30.65 £41.50
25th Percentile £86.25 £35.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -19.09% +100.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £56.15 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +150.00%

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 6,588 4,396 5,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.66% 36.13% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,200 2,949 4,108
10th Percentile £356 £335 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £520 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 83 149
10th Percentile £18.93 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.91 £22.86 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +11.35% -20.02%
75th Percentile £61.44 £48.13 £50.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £44.50 £33.91 £35.50
% change year-on-year +31.23% -4.48% +58.94%

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 30 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

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 30 May 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 -25 15 £705 +22.61% 15
West London - 15 £650 - 7
South London -13 2 £556 -11.00% 1
East London -7 1 £432 -35.04% 4
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 11 (7.24%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.97%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.66%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.66%) Solana
Applications
1 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.66%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.61%) ProductWriter
2 6 (3.95%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.97%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.97%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.74%) AWS
2 18 (11.84%) Azure
3 13 (8.55%) GCP
4 8 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
4 8 (5.26%) Dagster
5 6 (3.95%) GitHub
5 6 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.29%) Vertex AI
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.97%) dbt
8 3 (1.97%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.32%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.32%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.32%) IBM Watson
9 2 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) HTTP
2 6 (3.95%) Multicast
3 4 (2.63%) SSL
4 3 (1.97%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.97%) DNS
4 3 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.97%) Firewall
4 3 (1.97%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.97%) Network Security
4 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.26%) KDB
2 6 (3.95%) Power BI
2 6 (3.95%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.63%) Big Data
3 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.97%) Kdb+
4 3 (1.97%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.97%) Tableau
5 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.32%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
6 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (7.89%) Git
2 5 (3.29%) MLflow
3 2 (1.32%) Gradle
3 2 (1.32%) JUnit
3 2 (1.32%) Maven
3 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.66%) Ant
4 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.66%) Selenium
4 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 36 (23.68%) Finance
2 35 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
4 32 (21.05%) Banking
5 23 (15.13%) Front Office
6 18 (11.84%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.95%) Aviation
7 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 2 (1.32%) Electronics
10 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Marketing
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (34.87%) Developer
2 34 (22.37%) Senior
3 25 (16.45%) Data Scientist
4 17 (11.18%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.24%) C++ Developer
5 11 (7.24%) Quantitative Developer
5 11 (7.24%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.58%) Architect
6 10 (6.58%) Python Developer
7 9 (5.92%) Consultant
7 9 (5.92%) Lead
8 7 (4.61%) Senior Data Scientist
8 7 (4.61%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Integration Consultant
9 6 (3.95%) Machine Learning Consultant
9 6 (3.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) SAP Integration Consultant
9 6 (3.95%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.13%) FIX Protocol
2 21 (13.82%) scikit-learn
3 16 (10.53%) PyTorch
4 14 (9.21%) TensorFlow
5 12 (7.89%) Pandas
6 9 (5.92%) NumPy
6 9 (5.92%) React
6 9 (5.92%) Spring
6 9 (5.92%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.26%) Kafka
8 7 (4.61%) REST
8 7 (4.61%) WebSockets
9 6 (3.95%) Seaborn
9 6 (3.95%) Ultra Messaging
10 5 (3.29%) Electron
10 5 (3.29%) LangChain
10 5 (3.29%) Matplotlib
10 5 (3.29%) Middleware
10 5 (3.29%) OpenFin
10 5 (3.29%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.37%) Data Structures
2 29 (19.08%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (15.13%) Equities
4 20 (13.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (12.50%) Derivative
6 9 (5.92%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.61%) AI Agents
8 6 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.95%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (3.29%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (1.32%) Exotic Derivative
12 2 (1.32%) IoT
12 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.32%) OTC Derivatives
12 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Solaris
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (39.47%) Machine Learning
2 48 (31.58%) AI
3 39 (25.66%) Data Science
4 37 (24.34%) CI/CD
5 36 (23.68%) Low Latency
6 35 (23.03%) Multithreading
7 33 (21.71%) Analytics
7 33 (21.71%) Computer Science
8 24 (15.79%) Electronic Trading
8 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (15.13%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (14.47%) Mathematics
10 22 (14.47%) Test Automation
11 20 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (12.50%) Natural Language Processing
13 18 (11.84%) Containerisation
14 17 (11.18%) Microservices
14 17 (11.18%) Observability
14 17 (11.18%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.53%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.29%) Python
2 38 (25.00%) Java
3 37 (24.34%) SQL
4 22 (14.47%) C++
5 15 (9.87%) TypeScript
6 14 (9.21%) C#
7 9 (5.92%) Rust
8 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.95%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.97%) R
11 3 (1.97%) Scala
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.66%) DAML
13 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.66%) Go
13 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.66%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 31 (20.39%) Degree
2 11 (7.24%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.92%) PhD
4 6 (3.95%) Numerate Degree
4 6 (3.95%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.95%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.95%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (8.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.66%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.63%) Grafana
3 3 (1.97%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.32%) Terraform
5 1 (0.66%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.66%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.66%) Istio
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.95%) Databricks
2 6 (3.95%) Google
2 6 (3.95%) IFS
2 6 (3.95%) SAP
2 6 (3.95%) Solace
3 4 (2.63%) ION Trading
3 4 (2.63%) Oracle
4 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
4 3 (1.97%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.97%) Charles River
4 3 (1.97%) F5
4 3 (1.97%) IBM
4 3 (1.97%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.97%) Splunk
5 2 (1.32%) Cognos
5 2 (1.32%) Sage
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe
6 1 (0.66%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.66%) Pegasus