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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 209 200
Rank change year-on-year -73 -9 +36
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 170 167 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.25% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.20% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 128 141
10th Percentile £421 £396 £400
25th Percentile £563 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £696 £578 £650
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -11.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £739 £766 £813
90th Percentile £850 £981 £913
England median daily rate £650 £550 £609
% change year-on-year +18.18% -9.69% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £85.38 - £47.25
25th Percentile £85.94 £27.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate £87.50 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +191.67% -42.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £32.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year -2.78% +40.49% +13.89%

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 7,891 5,211 5,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.48% 38.95% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 3,351 3,505
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 123 71
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.16 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.52 £23.23 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.41 £26.50 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.62% -21.48% +12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.88 £56.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £77.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £52.75
% change year-on-year +15.20% -44.08% +14.23%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -47 12 £684 +9.40% 51
West London -11 11 £725 +38.10% 18
South London -18 1 £650 -16.13%
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 (6.47%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.35%) Apache
4 3 (1.76%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.18%) Confluence
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.59%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) ProductWriter
1 3 (1.76%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.71%) GCP
2 33 (19.41%) Azure
3 30 (17.65%) AWS
4 15 (8.82%) GitHub
5 8 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.35%) Google Gemini
7 3 (1.76%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.76%) dbt
7 3 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.76%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.76%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.76%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Databricks
8 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.53%) HTTP
2 3 (1.76%) Multicast
3 1 (0.59%) DMZ
3 1 (0.59%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.65%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.53%) Big Data
3 5 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.35%) KDB
4 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.76%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.76%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.76%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.76%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.76%) Kdb+
5 3 (1.76%) Metadata
5 3 (1.76%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.76%) Power BI
6 2 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.18%) Redis
6 2 (1.18%) Tableau
6 2 (1.18%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 21 (12.35%) Git
2 4 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.76%) JIRA
4 2 (1.18%) GitLab
4 2 (1.18%) QUnit
5 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.59%) Gradle
5 1 (0.59%) Maven
5 1 (0.59%) MLflow
5 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 56 (32.94%) Finance
2 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (17.06%) Banking
4 13 (7.65%) Investment Banking
5 12 (7.06%) Front Office
6 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.71%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.12%) Aerospace
8 6 (3.53%) Automotive
8 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.76%) Marketing
11 2 (1.18%) Advertising
11 2 (1.18%) Law
11 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Publishing
11 2 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (21.18%) Senior
2 32 (18.82%) Developer
3 21 (12.35%) Data Scientist
4 15 (8.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (7.65%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.47%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.29%) Architect
7 9 (5.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.29%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.29%) Software Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.29%) Software Manager
8 8 (4.71%) Quantitative Developer
8 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Lead
9 7 (4.12%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.53%) Robotics Engineer
10 6 (3.53%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.47%) React
2 10 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 10 (5.88%) PySpark
2 10 (5.88%) XGBoost
3 9 (5.29%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (5.29%) scikit-learn
4 8 (4.71%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.12%) LangChain
5 7 (4.12%) Redux
5 7 (4.12%) TensorFlow
5 7 (4.12%) Vue
6 6 (3.53%) Backbone.js
6 6 (3.53%) JSON
6 6 (3.53%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.94%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.94%) LangGraph
7 5 (2.94%) Pandas
8 4 (2.35%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.35%) Kafka
8 4 (2.35%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 51 (30.00%) Data Structures
2 32 (18.82%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.82%) Derivative
4 12 (7.06%) AI Agents
4 12 (7.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (6.47%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.12%) Robotics
8 6 (3.53%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.94%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.94%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.35%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.35%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (2.35%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.76%) Equities
11 3 (1.76%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.76%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.71%) Linux
2 6 (3.53%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.12%) Machine Learning
2 69 (40.59%) AI
3 48 (28.24%) Computer Science
4 43 (25.29%) Data Science
5 42 (24.71%) Software Engineering
6 37 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (21.18%) CI/CD
7 36 (21.18%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (17.65%) Validation
9 27 (15.88%) Analytics
10 26 (15.29%) Low Latency
10 26 (15.29%) Mathematics
11 24 (14.12%) Agile
12 23 (13.53%) Observability
13 21 (12.35%) Code Quality
13 21 (12.35%) Deep Learning
14 18 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (10.59%) Feature Engineering
14 18 (10.59%) Fraud Detection
14 18 (10.59%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 78 (45.88%) Python
2 55 (32.35%) Java
3 44 (25.88%) SQL
4 28 (16.47%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.88%) C++
6 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.47%) Rust
8 10 (5.88%) C#
9 6 (3.53%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.94%) Scala
11 4 (2.35%) C
11 4 (2.35%) R
12 3 (1.76%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.76%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.18%) Go
13 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.59%) Bash
14 1 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (27.65%) Degree
2 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.82%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.47%) PhD
6 7 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (4.12%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.18%) CISM
7 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.94%) Basel III
3 4 (2.35%) GDPR
3 4 (2.35%) NIST
4 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.76%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.18%) MISRA
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.76%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.76%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.71%) Databricks
3 7 (4.12%) Google
3 7 (4.12%) OpenAI
4 4 (2.35%) IFS
4 4 (2.35%) Solace
5 3 (1.76%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.76%) FactSet
5 3 (1.76%) Reuters
5 3 (1.76%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.18%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) Calypso
7 1 (0.59%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.59%) Murex
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.59%) YouTube