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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 228 197
Rank change year-on-year -22 -31 +28
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 158 132 215
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.04% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 2.90% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 89 152
10th Percentile £450 £410 £416
25th Percentile £506 £490 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £876 £800 £803
90th Percentile £1,050 £875 £950
England median daily rate £550 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 18
10th Percentile £45.75 £44.85 £42.13
25th Percentile £59.25 £47.25 £46.94
Median hourly rate £87.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £56.25 £61.56
90th Percentile - £57.75 £67.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +109.52%

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 6,271 4,551 5,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.88% 35.80% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,013 3,080 4,157
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £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 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 73 162
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.59 £18.83
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +34.62% -25.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.50 £46.77
90th Percentile £78.55 £80.28 £66.58
England median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +22.86% +30.97% +23.77%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -24 19 £538 -6.52% 42
West London - 14 £650 - 14
South London - 2 £556 - 7
East London -3 1 £432 -18.87% 11
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 12 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.63%) Solana
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.63%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.53%) Fidessa
1 4 (2.53%) ProductWriter
1 4 (2.53%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.42%) AWS
2 20 (12.66%) Azure
3 15 (9.49%) GCP
4 11 (6.96%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (5.06%) Dagster
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.80%) GitHub
8 6 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.80%) Vertex AI
9 5 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.53%) Serverless
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.90%) dbt
11 3 (1.90%) Google Gemini
11 3 (1.90%) IBM Watson
12 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.43%) HTTP
2 4 (2.53%) SSL
3 3 (1.90%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.90%) DNS
3 3 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.90%) Firewall
3 3 (1.90%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.90%) Multicast
3 3 (1.90%) Network Security
3 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.70%) Power BI
2 8 (5.06%) KDB
3 6 (3.80%) Tableau
4 5 (3.16%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.53%) Big Data
5 4 (2.53%) Kdb+
5 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.90%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.90%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) MLflow
3 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) Gradle
4 2 (1.27%) JUnit
4 2 (1.27%) Maven
4 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Ant
5 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.63%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.63%) JIRA
5 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.63%) webpack
General
1 40 (25.32%) Finance
2 39 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (23.42%) Social Skills
4 28 (17.72%) Front Office
5 25 (15.82%) Banking
6 12 (7.59%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.80%) Aviation
7 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Retail
8 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Police
10 2 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (40.51%) Developer
2 28 (17.72%) Senior
3 27 (17.09%) Data Scientist
4 18 (11.39%) Java Developer
5 17 (10.76%) C++ Developer
5 17 (10.76%) Python Developer
6 16 (10.13%) Quantitative Developer
7 12 (7.59%) Lead
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (5.70%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Linux Developer
9 9 (5.70%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 7 (4.43%) Senior Data Scientist
11 6 (3.80%) Architect
11 6 (3.80%) Consultant
11 6 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (3.80%) Senior C++ Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.46%) scikit-learn
2 22 (13.92%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (12.66%) PyTorch
4 18 (11.39%) TensorFlow
5 13 (8.23%) Pandas
6 10 (6.33%) NumPy
7 9 (5.70%) Kafka
7 9 (5.70%) React
7 9 (5.70%) Spring
7 9 (5.70%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.06%) REST
8 8 (5.06%) Seaborn
9 7 (4.43%) Matplotlib
10 6 (3.80%) LangChain
10 6 (3.80%) Middleware
10 6 (3.80%) XGBoost
11 5 (3.16%) Electron
11 5 (3.16%) OpenFin
12 4 (2.53%) HTML
12 4 (2.53%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.32%) Data Structures
2 28 (17.72%) Equities
3 25 (15.82%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (12.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (11.39%) Derivative
6 9 (5.70%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (4.43%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.80%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.16%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
10 4 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.27%) Augmented Reality
12 2 (1.27%) IoT
12 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.23%) Linux
2 7 (4.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Solaris
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (41.77%) Machine Learning
2 52 (32.91%) AI
3 41 (25.95%) Data Science
4 39 (24.68%) Analytics
5 38 (24.05%) CI/CD
5 38 (24.05%) Computer Science
6 36 (22.78%) Low Latency
7 32 (20.25%) Multithreading
8 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (16.46%) Mathematics
10 25 (15.82%) Agile
11 24 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (15.19%) Electronic Trading
11 24 (15.19%) Test Automation
12 22 (13.92%) Data Engineering
12 22 (13.92%) Natural Language Processing
13 19 (12.03%) Generative AI
13 19 (12.03%) Microservices
14 18 (11.39%) Containerisation
14 18 (11.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 94 (59.49%) Python
2 38 (24.05%) Java
2 38 (24.05%) SQL
3 24 (15.19%) C++
4 17 (10.76%) C#
5 13 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.43%) Kotlin
7 6 (3.80%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.16%) Rust
9 4 (2.53%) Bash
9 4 (2.53%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.27%) Go
10 2 (1.27%) R
11 1 (0.63%) DAML
11 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 31 (19.62%) Degree
2 10 (6.33%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.70%) Numerate Degree
4 8 (5.06%) PhD
5 6 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.80%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.16%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.33%) QA
2 6 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (7.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.80%) Terraform
3 5 (3.16%) Grafana
4 3 (1.90%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.63%) Istio
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.43%) Google
3 6 (3.80%) Solace
4 5 (3.16%) Databricks
5 4 (2.53%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.53%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.53%) Charles River
5 4 (2.53%) IBM
5 4 (2.53%) ION Trading
5 4 (2.53%) Oracle
5 4 (2.53%) SAP
5 4 (2.53%) Splunk
6 3 (1.90%) Cognos
6 3 (1.90%) F5
6 3 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.90%) Sage
7 2 (1.27%) IFS
8 1 (0.63%) ClickSoftware Technologies
8 1 (0.63%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.63%) Pegasus