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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 222 210
Rank change year-on-year -62 -12 +7
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 158 147 214
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.09% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 2.95% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 112 159
10th Percentile £443 £413 £425
25th Percentile £512 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £788 £775 £819
90th Percentile £888 £850 £950
England median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £74.58 £30.65 £41.38
25th Percentile £85.94 £35.38 £45.31
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 £64.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +144.44%

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 7,199 4,984 5,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.54% 36.92% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,514 3,279 4,151
10th Percentile £354 £332 £315
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 107 138
10th Percentile £19.25 £15.84 £15.48
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £21.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +7.45% -20.23%
75th Percentile £63.75 £46.63 £49.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.48 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +19.05%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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
West London -5 14 £650 +23.81% 10
Central London -14 14 £699 +11.80% 10
East London 0 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 (6.96%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.63%) IIS
5 1 (0.63%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.63%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.43%) ProductWriter
2 6 (3.80%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.90%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (1.90%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.27%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.99%) AWS
2 24 (15.19%) Azure
3 17 (10.76%) GCP
4 8 (5.06%) Dagster
4 8 (5.06%) GitHub
4 8 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.80%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.16%) Vertex AI
7 4 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.90%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.90%) dbt
8 3 (1.90%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.27%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.27%) Serverless
10 1 (0.63%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) HTTP
2 6 (3.80%) Multicast
3 4 (2.53%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.90%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.90%) DNS
4 3 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.90%) Firewall
4 3 (1.90%) Network Security
4 3 (1.90%) SSL
4 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.63%) DMZ
5 1 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.43%) KDB
2 6 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.16%) Power BI
4 4 (2.53%) Big Data
4 4 (2.53%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.90%) Redis
5 3 (1.90%) Tableau
6 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.27%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.27%) TigerGraph
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.63%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.63%) Power Query
7 1 (0.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) MLflow
3 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) GitLab
4 2 (1.27%) Gradle
4 2 (1.27%) JIRA
4 2 (1.27%) Maven
4 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Ant
5 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.63%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.63%) JUnit
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 41 (25.95%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (25.32%) Finance
3 39 (24.68%) Social Skills
4 35 (22.15%) Banking
5 20 (12.66%) Front Office
6 18 (11.39%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.16%) Aviation
7 5 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.90%) Law
9 3 (1.90%) Marketing
9 3 (1.90%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Advertising
10 2 (1.27%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (29.11%) Developer
2 39 (24.68%) Senior
3 24 (15.19%) Data Scientist
4 17 (10.76%) Java Developer
5 11 (6.96%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.33%) Architect
6 10 (6.33%) Consultant
6 10 (6.33%) Lead
6 10 (6.33%) Quantitative Developer
7 8 (5.06%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (3.80%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Integration Consultant
9 6 (3.80%) Machine Learning Consultant
9 6 (3.80%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (3.80%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.92%) scikit-learn
2 21 (13.29%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (10.76%) PyTorch
4 15 (9.49%) TensorFlow
5 12 (7.59%) Pandas
6 11 (6.96%) Kafka
7 10 (6.33%) React
7 10 (6.33%) Spring
7 10 (6.33%) Spring Boot
8 9 (5.70%) NumPy
9 8 (5.06%) WebSockets
10 7 (4.43%) LangChain
10 7 (4.43%) REST
11 6 (3.80%) Electron
11 6 (3.80%) OpenFin
11 6 (3.80%) Ultra Messaging
12 5 (3.16%) Hugging Face
12 5 (3.16%) Middleware
12 5 (3.16%) PySpark
12 5 (3.16%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.32%) Data Structures
2 31 (19.62%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (12.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (10.13%) Derivative
5 13 (8.23%) Equities
6 11 (6.96%) Product Ownership
7 9 (5.70%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.16%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.53%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
10 3 (1.90%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.90%) OTC Derivatives
10 3 (1.90%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.27%) IoT
11 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Solaris
3 1 (0.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (37.97%) Machine Learning
2 54 (34.18%) AI
3 41 (25.95%) Data Science
4 38 (24.05%) Computer Science
5 36 (22.78%) CI/CD
6 35 (22.15%) Multithreading
7 34 (21.52%) Low Latency
8 31 (19.62%) Analytics
8 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (15.82%) Electronic Trading
10 24 (15.19%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (15.19%) Software Engineering
11 22 (13.92%) Containerisation
11 22 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (13.92%) Microservices
11 22 (13.92%) Observability
12 18 (11.39%) Algorithmic Trading
12 18 (11.39%) Mathematics
12 18 (11.39%) Performance Optimisation
13 17 (10.76%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 74 (46.84%) Python
2 44 (27.85%) Java
3 43 (27.22%) SQL
4 20 (12.66%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.49%) C#
5 15 (9.49%) C++
6 12 (7.59%) Rust
7 9 (5.70%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.43%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.53%) R
9 4 (2.53%) Scala
10 3 (1.90%) Go
10 3 (1.90%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.63%) Bash
11 1 (0.63%) DAML
11 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.63%) Ruby
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.63%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 32 (20.25%) Degree
2 13 (8.23%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.70%) PhD
4 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.16%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.90%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (9.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.90%) Grafana
2 3 (1.90%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.27%) Terraform
4 1 (0.63%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.63%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.63%) Istio
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 11 (6.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.43%) Databricks
2 7 (4.43%) Solace
3 6 (3.80%) Google
3 6 (3.80%) IFS
3 6 (3.80%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.80%) SAP
4 4 (2.53%) IBM
5 3 (1.90%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.90%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.90%) Charles River
5 3 (1.90%) Duck Creek
5 3 (1.90%) F5
5 3 (1.90%) Guidewire
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle
5 3 (1.90%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe
7 1 (0.63%) Calypso
7 1 (0.63%) Murex