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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 215 203
Rank change year-on-year -79 -12 +29
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 163 158 202
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 1.19% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 3.07% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 128 149
10th Percentile £432 £396 £425
25th Percentile £550 £455 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £767 £753 £788
90th Percentile £875 £875 £885
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £85.63 - £47.25
25th Percentile £86.25 £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 £69.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.72% +32.38% +31.25%

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 7,704 5,140 5,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.10% 38.72% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,878 3,323 3,536
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £731
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 119 69
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.98 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.50 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +32.08% -16.19% +14.98%
75th Percentile £59.88 £46.35 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £35.82 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +19.40% -47.69% +25.00%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 9 £705 +12.80% 66
West London -16 6 £751 +43.05% 42
South London -14 1 £650 -16.13% 2
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 6 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.23%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.61%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) ProductWriter
1 5 (3.07%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.23%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.93%) GCP
2 32 (19.63%) Azure
3 24 (14.72%) AWS
4 15 (9.20%) GitHub
5 8 (4.91%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (3.07%) Google Gemini
7 4 (2.45%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.84%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.84%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.84%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.23%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.23%) dbt
9 2 (1.23%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.23%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.91%) HTTP
2 3 (1.84%) Multicast
3 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.61%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.61%) DMZ
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.61%) SAN
4 1 (0.61%) SSL
4 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.75%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.07%) KDB
3 4 (2.45%) Big Data
3 4 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.84%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.84%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.84%) Kdb+
4 3 (1.84%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.84%) Power BI
4 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.23%) Redis
5 2 (1.23%) Tableau
5 2 (1.23%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (11.66%) Git
2 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) JIRA
3 2 (1.23%) QUnit
4 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.61%) MLflow
4 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (33.74%) Finance
2 32 (19.63%) Social Skills
3 31 (19.02%) Banking
4 27 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.36%) Investment Banking
6 10 (6.13%) Front Office
7 8 (4.91%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.29%) Aerospace
8 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.68%) Automotive
9 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.45%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.23%) Advertising
11 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Electronics
11 2 (1.23%) Law
11 2 (1.23%) Marketing
11 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (22.09%) Senior
2 35 (21.47%) Developer
3 22 (13.50%) Data Scientist
4 11 (6.75%) Data Engineer
4 11 (6.75%) Senior Developer
5 10 (6.13%) Java Developer
5 10 (6.13%) Lead
6 9 (5.52%) Architect
6 9 (5.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (5.52%) Engineering Manager
6 9 (5.52%) Software Engineering Manager
6 9 (5.52%) Software Manager
7 8 (4.91%) Quantitative Developer
7 8 (4.91%) Software Engineer
8 7 (4.29%) Consultant
8 7 (4.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 7 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (3.68%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.68%) Senior Data Scientist
9 6 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) React
2 11 (6.75%) FIX Protocol
3 9 (5.52%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.91%) LangChain
5 7 (4.29%) Redux
5 7 (4.29%) Vue
5 7 (4.29%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.29%) XGBoost
6 6 (3.68%) Backbone.js
6 6 (3.68%) JSON
6 6 (3.68%) LangGraph
6 6 (3.68%) PySpark
6 6 (3.68%) PyTorch
6 6 (3.68%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.07%) Hugging Face
7 5 (3.07%) Kafka
8 4 (2.45%) JSON Schema
8 4 (2.45%) Pandas
8 4 (2.45%) Spring
8 4 (2.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 50 (30.67%) Data Structures
2 35 (21.47%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (9.20%) Derivative
4 14 (8.59%) AI Agents
4 14 (8.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (6.75%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.52%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.29%) Robotics
8 5 (3.07%) Credit Risk
8 5 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.07%) Fixed Income
9 4 (2.45%) Equities
9 4 (2.45%) Exotic Derivative
9 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.45%) OTC Derivatives
10 3 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.84%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.84%) Self-Driving Car
11 2 (1.23%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.68%) Linux
1 6 (3.68%) Unix
2 2 (1.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.72%) AI
2 65 (39.88%) Machine Learning
3 47 (28.83%) Computer Science
4 42 (25.77%) Data Science
4 42 (25.77%) Software Engineering
5 32 (19.63%) CI/CD
5 32 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (17.79%) Validation
7 27 (16.56%) Analytics
7 27 (16.56%) Low Latency
8 25 (15.34%) Mathematics
9 23 (14.11%) Observability
10 22 (13.50%) Multithreading
11 21 (12.88%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (12.27%) Agile
13 19 (11.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (11.04%) Code Quality
14 18 (11.04%) Fraud Detection
15 17 (10.43%) LLM
15 17 (10.43%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (46.01%) Python
2 55 (33.74%) Java
3 38 (23.31%) SQL
4 27 (16.56%) JavaScript
5 26 (15.95%) C++
6 17 (10.43%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.98%) Rust
8 11 (6.75%) C#
9 8 (4.91%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
11 5 (3.07%) Scala
12 4 (2.45%) C
12 4 (2.45%) R
13 3 (1.84%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.84%) SPARQL
14 2 (1.23%) Go
15 1 (0.61%) Bash
15 1 (0.61%) PHP
15 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (26.99%) Degree
2 19 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.20%) Master's Degree
5 12 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (6.75%) PhD
7 7 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.45%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.23%) CISM
9 2 (1.23%) CISSP
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.07%) Basel III
3 4 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.45%) GDPR
3 4 (2.45%) NIST
4 3 (1.84%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.23%) MISRA
5 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.23%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.13%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (7.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.84%) Functional Safety
3 2 (1.23%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.61%) Istio
4 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.29%) Google
2 7 (4.29%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.68%) Databricks
4 5 (3.07%) SAP
4 5 (3.07%) Solace
5 4 (2.45%) IFS
6 2 (1.23%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.23%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.61%) Calypso
7 1 (0.61%) F5
7 1 (0.61%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.61%) Murex
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.61%) Reuters
7 1 (0.61%) Sitecore