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 10 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 206 212
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 168 178 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 1.14% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.99% 3.34% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 130 141
10th Percentile £370 £398 £376
25th Percentile £432 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -4.11%
75th Percentile £875 £797 £825
90th Percentile £1,050 £913 £875
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £41.73 - £42.50
25th Percentile £42.44 £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £44.75 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £46.94 £53.75 £63.01
90th Percentile £47.58 - £65.57
England median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +27.62% -8.70% +1.13%

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 5,610 5,325 6,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.24% 34.13% 33.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,591 3,406 4,672
10th Percentile £334 £325 £325
25th Percentile £427 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 105
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.84
25th Percentile £19.95 £25.17 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +17.50% -10.21%
75th Percentile £45.05 £56.69 £49.08
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £64.81
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 2025. 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 +1 27 £638 -5.56% 21
South London - 4 £800 -
West London - 3 £525 - 1
North London - 1 - -
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 10 (5.95%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.36%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.79%) Apache
3 3 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.19%) Confluence
4 2 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.19%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.60%) Actimize
3 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.45%) Azure
2 28 (16.67%) AWS
3 15 (8.93%) GCP
4 14 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.76%) Vertex AI
6 7 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.38%) GitHub
8 4 (2.38%) Serverless
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.79%) PaaS
10 2 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.19%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.19%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.19%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (1.19%) IBM Watson
10 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) SNMP
1 2 (1.19%) SSH
1 2 (1.19%) SSL
2 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.93%) KDB
2 14 (8.33%) Kdb+
3 12 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.14%) Power BI
4 11 (6.55%) Tableau
5 10 (5.95%) Big Data
6 8 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 8 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.98%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.38%) DB2
9 4 (2.38%) MemSQL
9 4 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.38%) Sybase IQ
10 3 (1.79%) Spatial Data
11 2 (1.19%) GIS
11 2 (1.19%) Neo4j
11 2 (1.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Git
2 7 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.57%) JIRA
4 5 (2.98%) QUnit
5 3 (1.79%) GitLab
6 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.19%) GoCD
6 2 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.19%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) TestNG
7 1 (0.60%) TestRail
7 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 49 (29.17%) Finance
3 41 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (22.02%) Front Office
5 19 (11.31%) Banking
6 7 (4.17%) Retail
7 5 (2.98%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.98%) Legal
7 5 (2.98%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.98%) Marketing
7 5 (2.98%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.38%) Publishing
9 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 75 (44.64%) Developer
2 21 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 21 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 19 (11.31%) Senior
4 16 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 16 (9.52%) Quantitative Developer
5 12 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 12 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 9 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (5.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 8 (4.76%) Analyst
7 8 (4.76%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 8 (4.76%) Linux Developer
7 8 (4.76%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 7 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.17%) Lead
8 7 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 6 (3.57%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 5 (2.98%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.10%) scikit-learn
2 19 (11.31%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (9.52%) TensorFlow
4 15 (8.93%) Pandas
5 13 (7.74%) PyTorch
6 11 (6.55%) NumPy
7 10 (5.95%) Matplotlib
8 9 (5.36%) REST
9 8 (4.76%) React
9 8 (4.76%) XGBoost
10 6 (3.57%) PySpark
10 6 (3.57%) XML
11 5 (2.98%) CSS
11 5 (2.98%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.98%) HTML
12 4 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.38%) JSON
12 4 (2.38%) Seaborn
12 4 (2.38%) Ultra Messaging
13 3 (1.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.17%) Data Structures
2 20 (11.90%) Fixed Income
2 20 (11.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (9.52%) Equities
4 15 (8.93%) Derivative
5 13 (7.74%) Product Ownership
6 12 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.76%) Cloud Native
8 7 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (2.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.38%) Operational Technology
10 4 (2.38%) Replication
10 4 (2.38%) SCADA
11 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.69%) Linux
2 13 (7.74%) Unix
3 2 (1.19%) Windows
3 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 47 (27.98%) Data Science
3 46 (27.38%) Computer Science
3 46 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (25.60%) AI
5 40 (23.81%) Analytics
6 35 (20.83%) Mathematics
7 32 (19.05%) Agile
8 29 (17.26%) CI/CD
8 29 (17.26%) Visualisation
9 28 (16.67%) Low Latency
10 25 (14.88%) Data Engineering
10 25 (14.88%) Decision-Making
11 24 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 23 (13.69%) Multithreading
13 22 (13.10%) Natural Language Processing
13 22 (13.10%) Risk Management
14 20 (11.90%) Data Analysis
14 20 (11.90%) Data Modelling
14 20 (11.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (61.31%) Python
2 42 (25.00%) SQL
3 31 (18.45%) Java
4 20 (11.90%) C++
5 15 (8.93%) C#
6 11 (6.55%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.57%) Bash
9 5 (2.98%) R
9 5 (2.98%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.38%) Go
11 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.19%) Rust
11 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.19%) VBA
11 2 (1.19%) VC++
12 1 (0.60%) Cypher
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (21.43%) Degree
2 17 (10.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (7.74%) Master's Degree
4 8 (4.76%) PhD
5 7 (4.17%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (4.17%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.79%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.19%) CEH
8 2 (1.19%) CISSP
8 2 (1.19%) MCP
9 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) GIAC
9 1 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.19%) EMIR
3 2 (1.19%) EU AI Act
3 2 (1.19%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.19%) NIST
3 2 (1.19%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.19%) PMO
3 2 (1.19%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.36%) Terraform
3 4 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.38%) Kibana
3 4 (2.38%) logstash
4 2 (1.19%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) rkt
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.36%) Google
3 6 (3.57%) Splunk
4 4 (2.38%) Solace
4 4 (2.38%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.19%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.19%) Cognos
6 2 (1.19%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.19%) Foundry
6 2 (1.19%) IBM
6 2 (1.19%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle
6 2 (1.19%) Sage
6 2 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.19%) Temenos
6 2 (1.19%) Thales
7 1 (0.60%) Reuters
7 1 (0.60%) SAP