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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 200 236
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 -20
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 167 192 210
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.19% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.21% 3.53% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 141 152
10th Percentile £396 £400 £376
25th Percentile £456 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £766 £813 £825
90th Percentile £981 £913 £898
England median daily rate £550 £609 £625
% change year-on-year -9.69% -2.56% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £47.25 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +16.67% +109.30%
75th Percentile £32.50 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £51.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year +40.49% +13.89% -10.50%

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 5,208 5,442 7,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.93% 33.85% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 3,505 5,182
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £442 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £825
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 71 89
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.50 £18.74
25th Percentile £23.23 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £33.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +12.50% +3.00%
75th Percentile £46.88 £56.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.75 £72.73
England median hourly rate £29.50 £52.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -44.08% +14.23% +78.92%

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 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 15 October 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 +6 30 £625 -11.97% 37
South London +5 8 £775 - 5
West London - 3 £525 - 8
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 14 (8.38%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.40%) Confluence
2 4 (2.40%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.16%) Azure
2 20 (11.98%) AWS
3 16 (9.58%) GCP
4 10 (5.99%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.99%) GitHub
6 4 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (2.40%) Vertex AI
7 3 (1.80%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.80%) PaaS
8 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.20%) dbt
8 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.20%) Serverless
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.60%) Azure AI
9 1 (0.60%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.60%) Dialogflow
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.40%) SSL
3 2 (1.20%) SNMP
3 2 (1.20%) SSH
4 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
4 1 (0.60%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.38%) NoSQL
2 13 (7.78%) KDB
3 12 (7.19%) Hadoop
3 12 (7.19%) Tableau
4 11 (6.59%) Kdb+
5 10 (5.99%) Big Data
5 10 (5.99%) Power BI
6 8 (4.79%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (3.59%) DB2
7 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.59%) MemSQL
7 6 (3.59%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.59%) Sybase IQ
8 5 (2.99%) GIS
8 5 (2.99%) QGIS
9 4 (2.40%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.40%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.80%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (13.77%) Git
2 12 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.99%) JIRA
4 5 (2.99%) GitLab
4 5 (2.99%) JUnit
4 5 (2.99%) QUnit
5 3 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.80%) Selenium
5 3 (1.80%) TestNG
5 3 (1.80%) TestRail
5 3 (1.80%) WebDriver
5 3 (1.80%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.20%) GoCD
6 2 (1.20%) MLflow
6 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 64 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.94%) Finance
3 48 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (22.16%) Front Office
5 22 (13.17%) Banking
6 11 (6.59%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.39%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.59%) Retail
10 5 (2.99%) Back Office
10 5 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.40%) Marketing
12 3 (1.80%) Legal
12 3 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.80%) Police
13 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (40.12%) Developer
2 19 (11.38%) Data Scientist
3 17 (10.18%) Python Developer
3 17 (10.18%) Senior
4 15 (8.98%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.19%) Lead
6 11 (6.59%) Quantitative Developer
7 9 (5.39%) Analyst
8 8 (4.79%) Architect
8 8 (4.79%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Consultant
9 7 (4.19%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.59%) React Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Tester
11 5 (2.99%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Haskell Developer
11 5 (2.99%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.38%) TensorFlow
2 18 (10.78%) scikit-learn
3 16 (9.58%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (8.38%) Pandas
5 12 (7.19%) REST
6 11 (6.59%) PyTorch
7 8 (4.79%) CSS
7 8 (4.79%) HTML
8 7 (4.19%) PySpark
8 7 (4.19%) React
9 6 (3.59%) NumPy
9 6 (3.59%) XML
10 5 (2.99%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.99%) FpML
10 5 (2.99%) GeoPandas
10 5 (2.99%) Middleware
10 5 (2.99%) PostGIS
10 5 (2.99%) SOAP
10 5 (2.99%) Ultra Messaging
11 4 (2.40%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 52 (31.14%) Data Structures
2 20 (11.98%) Fixed Income
3 17 (10.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (10.18%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.78%) Derivative
5 11 (6.59%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (4.19%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.59%) Equities
9 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (2.40%) Operational Technology
10 4 (2.40%) PKI
10 4 (2.40%) Replication
10 4 (2.40%) SCADA
11 3 (1.80%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.57%) Linux
2 9 (5.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.31%) Machine Learning
2 55 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (28.74%) Computer Science
4 44 (26.35%) Data Science
5 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
6 37 (22.16%) AI
7 35 (20.96%) Mathematics
8 34 (20.36%) Analytics
9 33 (19.76%) Agile
10 26 (15.57%) Visualisation
11 25 (14.97%) DevOps
12 24 (14.37%) Data Modelling
12 24 (14.37%) Decision-Making
12 24 (14.37%) Risk Management
12 24 (14.37%) Software Engineering
13 21 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (11.98%) Low Latency
15 18 (10.78%) LLM
16 17 (10.18%) Multithreading
17 16 (9.58%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 97 (58.08%) Python
2 51 (30.54%) SQL
3 33 (19.76%) Java
4 16 (9.58%) C++
5 13 (7.78%) C#
6 11 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.39%) R
8 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.99%) Haskell
10 4 (2.40%) Bash
10 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.80%) OCaml
11 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.20%) Go
12 2 (1.20%) Rust
12 2 (1.20%) VBA
12 2 (1.20%) VC++
13 1 (0.60%) C
13 1 (0.60%) Cypher
13 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (19.16%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.98%) Master's Degree
4 13 (7.78%) Security Cleared
5 11 (6.59%) PhD
6 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.59%) CISSP
8 4 (2.40%) CISM
9 3 (1.80%) GIAC
9 3 (1.80%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.20%) CEH
10 2 (1.20%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.20%) MCP
10 2 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.20%) SANS
11 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) QA
2 6 (3.59%) NIST
3 4 (2.40%) GDPR
3 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.80%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.20%) EMIR
5 2 (1.20%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.99%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.99%) Terraform
3 4 (2.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.40%) Kibana
3 4 (2.40%) logstash
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
4 2 (1.20%) rkt
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.79%) Databricks
3 6 (3.59%) Google
3 6 (3.59%) Splunk
4 4 (2.40%) Solace
4 4 (2.40%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.80%) Duck Creek
5 3 (1.80%) Foundry
5 3 (1.80%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle
6 2 (1.20%) OutSystems
6 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.20%) Temenos
6 2 (1.20%) Thales
7 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.60%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.60%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.60%) Reuters