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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 212 201
Rank change year-on-year -70 -11 +39
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 175 156 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.16% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 3.04% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 126 153
10th Percentile £431 £400 £425
25th Percentile £550 £461 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £630
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.73% -10.00%
75th Percentile £783 £763 £788
90th Percentile £875 £893 £875
England median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £85.75 - £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% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £32.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.78% +37.14% +50.00%

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 7,722 5,139 5,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.96% 38.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,850 3,326 3,616
10th Percentile £352 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 118 69
10th Percentile £17.38 £16.30 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -11.29% +0.81%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £70.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%

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 17 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 17 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 -51 7 £705 +12.80% 64
West London -19 5 - - 33
East London +2 1 £432 -35.04% 5
South London -14 1 £650 -18.75% 5
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 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.71%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) Solana
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.57%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.57%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP IBP
2 5 (2.86%) ProductWriter
3 2 (1.14%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.86%) GCP
2 33 (18.86%) Azure
3 24 (13.71%) AWS
4 15 (8.57%) GitHub
5 8 (4.57%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.86%) Google Gemini
7 4 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.71%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.71%) dbt
8 3 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.71%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.71%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.71%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.14%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.14%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.29%) HTTP
2 6 (3.43%) Multicast
3 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.71%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.71%) DNS
4 3 (1.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.71%) Firewall
4 3 (1.71%) Network Security
4 3 (1.71%) SSL
4 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.57%) DMZ
5 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.57%) KDB
3 4 (2.29%) Big Data
3 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.71%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.71%) Kdb+
4 3 (1.71%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.71%) Power BI
4 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.14%) Redis
5 2 (1.14%) Tableau
5 2 (1.14%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Git
2 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) JIRA
4 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.57%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) QUnit
4 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (31.43%) Finance
2 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 35 (20.00%) Banking
4 31 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.14%) Investment Banking
6 14 (8.00%) Front Office
7 9 (5.14%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.57%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.00%) Aerospace
10 6 (3.43%) Automotive
10 6 (3.43%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.29%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.71%) Advertising
12 3 (1.71%) Electronics
13 2 (1.14%) Aviation
13 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.14%) Marketing
13 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (24.57%) Developer
2 38 (21.71%) Senior
3 23 (13.14%) Data Scientist
4 15 (8.57%) Java Developer
5 12 (6.86%) Senior Developer
6 11 (6.29%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.29%) Lead
7 9 (5.14%) Architect
7 9 (5.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (5.14%) Consultant
7 9 (5.14%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.14%) Quantitative Developer
7 9 (5.14%) Software Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.14%) Software Manager
8 8 (4.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (4.57%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 6 (3.43%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.71%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (7.43%) React
3 9 (5.14%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.57%) LangChain
4 8 (4.57%) scikit-learn
4 8 (4.57%) WebSockets
5 7 (4.00%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.00%) Redux
5 7 (4.00%) Vue
5 7 (4.00%) XGBoost
6 6 (3.43%) Backbone.js
6 6 (3.43%) JSON
6 6 (3.43%) LangGraph
6 6 (3.43%) PySpark
6 6 (3.43%) Ultra Messaging
7 5 (2.86%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.86%) Kafka
7 5 (2.86%) Pandas
7 5 (2.86%) Spring
7 5 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (30.29%) Data Structures
2 41 (23.43%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (9.71%) Derivative
5 15 (8.57%) AI Agents
6 11 (6.29%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.57%) Equities
9 7 (4.00%) Robotics
10 5 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.86%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.29%) Credit Risk
11 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.29%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.29%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (1.71%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.71%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Unix
2 4 (2.29%) Linux
3 2 (1.14%) Windows
4 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (40.57%) AI
2 67 (38.29%) Machine Learning
3 49 (28.00%) Computer Science
4 43 (24.57%) Data Science
4 43 (24.57%) Software Engineering
5 36 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (18.86%) CI/CD
7 32 (18.29%) Low Latency
8 29 (16.57%) Multithreading
9 28 (16.00%) Analytics
9 28 (16.00%) Mathematics
9 28 (16.00%) Validation
10 24 (13.71%) Observability
11 22 (12.57%) Agile
12 20 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (10.29%) Code Quality
13 18 (10.29%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (10.29%) Microservices
14 17 (9.71%) LLM
14 17 (9.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.71%) Python
2 62 (35.43%) Java
3 39 (22.29%) SQL
4 28 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.43%) C++
6 18 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.57%) Rust
8 14 (8.00%) C#
9 9 (5.14%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.86%) Scala
10 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.29%) C
11 4 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.29%) R
12 3 (1.71%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.71%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.14%) Go
14 1 (0.57%) Bash
14 1 (0.57%) PHP
14 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (26.29%) Degree
2 19 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.57%) Master's Degree
5 12 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (6.86%) PhD
6 8 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.14%) CISM
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.29%) Basel III
2 4 (2.29%) GDPR
2 4 (2.29%) NIST
3 3 (1.71%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.14%) MISRA
4 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.71%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.71%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.00%) Databricks
2 7 (4.00%) Google
2 7 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.43%) SAP
4 5 (2.86%) Solace
5 4 (2.29%) IFS
6 3 (1.71%) F5
7 2 (1.14%) Duck Creek
7 2 (1.14%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.14%) IBM
7 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.57%) Calypso
8 1 (0.57%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.57%) Murex
8 1 (0.57%) Oracle
8 1 (0.57%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.57%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.57%) YouTube