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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 212 220
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 170 170 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.19% 1.13% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.05% 3.30% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 120 137
10th Percentile £364 £398 £391
25th Percentile £432 £460 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £950 £775 £825
90th Percentile £1,070 £875 £913
England median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £41.73 - £42.50
25th Percentile £42.44 £51.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £44.75 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £46.94 £53.75 £64.53
90th Percentile £47.58 - £68.90
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 5,572 5,157 6,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.00% 34.22% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,572 3,296 4,547
10th Percentile £338 £325 £325
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 66 106
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.86
25th Percentile £19.84 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -12.82%
75th Percentile £45.65 £55.94 £49.68
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%

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 18 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 18 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 0 27 £638 +2.00% 22
South London - 5 £775 - 2
West London - 4 £525 - 4
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 9 (5.29%) Jupyter
2 8 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) Apache
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.18%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.59%) Actimize
3 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.59%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.65%) AWS
1 30 (17.65%) Azure
2 16 (9.41%) GCP
3 13 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.71%) Amazon SageMaker
5 8 (4.71%) Vertex AI
6 6 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.35%) GitHub
7 4 (2.35%) Serverless
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.76%) PaaS
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.18%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.18%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.18%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.18%) IBM Watson
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) SNMP
1 2 (1.18%) SSH
1 2 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (0.59%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.82%) KDB
2 14 (8.24%) Kdb+
3 12 (7.06%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.47%) Big Data
4 11 (6.47%) Power BI
5 9 (5.29%) Tableau
6 7 (4.12%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.12%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.35%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.35%) DB2
8 4 (2.35%) MemSQL
8 4 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.35%) Sybase IQ
9 3 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.76%) Spatial Data
9 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.18%) Neo4j
10 2 (1.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Git
2 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.94%) JIRA
3 5 (2.94%) QUnit
4 3 (1.76%) GitLab
4 3 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.18%) GoCD
5 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.59%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.59%) Gradle
6 1 (0.59%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.59%) Maven
6 1 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 51 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.41%) Finance
3 37 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (21.76%) Front Office
4 18 (10.59%) Banking
5 7 (4.12%) Retail
6 6 (3.53%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.94%) Legal
7 5 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.94%) Marketing
7 5 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.35%) Publishing
9 3 (1.76%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Aviation
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (45.88%) Developer
2 22 (12.94%) Data Scientist
3 20 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 19 (11.18%) Senior
5 17 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 17 (10.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 15 (8.82%) C++ Developer
7 13 (7.65%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.88%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 9 (5.29%) Linux Developer
9 9 (5.29%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Analyst
10 8 (4.71%) Lead
11 7 (4.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 7 (4.12%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.53%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
12 6 (3.53%) Senior C++ Developer
13 5 (2.94%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.53%) scikit-learn
2 19 (11.18%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (10.00%) TensorFlow
4 15 (8.82%) Pandas
4 15 (8.82%) PyTorch
5 10 (5.88%) Matplotlib
5 10 (5.88%) NumPy
5 10 (5.88%) XGBoost
6 8 (4.71%) React
6 8 (4.71%) REST
7 6 (3.53%) HTML
7 6 (3.53%) XML
8 5 (2.94%) CSS
8 5 (2.94%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.35%) Google JAX
9 4 (2.35%) JAX
9 4 (2.35%) JSON
9 4 (2.35%) Seaborn
9 4 (2.35%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 47 (27.65%) Data Structures
2 21 (12.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (11.76%) Equities
4 19 (11.18%) Fixed Income
5 17 (10.00%) Derivative
6 16 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (7.06%) Product Ownership
8 9 (5.29%) Cloud Native
8 9 (5.29%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (2.35%) Operational Technology
11 4 (2.35%) Replication
11 4 (2.35%) SCADA
12 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
13 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.53%) Linux
2 13 (7.65%) Unix
3 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Android
4 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (44.12%) Machine Learning
2 48 (28.24%) Data Science
3 46 (27.06%) AI
3 46 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (26.47%) Computer Science
5 39 (22.94%) Analytics
6 36 (21.18%) Mathematics
7 30 (17.65%) Agile
7 30 (17.65%) Low Latency
8 28 (16.47%) CI/CD
8 28 (16.47%) Visualisation
9 26 (15.29%) Decision-Making
9 26 (15.29%) Risk Management
10 25 (14.71%) Data Engineering
10 25 (14.71%) Multithreading
11 24 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (14.12%) Natural Language Processing
12 21 (12.35%) Data Analysis
12 21 (12.35%) Quantitative Finance
13 19 (11.18%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 104 (61.18%) Python
2 40 (23.53%) SQL
3 32 (18.82%) Java
4 23 (13.53%) C++
5 16 (9.41%) C#
6 11 (6.47%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.53%) Bash
9 5 (2.94%) R
9 5 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.35%) Go
11 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.18%) Rust
11 2 (1.18%) VBA
11 2 (1.18%) VC++
12 1 (0.59%) Cypher
12 1 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (21.76%) Degree
2 16 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.06%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.88%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (4.12%) PhD
5 7 (4.12%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.94%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.18%) CEH
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) MCP
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) QA
2 5 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.76%) SLA
4 2 (1.18%) EMIR
4 2 (1.18%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.18%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.18%) PMO
5 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.71%) Terraform
3 4 (2.35%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.35%) Kibana
3 4 (2.35%) logstash
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) rkt
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.59%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 16 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.29%) Google
3 6 (3.53%) Splunk
4 4 (2.35%) Solace
4 4 (2.35%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.76%) ION Trading
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle
6 2 (1.18%) Cognos
6 2 (1.18%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.18%) Foundry
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) Sage
6 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.18%) Temenos
6 2 (1.18%) Thales
7 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.59%) Databricks
7 1 (0.59%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.59%) Screaming Frog