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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 212 199
Rank change year-on-year -68 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 167 150 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.11% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 2.96% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 115 158
10th Percentile £425 £400 £388
25th Percentile £550 £483 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £788 £744 £825
90th Percentile £886 £850 £888
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £85.75 £29.08 £43.75
25th Percentile £86.25 £31.44 £47.50
Median hourly rate £87.50 £37.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +134.90% -29.05% -10.64%
75th Percentile £88.75 £42.44 £56.56
90th Percentile - £44.43 £57.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% +21.82% +120.00%

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 7,504 5,073 5,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.22% 37.38% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,688 3,346 3,812
10th Percentile £356 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £748
90th Percentile £800 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 117 83
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.37
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.82% -13.83%
75th Percentile £56.88 £45.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +41.81% -34.74% +17.79%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -42 9 £705 +13.94% 28
West London -11 8 £550 +4.76% 11
East London +4 1 £432 -35.04% 3
South London -14 1 £650 +4.00%
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 8 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.80%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.59%) ProductWriter
1 6 (3.59%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.76%) GCP
2 31 (18.56%) Azure
3 27 (16.17%) AWS
4 14 (8.38%) GitHub
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.99%) Dagster
5 5 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (2.99%) Google Gemini
6 4 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (2.40%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (1.80%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.80%) dbt
7 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.80%) Vertex AI
8 2 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.20%) AWS KMS
8 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.59%) HTTP
2 6 (3.59%) Multicast
3 4 (2.40%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.80%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.80%) DNS
4 3 (1.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.80%) Firewall
4 3 (1.80%) Network Security
4 3 (1.80%) SSL
4 3 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) DMZ
5 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.79%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.19%) KDB
3 4 (2.40%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.80%) Big Data
4 3 (1.80%) Power BI
4 3 (1.80%) Redis
4 3 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.20%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.20%) Tableau
5 2 (1.20%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) MySQL
6 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.38%) Git
2 4 (2.40%) MLflow
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
3 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.60%) Gradle
4 1 (0.60%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.60%) webpack
General
1 47 (28.14%) Finance
2 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.56%) Banking
4 29 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.58%) Investment Banking
6 15 (8.98%) Front Office
7 9 (5.39%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.79%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.19%) Aerospace
10 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.99%) Automotive
12 4 (2.40%) Advertising
12 4 (2.40%) Electronics
12 4 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.80%) Aviation
13 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.80%) Marketing
13 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (25.75%) Developer
2 38 (22.75%) Senior
3 24 (14.37%) Data Scientist
4 16 (9.58%) Java Developer
5 11 (6.59%) Quantitative Developer
5 11 (6.59%) Senior Developer
6 10 (5.99%) Consultant
6 10 (5.99%) Lead
7 9 (5.39%) Architect
7 9 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.59%) Machine Learning Consultant
10 6 (3.59%) SAP Integration Consultant
10 6 (3.59%) Senior Data Scientist
10 6 (3.59%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (8.98%) React
2 15 (8.98%) scikit-learn
3 10 (5.99%) PyTorch
4 9 (5.39%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.79%) LangChain
5 8 (4.79%) Pandas
5 8 (4.79%) Redux
5 8 (4.79%) Spring
5 8 (4.79%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.79%) WebSockets
6 7 (4.19%) Kafka
6 7 (4.19%) TensorFlow
6 7 (4.19%) Vue
7 6 (3.59%) Backbone.js
7 6 (3.59%) JSON
7 6 (3.59%) LangGraph
7 6 (3.59%) PySpark
7 6 (3.59%) Ultra Messaging
8 5 (2.99%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 47 (28.14%) Data Structures
2 36 (21.56%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (11.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (10.78%) Derivative
5 12 (7.19%) AI Agents
6 10 (5.99%) Product Ownership
7 9 (5.39%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.39%) Equities
8 6 (3.59%) Robotics
9 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.40%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.40%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.40%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.40%) IoT
10 4 (2.40%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.40%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (1.80%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.80%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.92%) Machine Learning
2 59 (35.33%) AI
3 45 (26.95%) Computer Science
4 39 (23.35%) Data Science
5 38 (22.75%) Software Engineering
6 34 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (19.16%) CI/CD
7 32 (19.16%) Low Latency
8 30 (17.96%) Multithreading
9 25 (14.97%) Analytics
9 25 (14.97%) Mathematics
10 24 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (13.77%) Observability
12 22 (13.17%) Validation
13 21 (12.57%) Agile
13 21 (12.57%) Microservices
14 19 (11.38%) Containerisation
15 18 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (10.78%) Electronic Trading
16 17 (10.18%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 76 (45.51%) Python
2 53 (31.74%) Java
3 38 (22.75%) SQL
4 23 (13.77%) JavaScript
5 21 (12.57%) C++
6 18 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.38%) C#
8 12 (7.19%) Rust
9 9 (5.39%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.99%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.40%) R
11 4 (2.40%) Scala
12 3 (1.80%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.80%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.20%) Go
14 1 (0.60%) DAML
14 1 (0.60%) PHP
14 1 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.60%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 41 (24.55%) Degree
2 16 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.19%) Master's Degree
5 11 (6.59%) PhD
6 10 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.80%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) MISRA
5 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 13 (7.78%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.80%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.80%) Kubeflow
3 2 (1.20%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.19%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.59%) Google
3 6 (3.59%) IFS
3 6 (3.59%) SAP
3 6 (3.59%) Solace
4 5 (2.99%) Databricks
5 3 (1.80%) F5
6 2 (1.20%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.20%) IBM
7 1 (0.60%) Adobe
7 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.60%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.60%) Botify
7 1 (0.60%) Calypso
7 1 (0.60%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.60%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.60%) Murex
7 1 (0.60%) Pegasus