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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 225 196
Rank change year-on-year -64 -29 +45
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 166 153 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.14% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 2.98% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 122 161
10th Percentile £434 £400 £400
25th Percentile £563 £490 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £590 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -12.59% -3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £756 £813
90th Percentile £886 £873 £875
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
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% -41.67%
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% +57.14%

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 7,626 5,130 5,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.72% 38.10% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,773 3,361 3,725
10th Percentile £354 £333 £331
25th Percentile £450 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £748
90th Percentile £788 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 120 79
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.21 £22.90
Median hourly rate £32.63 £27.25 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +19.72% -13.82% -9.66%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.15 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.37% -37.70% +14.50%

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 29 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 29 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
West London -14 7 £650 +23.81% 33
Central London -41 7 £705 +12.80% 33
East London +3 1 £432 -35.04% 2
South London -18 1 £650 -11.86% 4
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 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.41%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.60%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.61%) ProductWriter
1 6 (3.61%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.29%) GCP
2 32 (19.28%) Azure
3 22 (13.25%) AWS
4 14 (8.43%) GitHub
5 5 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.01%) Google Gemini
6 4 (2.41%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (2.41%) dbt
6 4 (2.41%) Vertex AI
7 3 (1.81%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (1.81%) Azure AI
7 3 (1.81%) Power Platform
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%) Dagster
8 2 (1.20%) OCI
9 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.63%) HTTP
2 6 (3.61%) Multicast
3 4 (2.41%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.81%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.81%) DNS
4 3 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.81%) Firewall
4 3 (1.81%) Network Security
4 3 (1.81%) SSL
4 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) DMZ
5 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.42%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.22%) KDB
3 3 (1.81%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.81%) Power BI
3 3 (1.81%) Redis
3 3 (1.81%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.20%) Big Data
4 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.20%) Kdb+
4 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.20%) Tableau
4 2 (1.20%) TigerGraph
5 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.60%) Metadata
5 1 (0.60%) MySQL
5 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (7.23%) Git
2 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.81%) MLflow
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
3 2 (1.20%) JIRA
3 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.60%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 51 (30.72%) Finance
2 36 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 31 (18.67%) Banking
4 26 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.64%) Investment Banking
6 14 (8.43%) Front Office
7 8 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.82%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.22%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.61%) Automotive
9 6 (3.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.41%) Advertising
10 4 (2.41%) Electronics
10 4 (2.41%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.81%) Aviation
12 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Law
12 2 (1.20%) Marketing
12 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (27.11%) Developer
2 36 (21.69%) Senior
3 19 (11.45%) Data Scientist
4 15 (9.04%) Java Developer
5 11 (6.63%) Lead
5 11 (6.63%) Quantitative Developer
5 11 (6.63%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.02%) Consultant
7 9 (5.42%) Architect
7 9 (5.42%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.42%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.42%) Software Engineering Manager
7 9 (5.42%) Software Manager
8 8 (4.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 8 (4.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (4.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) Robotics Engineer
10 6 (3.61%) SAP Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.24%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (9.04%) React
3 12 (7.23%) scikit-learn
4 9 (5.42%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.82%) LangChain
5 8 (4.82%) Pandas
5 8 (4.82%) PyTorch
5 8 (4.82%) WebSockets
6 7 (4.22%) Redux
6 7 (4.22%) Vue
7 6 (3.61%) Backbone.js
7 6 (3.61%) JSON
7 6 (3.61%) Kafka
7 6 (3.61%) LangGraph
7 6 (3.61%) PySpark
7 6 (3.61%) Spring
7 6 (3.61%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.61%) Ultra Messaging
8 5 (3.01%) Hugging Face
8 5 (3.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.52%) Data Structures
2 39 (23.49%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (11.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 18 (10.84%) Derivative
5 12 (7.23%) AI Agents
6 9 (5.42%) Cloud Native
7 8 (4.82%) Equities
7 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
8 7 (4.22%) Robotics
9 5 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.41%) Augmented Reality
10 4 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.41%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.41%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.41%) IoT
10 4 (2.41%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (2.41%) Virtual Reality
11 3 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.81%) Linux
2 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.35%) AI
1 62 (37.35%) Machine Learning
2 48 (28.92%) Computer Science
3 41 (24.70%) Software Engineering
4 35 (21.08%) Data Science
5 33 (19.88%) Low Latency
5 33 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (18.67%) CI/CD
6 31 (18.67%) Multithreading
7 25 (15.06%) Mathematics
8 23 (13.86%) Agile
8 23 (13.86%) Observability
8 23 (13.86%) Validation
9 22 (13.25%) Analytics
9 22 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (12.05%) Microservices
11 18 (10.84%) Containerisation
11 18 (10.84%) Performance Optimisation
12 17 (10.24%) Electronic Trading
12 17 (10.24%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 74 (44.58%) Python
2 59 (35.54%) Java
3 36 (21.69%) SQL
4 25 (15.06%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.46%) C++
6 18 (10.84%) TypeScript
7 16 (9.64%) C#
8 12 (7.23%) Rust
9 9 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.41%) Scala
11 3 (1.81%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.81%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.81%) R
11 3 (1.81%) SPARQL
12 2 (1.20%) Go
13 1 (0.60%) Bash
13 1 (0.60%) DAML
13 1 (0.60%) Ruby
13 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.60%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 41 (24.70%) Degree
2 16 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.83%) Master's Degree
5 12 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.02%) PhD
7 8 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.20%) CISM
9 2 (1.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.01%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.41%) NIST
3 3 (1.81%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.81%) 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%) MISRA
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (6.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.41%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.81%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.60%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.22%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.61%) SAP
3 6 (3.61%) Solace
4 5 (3.01%) Databricks
4 5 (3.01%) Google
5 4 (2.41%) IFS
6 3 (1.81%) F5
7 2 (1.20%) Duck Creek
7 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.20%) IBM
8 1 (0.60%) Calypso
8 1 (0.60%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.60%) Murex
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle
8 1 (0.60%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.60%) Sitecore