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 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 218 194
Rank change year-on-year -38 -24 +27
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 151 131 222
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.05% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 2.92% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 92 161
10th Percentile £439 £415 £428
25th Percentile £500 £518 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +0.04% -7.14%
75th Percentile £863 £791 £825
90th Percentile £1,050 £850 £950
England median daily rate £550 £650 £598
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.79% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 15
10th Percentile £47.55 £44.85 £41.75
25th Percentile £77.25 £47.25 £47.13
Median hourly rate £87.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £56.25 £63.52
90th Percentile - £57.75 £69.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +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 6,330 4,491 5,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.60% 36.05% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,049 3,042 4,170
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £445 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 76 153
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.08 £23.42 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +36.33% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.88 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.58 £68.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £35.45 £32.12
% change year-on-year +34.01% +10.37% +42.83%

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 8 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in London

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 8 May 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 - 15 £650 - 6
Central London -25 14 £575 - 31
South London - 2 £556 - 1
East London -6 1 £432 -35.04% 6
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 12 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.99%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.66%) Solana
Applications
1 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.66%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 6 (3.97%) ProductWriter
1 6 (3.97%) SAP IBP
2 4 (2.65%) Bloomberg AIM
2 4 (2.65%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 36 (23.84%) AWS
2 17 (11.26%) Azure
3 14 (9.27%) GCP
4 9 (5.96%) Amazon SageMaker
5 8 (5.30%) Dagster
5 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (3.97%) GitHub
7 6 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.97%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.65%) Serverless
9 3 (1.99%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.99%) dbt
9 3 (1.99%) Google Gemini
10 2 (1.32%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.32%) IBM Watson
10 2 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.30%) HTTP
2 4 (2.65%) SSL
3 3 (1.99%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.99%) DNS
3 3 (1.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.99%) Firewall
3 3 (1.99%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.99%) Multicast
3 3 (1.99%) Network Security
3 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.30%) Power BI
2 7 (4.64%) KDB
3 6 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.31%) Big Data
4 5 (3.31%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.31%) Tableau
5 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.99%) Kdb+
6 3 (1.99%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.99%) Weaviate
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.32%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (7.95%) Git
2 6 (3.97%) MLflow
3 3 (1.99%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.32%) GitLab
4 2 (1.32%) Gradle
4 2 (1.32%) JUnit
4 2 (1.32%) Maven
4 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.66%) Ant
5 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.66%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.66%) JIRA
5 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.66%) webpack
General
1 36 (23.84%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (21.85%) Finance
2 33 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 25 (16.56%) Banking
4 22 (14.57%) Front Office
5 13 (8.61%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.97%) Aviation
8 4 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.99%) Retail
10 2 (1.32%) Advertising
10 2 (1.32%) Electronics
10 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Marketing
10 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Police
11 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (35.76%) Developer
2 28 (18.54%) Senior
3 26 (17.22%) Data Scientist
4 15 (9.93%) Python Developer
5 14 (9.27%) Java Developer
6 13 (8.61%) C++ Developer
6 13 (8.61%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (6.62%) Lead
8 8 (5.30%) Architect
8 8 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Consultant
8 8 (5.30%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.64%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Linux Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Senior Data Scientist
10 6 (3.97%) Integration Consultant
10 6 (3.97%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (3.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (15.89%) scikit-learn
2 19 (12.58%) FIX Protocol
2 19 (12.58%) PyTorch
3 17 (11.26%) TensorFlow
4 12 (7.95%) Pandas
5 9 (5.96%) Kafka
5 9 (5.96%) NumPy
5 9 (5.96%) React
5 9 (5.96%) Spring
5 9 (5.96%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.30%) REST
7 7 (4.64%) Seaborn
8 6 (3.97%) LangChain
8 6 (3.97%) Matplotlib
8 6 (3.97%) Middleware
8 6 (3.97%) XGBoost
9 5 (3.31%) Electron
9 5 (3.31%) OpenFin
9 5 (3.31%) WebSockets
10 4 (2.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.50%) Data Structures
2 24 (15.89%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (15.89%) Equities
3 17 (11.26%) Derivative
4 15 (9.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.30%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.64%) Equity Derivative
6 7 (4.64%) Fixed Income
7 6 (3.97%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.97%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.99%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.32%) IoT
10 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.28%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Solaris
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (43.05%) Machine Learning
2 51 (33.77%) AI
3 39 (25.83%) Data Science
4 36 (23.84%) CI/CD
5 33 (21.85%) Analytics
5 33 (21.85%) Computer Science
6 31 (20.53%) Multithreading
7 30 (19.87%) Low Latency
8 25 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (15.89%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (14.57%) Electronic Trading
10 22 (14.57%) Mathematics
10 22 (14.57%) Test Automation
11 19 (12.58%) Agile
11 19 (12.58%) Data Engineering
11 19 (12.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (12.58%) Microservices
11 19 (12.58%) Natural Language Processing
12 18 (11.92%) Containerisation
12 18 (11.92%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (58.28%) Python
2 39 (25.83%) SQL
3 34 (22.52%) Java
4 21 (13.91%) C++
5 14 (9.27%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.61%) C#
7 7 (4.64%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.97%) Rust
9 5 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.65%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.99%) R
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) Go
13 1 (0.66%) DAML
13 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.66%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 28 (18.54%) Degree
2 9 (5.96%) Master's Degree
3 8 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.64%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (4.64%) PhD
4 7 (4.64%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.97%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.97%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.99%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (7.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.66%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.31%) Grafana
3 4 (2.65%) Terraform
4 3 (1.99%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.66%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.66%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.66%) Istio
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (3.97%) Google
1 6 (3.97%) SAP
1 6 (3.97%) Solace
2 5 (3.31%) Databricks
2 5 (3.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.65%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.65%) Bloomberg
3 4 (2.65%) Charles River
3 4 (2.65%) IFS
3 4 (2.65%) ION Trading
3 4 (2.65%) Oracle
3 4 (2.65%) Splunk
4 3 (1.99%) F5
4 3 (1.99%) IBM
4 3 (1.99%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.32%) Cognos
5 2 (1.32%) Sage
6 1 (0.66%) Adobe
6 1 (0.66%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.66%) Pegasus