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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 210 197
Rank change year-on-year -73 -13 +46
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 170 153 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.16% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 3.02% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 121 155
10th Percentile £429 £400 £406
25th Percentile £550 £490 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £763 £813
90th Percentile £875 £875 £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 4
10th Percentile £85.75 £29.08 £47.75
25th Percentile £86.25 £31.44 £50.00
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 £54.69
90th Percentile - £44.43 £56.38
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.72% +26.36% +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 7,578 5,066 5,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.77% 38.34% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,764 3,309 3,672
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £862
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 120 76
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.25 £23.21 £22.00
Median hourly rate £33.36 £27.81 £30.56
Median % change year-on-year +19.95% -8.99% -12.69%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
% change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%

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 4 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 4 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
West London -15 7 £650 +23.81% 36
Central London -47 7 £705 +12.80% 35
East London +3 1 £432 -35.04% 4
South London -15 1 £650 -11.86% 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 7 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) Solana
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.59%) CPLEX
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.53%) SAP IBP
2 5 (2.94%) ProductWriter
3 2 (1.18%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.35%) GCP
2 33 (19.41%) Azure
3 24 (14.12%) AWS
4 14 (8.24%) GitHub
5 7 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.94%) Google Gemini
7 4 (2.35%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.76%) Azure AI
8 3 (1.76%) dbt
8 3 (1.76%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.76%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.76%) Vertex AI
9 2 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.18%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.18%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.47%) HTTP
2 6 (3.53%) Multicast
3 4 (2.35%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.76%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.76%) DNS
4 3 (1.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.76%) Firewall
4 3 (1.76%) Network Security
4 3 (1.76%) SSL
4 3 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.59%) DMZ
5 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.59%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.47%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.71%) KDB
3 4 (2.35%) Big Data
3 4 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.76%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.76%) Kdb+
4 3 (1.76%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.76%) Power BI
4 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.18%) Redis
5 2 (1.18%) Tableau
5 2 (1.18%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.59%) MySQL
6 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (9.41%) Git
2 3 (1.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.76%) MLflow
3 2 (1.18%) GitLab
3 2 (1.18%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.59%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.59%) QUnit
4 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (31.18%) Finance
2 36 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.82%) Banking
4 29 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (9.41%) Investment Banking
6 14 (8.24%) Front Office
7 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.71%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.12%) Aerospace
9 6 (3.53%) Automotive
9 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.35%) Advertising
10 4 (2.35%) Electronics
10 4 (2.35%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.76%) Aviation
12 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Law
12 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (25.29%) Developer
2 37 (21.76%) Senior
3 21 (12.35%) Data Scientist
4 15 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.06%) Senior Developer
6 11 (6.47%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.47%) Lead
7 10 (5.88%) Consultant
8 9 (5.29%) Architect
8 9 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
8 9 (5.29%) Quantitative Developer
8 9 (5.29%) Software Engineering Manager
8 9 (5.29%) Software Manager
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (3.53%) Machine Learning Consultant
11 6 (3.53%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (8.24%) React
3 10 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 9 (5.29%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.71%) LangChain
5 8 (4.71%) WebSockets
6 7 (4.12%) Pandas
6 7 (4.12%) PyTorch
6 7 (4.12%) Redux
6 7 (4.12%) Vue
7 6 (3.53%) Backbone.js
7 6 (3.53%) JSON
7 6 (3.53%) Kafka
7 6 (3.53%) LangGraph
7 6 (3.53%) PySpark
7 6 (3.53%) Spring
7 6 (3.53%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.53%) Ultra Messaging
8 5 (2.94%) Hugging Face
9 4 (2.35%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 52 (30.59%) Data Structures
2 40 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (11.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 17 (10.00%) Derivative
5 13 (7.65%) AI Agents
6 10 (5.88%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.29%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.71%) Equities
9 7 (4.12%) Robotics
10 5 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.94%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.35%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.35%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (2.35%) IoT
11 4 (2.35%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (2.35%) Virtual Reality
12 3 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.76%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Unix
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (38.82%) AI
2 64 (37.65%) Machine Learning
3 48 (28.24%) Computer Science
4 43 (25.29%) Software Engineering
5 39 (22.94%) Data Science
6 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (19.41%) CI/CD
7 33 (19.41%) Low Latency
8 30 (17.65%) Multithreading
9 26 (15.29%) Mathematics
10 25 (14.71%) Validation
11 24 (14.12%) Agile
11 24 (14.12%) Analytics
11 24 (14.12%) Observability
12 23 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (11.18%) Microservices
14 18 (10.59%) Containerisation
14 18 (10.59%) Performance Optimisation
15 17 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (10.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 77 (45.29%) Python
2 60 (35.29%) Java
3 38 (22.35%) SQL
4 26 (15.29%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.71%) C++
6 19 (11.18%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.24%) C#
8 13 (7.65%) Rust
9 9 (5.29%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.94%) Scala
11 4 (2.35%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.35%) R
12 3 (1.76%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.76%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.18%) C
13 2 (1.18%) Go
13 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.59%) DAML
14 1 (0.59%) PHP
14 1 (0.59%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 43 (25.29%) Degree
2 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.24%) Master's Degree
3 14 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.88%) PhD
6 8 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.18%) CISM
8 2 (1.18%) CISSP
9 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.35%) GDPR
3 4 (2.35%) NIST
4 3 (1.76%) Automotive SPICE
4 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.18%) MISRA
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.59%) Basel III
System Software
1 11 (6.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.76%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.76%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.59%) Istio
Vendors
1 14 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.12%) Databricks
2 7 (4.12%) Google
2 7 (4.12%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.53%) SAP
3 6 (3.53%) Solace
4 4 (2.35%) IFS
5 3 (1.76%) F5
6 2 (1.18%) Duck Creek
6 2 (1.18%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.18%) IBM
6 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) Calypso
7 1 (0.59%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.59%) Murex
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.59%) Sitecore