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 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 220 202
Rank change year-on-year -49 -18 +25
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 165 154 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.13% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 3.04% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 116 148
10th Percentile £427 £401 £422
25th Percentile £550 £490 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £590 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -15.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £786 £766 £825
90th Percentile £888 £850 £950
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 8
10th Percentile £74.58 £30.65 £44.75
25th Percentile £85.94 £35.38 £50.00
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -19.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £59.38
90th Percentile - £56.15 £67.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +21.82% +100.00%

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 7,332 5,072 5,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.86% 37.10% 33.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,598 3,340 3,925
10th Percentile £356 £336 £325
25th Percentile £450 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £748
90th Percentile £793 £825 £860
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 115 98
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.07 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -3.61% -13.83%
75th Percentile £60.25 £45.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.72 £45.00
% change year-on-year +34.34% -27.28% +11.23%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -9 11 £650 +23.81% 13
Central London -30 10 £705 +13.94% 16
East London +4 1 £432 -35.04% 3
South London -17 1 £650 +4.00% 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 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.82%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.61%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.24%) ProductWriter
2 6 (3.64%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (1.21%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.21%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.39%) AWS
2 29 (17.58%) Azure
3 27 (16.36%) GCP
4 14 (8.48%) GitHub
5 7 (4.24%) Google Gemini
6 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.03%) Dagster
7 5 (3.03%) Vertex AI
8 4 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (2.42%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.82%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.82%) dbt
9 3 (1.82%) Serverless
10 2 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.67%) HTTP
2 6 (3.64%) Multicast
3 4 (2.42%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.82%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.82%) DNS
4 3 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.82%) Firewall
4 3 (1.82%) Network Security
4 3 (1.82%) SSL
4 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) DMZ
5 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.24%) KDB
2 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.82%) Big Data
4 3 (1.82%) Redis
5 2 (1.21%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.21%) Power BI
5 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.21%) TigerGraph
6 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.61%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.61%) Tableau
6 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Git
2 4 (2.42%) MLflow
3 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.21%) GitLab
4 2 (1.21%) JIRA
4 2 (1.21%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) Ant
5 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.61%) Gradle
5 1 (0.61%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.61%) JUnit
5 1 (0.61%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.61%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.61%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 45 (27.27%) Finance
2 39 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 35 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (19.39%) Banking
5 17 (10.30%) Front Office
5 17 (10.30%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.24%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.03%) Aviation
8 4 (2.42%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.82%) Law
9 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 3 (1.82%) Retail
10 2 (1.21%) Electronics
10 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (26.67%) Developer
2 43 (26.06%) Senior
3 26 (15.76%) Data Scientist
4 16 (9.70%) Java Developer
5 12 (7.27%) Senior Developer
6 11 (6.67%) Architect
7 10 (6.06%) Consultant
7 10 (6.06%) Lead
8 9 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Quantitative Developer
9 8 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (4.85%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.24%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Machine Learning Consultant
11 6 (3.64%) SAP Integration Consultant
11 6 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.52%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (9.70%) scikit-learn
3 14 (8.48%) PyTorch
3 14 (8.48%) React
4 11 (6.67%) TensorFlow
5 10 (6.06%) Kafka
5 10 (6.06%) Spring
5 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.45%) LangChain
6 9 (5.45%) Pandas
7 8 (4.85%) LangGraph
7 8 (4.85%) WebSockets
8 7 (4.24%) JSON
9 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 6 (3.64%) Electron
9 6 (3.64%) NumPy
9 6 (3.64%) OpenFin
9 6 (3.64%) PySpark
9 6 (3.64%) REST
9 6 (3.64%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.88%) Data Structures
2 36 (21.82%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (9.70%) Derivative
5 13 (7.88%) AI Agents
6 11 (6.67%) Product Ownership
7 10 (6.06%) Cloud Native
7 10 (6.06%) Equities
8 4 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.42%) Exotic Derivative
8 4 (2.42%) OTC Derivatives
8 4 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.82%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.82%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.21%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.21%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 60 (36.36%) AI
3 44 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 42 (25.45%) Data Science
5 41 (24.85%) CI/CD
6 34 (20.61%) Low Latency
7 33 (20.00%) Multithreading
8 32 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (18.79%) Software Engineering
10 28 (16.97%) Analytics
10 28 (16.97%) Observability
11 27 (16.36%) Microservices
12 25 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (13.94%) Containerisation
13 23 (13.94%) Mathematics
14 22 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
15 19 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
15 19 (11.52%) LLM
16 18 (10.91%) Agile
16 18 (10.91%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 74 (44.85%) Python
2 52 (31.52%) Java
3 40 (24.24%) SQL
4 20 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.09%) C#
5 15 (9.09%) C++
5 15 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.27%) Rust
7 9 (5.45%) PowerShell
8 7 (4.24%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.42%) R
10 3 (1.82%) Go
10 3 (1.82%) Scala
10 3 (1.82%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.61%) Bash
11 1 (0.61%) DAML
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
11 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.61%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 38 (23.03%) Degree
2 13 (7.88%) PhD
2 13 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 12 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.82%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.82%) GDPR
3 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.21%) NIST
4 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.21%) QA
4 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.82%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.82%) Terraform
3 2 (1.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (7.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.45%) OpenAI
3 8 (4.85%) Google
3 8 (4.85%) Solace
4 7 (4.24%) Databricks
5 6 (3.64%) IFS
5 6 (3.64%) SAP
6 3 (1.82%) Duck Creek
6 3 (1.82%) F5
6 3 (1.82%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.82%) IBM
7 2 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.21%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.21%) Charles River
7 2 (1.21%) Splunk
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe
8 1 (0.61%) Botify
8 1 (0.61%) ClickSoftware Technologies
8 1 (0.61%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.61%) Sitecore