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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 218 199
Rank change year-on-year -63 -19 +18
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 147 138 212
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.10% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 3.02% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 106 158
10th Percentile £450 £420 £425
25th Percentile £512 £514 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £788 £784 £797
90th Percentile £888 £850 £886
England median daily rate £550 £625 £565
% change year-on-year -12.00% +10.62% -4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £71.85 £30.65 £41.38
25th Percentile £86.25 £35.38 £45.31
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -19.09% +100.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £56.15 £64.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +31.82% +150.00%

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 6,856 4,574 5,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.02% 36.57% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 3,041 4,110
10th Percentile £358 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 92 143
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.44
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.21 £18.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.95 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +18.31% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.56 £49.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.12 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.31%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 £650 - 6
Central London -28 13 £699 +11.80% 14
East London -1 1 £432 -35.04% 3
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 11 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.68%) IIS
4 1 (0.68%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.68%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) ProductWriter
2 6 (4.08%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (2.04%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.41%) AWS
2 22 (14.97%) Azure
3 17 (11.56%) GCP
4 8 (5.44%) Dagster
4 8 (5.44%) GitHub
4 8 (5.44%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.40%) Vertex AI
7 4 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.04%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.04%) dbt
8 3 (2.04%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.36%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.36%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.36%) Serverless
10 1 (0.68%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.68%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.48%) HTTP
2 6 (4.08%) Multicast
3 4 (2.72%) HTTPS
4 3 (2.04%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.04%) DNS
4 3 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.04%) Firewall
4 3 (2.04%) Network Security
4 3 (2.04%) SSL
4 3 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.68%) DMZ
5 1 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.76%) KDB
2 6 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.40%) Power BI
4 4 (2.72%) Big Data
4 4 (2.72%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.04%) Redis
5 3 (2.04%) Tableau
6 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.36%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.36%) TigerGraph
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.68%) Power Query
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Git
2 6 (4.08%) MLflow
3 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.36%) GitLab
4 2 (1.36%) Gradle
4 2 (1.36%) Maven
4 2 (1.36%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.68%) Ant
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.68%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.68%) JUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 39 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (23.81%) Finance
3 34 (23.13%) Social Skills
4 32 (21.77%) Banking
5 19 (12.93%) Front Office
6 17 (11.56%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.40%) Aviation
7 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.04%) Law
9 3 (2.04%) Marketing
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Retail
10 2 (1.36%) Advertising
10 2 (1.36%) Electronics
10 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (31.29%) Developer
2 36 (24.49%) Senior
3 24 (16.33%) Data Scientist
4 16 (10.88%) Java Developer
5 11 (7.48%) Senior Developer
6 10 (6.80%) Architect
6 10 (6.80%) Consultant
7 9 (6.12%) Lead
7 9 (6.12%) Quantitative Developer
8 8 (5.44%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) C++ Developer
10 6 (4.08%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Integration Consultant
10 6 (4.08%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.08%) SAP Consultant
10 6 (4.08%) SAP Integration Consultant
10 6 (4.08%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.97%) scikit-learn
2 21 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (11.56%) PyTorch
4 15 (10.20%) TensorFlow
5 12 (8.16%) Pandas
6 10 (6.80%) Kafka
7 9 (6.12%) NumPy
7 9 (6.12%) React
7 9 (6.12%) Spring
7 9 (6.12%) Spring Boot
8 8 (5.44%) WebSockets
9 7 (4.76%) LangChain
9 7 (4.76%) REST
10 6 (4.08%) Ultra Messaging
11 5 (3.40%) Electron
11 5 (3.40%) Hugging Face
11 5 (3.40%) Middleware
11 5 (3.40%) OpenFin
11 5 (3.40%) PySpark
11 5 (3.40%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.85%) Data Structures
2 30 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (11.56%) Equities
4 16 (10.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (10.20%) Derivative
6 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
7 8 (5.44%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.72%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (2.04%) Fixed Income
9 3 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (2.04%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.36%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.36%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.36%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Solaris
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.46%) Machine Learning
2 48 (32.65%) AI
3 40 (27.21%) Data Science
4 36 (24.49%) CI/CD
5 34 (23.13%) Multithreading
6 33 (22.45%) Computer Science
7 31 (21.09%) Low Latency
8 29 (19.73%) Analytics
8 29 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (16.33%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (14.97%) Electronic Trading
11 21 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (13.61%) Software Engineering
13 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
13 19 (12.93%) Microservices
14 18 (12.24%) Observability
14 18 (12.24%) Test Automation
15 17 (11.56%) Algorithmic Trading
15 17 (11.56%) Natural Language Processing
15 17 (11.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (51.70%) Python
2 39 (26.53%) SQL
3 38 (25.85%) Java
4 18 (12.24%) TypeScript
5 17 (11.56%) C++
6 15 (10.20%) C#
7 11 (7.48%) Rust
8 9 (6.12%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.40%) JavaScript
11 4 (2.72%) R
12 3 (2.04%) Scala
12 3 (2.04%) SPARQL
13 2 (1.36%) Go
14 1 (0.68%) Bash
14 1 (0.68%) DAML
14 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.68%) Ruby
14 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.68%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 30 (20.41%) Degree
2 11 (7.48%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (5.44%) PhD
5 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.36%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.04%) Grafana
2 3 (2.04%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.68%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.68%) Istio
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle ZFS
3 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.76%) Databricks
3 6 (4.08%) IFS
3 6 (4.08%) OpenAI
3 6 (4.08%) SAP
4 5 (3.40%) Google
4 5 (3.40%) Solace
5 3 (2.04%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.04%) Charles River
5 3 (2.04%) F5
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle
5 3 (2.04%) Splunk
6 2 (1.36%) IBM
6 2 (1.36%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.68%) Adobe
7 1 (0.68%) Cognos
7 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.68%) Pegasus
7 1 (0.68%) Sage