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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 218 212
Rank change year-on-year -60 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 165 156 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.15% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 3.08% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 119 147
10th Percentile £427 £400 £388
25th Percentile £550 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £667 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -17.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £785 £763 £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 5
10th Percentile £74.58 £30.65 £43.25
25th Percentile £85.94 £35.38 £46.25
Median hourly rate £87.50 £44.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.63% -15.24% -10.64%
75th Percentile £88.75 £52.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £56.15 -
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 7,405 5,058 5,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.99% 37.20% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,647 3,335 3,899
10th Percentile £358 £334 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £749
90th Percentile £795 £825 £863
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 114 89
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -8.82% -13.83%
75th Percentile £60.12 £45.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.13 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -28.78% +12.04%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 10 £650 +23.81% 8
Central London -34 10 £705 +13.94% 20
East London +3 1 £432 -35.04% 2
South London -22 1 £650 +4.00%
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 30 (18.18%) Azure
3 28 (16.97%) GCP
4 15 (9.09%) 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 6 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.82%) Big Data
5 3 (1.82%) Redis
6 2 (1.21%) Kdb+
6 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.21%) Power BI
6 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.21%) TigerGraph
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau
7 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (7.88%) 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 38 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 33 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (18.79%) 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%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.03%) Aviation
8 4 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.82%) Law
9 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 3 (1.82%) Retail
10 2 (1.21%) Advertising
10 2 (1.21%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 44 (26.67%) Developer
2 42 (25.45%) 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%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Quantitative Developer
9 8 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence 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%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (3.64%) Machine Learning Consultant
11 6 (3.64%) SAP Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.52%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (9.70%) scikit-learn
3 15 (9.09%) React
4 14 (8.48%) PyTorch
5 11 (6.67%) TensorFlow
6 10 (6.06%) Kafka
6 10 (6.06%) Spring
6 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.45%) LangChain
7 9 (5.45%) Pandas
8 8 (4.85%) LangGraph
8 8 (4.85%) WebSockets
9 7 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.24%) JSON
10 6 (3.64%) Electron
10 6 (3.64%) NumPy
10 6 (3.64%) PySpark
10 6 (3.64%) Redux
10 6 (3.64%) REST
10 6 (3.64%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 47 (28.48%) 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%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.21%) Virtual Reality
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 65 (39.39%) Machine Learning
2 61 (36.97%) AI
3 44 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 41 (24.85%) Data Science
5 40 (24.24%) CI/CD
6 34 (20.61%) Low Latency
7 33 (20.00%) Multithreading
7 33 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 32 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (16.97%) Observability
10 27 (16.36%) Analytics
10 27 (16.36%) Microservices
11 24 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 23 (13.94%) Containerisation
12 23 (13.94%) Mathematics
13 22 (13.33%) Electronic Trading
14 19 (11.52%) Agile
14 19 (11.52%) LLM
15 18 (10.91%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (10.91%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (45.45%) Python
2 53 (32.12%) Java
3 40 (24.24%) SQL
4 20 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.70%) C++
5 16 (9.70%) JavaScript
6 15 (9.09%) C#
7 12 (7.27%) Rust
8 9 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.24%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.42%) R
11 3 (1.82%) Go
11 3 (1.82%) Scala
11 3 (1.82%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.61%) Bash
12 1 (0.61%) DAML
12 1 (0.61%) Ruby
12 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 38 (23.03%) Degree
2 14 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.88%) PhD
4 12 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 12 (7.27%) 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%) Calypso
8 1 (0.61%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.61%) Murex
8 1 (0.61%) Pegasus