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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 228 205
Rank change year-on-year +5 -23 +17
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 177 127 205
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 0.94% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.06% 2.72% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 83 142
10th Percentile £397 £384 £416
25th Percentile £497 £450 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% -10.34%
75th Percentile £1,050 £775 £809
90th Percentile £1,120 £873 £950
England median daily rate £575 £609 £589
% change year-on-year -5.58% +3.44% -9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 17
10th Percentile £42.20 £51.75 £42.50
25th Percentile £43.63 £52.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% - -26.67%
75th Percentile £49.38 £57.50 £64.53
90th Percentile £50.20 £58.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -3.27%

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 5,790 4,670 6,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.97% 34.57% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,764 2,990 4,252
10th Percentile £350 £320 £300
25th Percentile £431 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.35%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £850 £813
England median daily rate £510 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 64 178
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.54 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.72 £24.66 £19.60
Median hourly rate £28.55 £38.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -24.87% +31.60% -17.50%
75th Percentile £54.25 £59.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £33.00 £36.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% +44.44%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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
Central London +1 27 £600 +15.38% 35
West London - 8 £648 - 16
South London - 6 £750 - 2
North London - 1 - - 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 8 (4.52%) Jupyter
2 7 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.39%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.69%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.26%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.69%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.56%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 45 (25.42%) AWS
2 31 (17.51%) Azure
3 14 (7.91%) GCP
3 14 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.21%) Amazon SageMaker
5 10 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (4.52%) Vertex AI
7 7 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.39%) GitHub
8 6 (3.39%) Serverless
9 5 (2.82%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (2.82%) Dagster
10 4 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.69%) IBM Watson
11 3 (1.69%) PaaS
12 2 (1.13%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.13%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.78%) KDB
1 12 (6.78%) Kdb+
1 12 (6.78%) NoSQL
1 12 (6.78%) Power BI
2 7 (3.95%) Tableau
3 6 (3.39%) Big Data
3 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.69%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.69%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.69%) Weaviate
6 2 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.13%) DB2
6 2 (1.13%) MemSQL
6 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.13%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.13%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.13%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 16 (9.04%) Git
2 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.26%) MLflow
4 3 (1.69%) Maven
4 3 (1.69%) QUnit
4 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.13%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (1.13%) GoCD
5 2 (1.13%) Gradle
5 2 (1.13%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.13%) JUnit
5 2 (1.13%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.13%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.56%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.56%) webpack
General
1 51 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.55%) Finance
3 43 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (22.60%) Front Office
5 23 (12.99%) Banking
6 9 (5.08%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.95%) Retail
9 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Legal
9 4 (2.26%) Marketing
9 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.26%) Publishing
10 3 (1.69%) Aviation
11 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Law
11 2 (1.13%) Police
11 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 84 (47.46%) Developer
2 30 (16.95%) Senior
3 28 (15.82%) Data Scientist
4 22 (12.43%) Python Developer
5 21 (11.86%) Quantitative Developer
6 20 (11.30%) C++ Developer
7 17 (9.60%) Java Developer
8 15 (8.47%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.78%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 12 (6.78%) Linux Developer
9 12 (6.78%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 11 (6.21%) Lead
11 9 (5.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (4.52%) Senior C++ Developer
13 7 (3.95%) Architect
13 7 (3.95%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 6 (3.39%) Senior Data Scientist
15 5 (2.82%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
15 5 (2.82%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.69%) scikit-learn
2 22 (12.43%) FIX Protocol
2 22 (12.43%) PyTorch
3 21 (11.86%) TensorFlow
4 16 (9.04%) Pandas
5 14 (7.91%) NumPy
6 11 (6.21%) React
7 10 (5.65%) REST
8 9 (5.08%) Matplotlib
8 9 (5.08%) XGBoost
9 8 (4.52%) HTML
9 8 (4.52%) Kafka
10 7 (3.95%) Seaborn
11 6 (3.39%) .NET
11 6 (3.39%) CSS
11 6 (3.39%) LangChain
11 6 (3.39%) Middleware
12 4 (2.26%) FastAPI
12 4 (2.26%) JMS
12 4 (2.26%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.81%) Data Structures
2 29 (16.38%) Equities
3 25 (14.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (11.30%) Derivative
4 20 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (10.17%) Fixed Income
6 11 (6.21%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.52%) Cloud Native
8 7 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.95%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.13%) Clustering
12 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.13%) Replication
12 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.13%) TWAP
12 2 (1.13%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.99%) Linux
2 10 (5.65%) Unix
3 3 (1.69%) Windows
4 2 (1.13%) Android
4 2 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (43.50%) Machine Learning
2 52 (29.38%) Data Science
3 51 (28.81%) AI
4 47 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (24.29%) Computer Science
6 42 (23.73%) Analytics
7 41 (23.16%) CI/CD
8 38 (21.47%) Mathematics
9 34 (19.21%) Agile
9 34 (19.21%) Low Latency
10 32 (18.08%) Multithreading
11 28 (15.82%) Data Engineering
11 28 (15.82%) Risk Management
12 27 (15.25%) Data Analysis
12 27 (15.25%) Data Pipeline
12 27 (15.25%) Natural Language Processing
13 25 (14.12%) Test Automation
14 22 (12.43%) Deep Learning
14 22 (12.43%) Generative AI
15 21 (11.86%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 115 (64.97%) Python
2 44 (24.86%) SQL
3 38 (21.47%) Java
4 27 (15.25%) C++
5 15 (8.47%) C#
6 10 (5.65%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.52%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.95%) Bash
9 5 (2.82%) Go
10 4 (2.26%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.26%) R
11 2 (1.13%) Rust
11 2 (1.13%) Scala
12 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.56%) VBA
12 1 (0.56%) VC++
Qualifications
1 36 (20.34%) Degree
2 12 (6.78%) Master's Degree
2 12 (6.78%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.65%) PhD
4 9 (5.08%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.13%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) QA
2 4 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) SLA
4 2 (1.13%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.13%) NIST
5 1 (0.56%) EMIR
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (7.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.65%) Terraform
3 5 (2.82%) Grafana
4 2 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.13%) Kibana
4 2 (1.13%) logstash
4 2 (1.13%) rkt
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.56%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.56%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.52%) Google
3 6 (3.39%) Splunk
4 5 (2.82%) Oracle
4 5 (2.82%) Solace
5 4 (2.26%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.26%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.26%) Charles River
5 4 (2.26%) IBM
5 4 (2.26%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.69%) Cognos
6 3 (1.69%) Databricks
6 3 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.69%) Sage
7 2 (1.13%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.13%) Foundry
7 2 (1.13%) IFS
7 2 (1.13%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.56%) Guidewire