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 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 205 219
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 166 160 183
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.15% 1.14% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 3.35% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 112 131
10th Percentile £386 £364 £415
25th Percentile £469 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -11.11%
75th Percentile £1,050 £775 £819
90th Percentile £1,120 £875 £925
England median daily rate £565 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -9.60% - -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £41.73 - £42.50
25th Percentile £42.44 £51.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £44.75 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.76% -8.70% +130.00%
75th Percentile £46.94 £53.75 £64.02
90th Percentile £47.58 - £68.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% -6.67% +2.27%

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 5,492 4,779 6,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.04% 34.08% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,570 3,020 4,282
10th Percentile £350 £320 £313
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £796 £844 £813
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 61 131
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £46.94 £60.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.55 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year -22.15% +4.93% +48.19%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +2 28 £650 +4.00% 35
South London - 6 £750 - 1
West London - 3 £525 - 12
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 9 (5.42%) Jupyter
2 6 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.81%) Apache
3 3 (1.81%) Confluence
4 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) ProductWriter
2 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg AIM
2 2 (1.20%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.60%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.67%) AWS
2 27 (16.27%) Azure
3 14 (8.43%) GCP
3 14 (8.43%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.22%) Amazon SageMaker
5 7 (4.22%) Vertex AI
6 5 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (3.01%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub
7 4 (2.41%) Serverless
8 3 (1.81%) PaaS
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.20%) Copilot Studio
9 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.20%) IBM Watson
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) SSL
2 2 (1.20%) SNMP
2 2 (1.20%) SSH
3 1 (0.60%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.04%) KDB
2 14 (8.43%) Kdb+
3 12 (7.23%) Power BI
4 10 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.82%) Big Data
5 8 (4.82%) Tableau
6 6 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.61%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.81%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.20%) DB2
9 2 (1.20%) MemSQL
9 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.20%) Pinecone
9 2 (1.20%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (1.20%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Git
2 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.01%) JIRA
3 5 (3.01%) QUnit
4 3 (1.81%) GitLab
4 3 (1.81%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.20%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.20%) GoCD
5 2 (1.20%) Gradle
5 2 (1.20%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.20%) Maven
5 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.60%) MLflow
General
1 50 (30.12%) Finance
2 44 (26.51%) Social Skills
3 40 (24.10%) Front Office
4 35 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.61%) Retail
8 5 (3.01%) Legal
9 4 (2.41%) Marketing
9 4 (2.41%) Publishing
10 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.60%) Aviation
11 1 (0.60%) Electronics
11 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (48.19%) Developer
2 22 (13.25%) Data Scientist
2 22 (13.25%) Senior
3 21 (12.65%) Python Developer
4 20 (12.05%) Quantitative Developer
5 19 (11.45%) C++ Developer
6 18 (10.84%) Java Developer
7 15 (9.04%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.63%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 11 (6.63%) Linux Developer
8 11 (6.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 10 (6.02%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Analyst
10 8 (4.82%) Lead
10 8 (4.82%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (4.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 6 (3.61%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 5 (3.01%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.01%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.25%) FIX Protocol
1 22 (13.25%) scikit-learn
2 16 (9.64%) TensorFlow
3 15 (9.04%) PyTorch
4 13 (7.83%) Pandas
5 10 (6.02%) XGBoost
6 9 (5.42%) Matplotlib
6 9 (5.42%) REST
7 8 (4.82%) NumPy
7 8 (4.82%) React
8 6 (3.61%) HTML
8 6 (3.61%) XML
9 5 (3.01%) CSS
10 4 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.41%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.41%) JSON
10 4 (2.41%) Kafka
10 4 (2.41%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (1.81%) JAX
11 3 (1.81%) LightGBM
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.51%) Data Structures
2 26 (15.66%) Equities
3 22 (13.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (12.05%) Derivative
5 19 (11.45%) Fixed Income
6 18 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (6.63%) Equity Derivative
8 9 (5.42%) Product Ownership
9 8 (4.82%) Cloud Native
10 6 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (2.41%) Replication
13 3 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (1.81%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.81%) PKI
14 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
14 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
14 2 (1.20%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.27%) Linux
2 12 (7.23%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) Windows
3 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (40.96%) Machine Learning
2 48 (28.92%) Data Science
3 43 (25.90%) Computer Science
3 43 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (24.70%) Analytics
5 39 (23.49%) AI
6 38 (22.89%) Mathematics
7 34 (20.48%) Low Latency
8 30 (18.07%) Agile
9 29 (17.47%) Multithreading
9 29 (17.47%) Risk Management
10 28 (16.87%) CI/CD
11 25 (15.06%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (14.46%) Decision-Making
12 24 (14.46%) Natural Language Processing
13 23 (13.86%) Data Analysis
13 23 (13.86%) Data Engineering
13 23 (13.86%) Quantitative Finance
14 22 (13.25%) Visualisation
15 19 (11.45%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (62.05%) Python
2 38 (22.89%) SQL
3 33 (19.88%) Java
4 27 (16.27%) C++
5 15 (9.04%) C#
6 12 (7.23%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.22%) Bash
7 7 (4.22%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.41%) Go
9 4 (2.41%) R
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) Rust
10 2 (1.20%) Scala
10 2 (1.20%) VBA
10 2 (1.20%) VC++
11 1 (0.60%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 36 (21.69%) Degree
2 13 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (7.23%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (6.63%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.02%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.22%) PhD
6 7 (4.22%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.81%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.20%) CEH
8 2 (1.20%) CISSP
8 2 (1.20%) MCP
9 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.82%) QA
2 5 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) EMIR
4 2 (1.20%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.20%) FIPS 140-2
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (6.02%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 14 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.42%) Terraform
3 4 (2.41%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (2.41%) Kibana
3 4 (2.41%) logstash
4 3 (1.81%) Grafana
5 2 (1.20%) rkt
6 1 (0.60%) Ansible
6 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (9.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.22%) Splunk
3 6 (3.61%) Google
4 5 (3.01%) Solace
5 4 (2.41%) Oracle
5 4 (2.41%) TIBCO
6 3 (1.81%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.20%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.20%) Charles River
7 2 (1.20%) Cognos
7 2 (1.20%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.20%) Foundry
7 2 (1.20%) IBM
7 2 (1.20%) Sage
7 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.20%) Thales
8 1 (0.60%) Databricks
8 1 (0.60%) SAP