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 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 226 193
Rank change year-on-year -22 -33 +35
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 164 129 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.02% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.64% 2.85% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 87 149
10th Percentile £426 £400 £415
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £863 £813 £800
90th Percentile £1,050 £875 £950
England median daily rate £550 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 19
10th Percentile £43.63 £44.85 £42.25
25th Percentile £47.06 £47.25 £47.13
Median hourly rate £69.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £56.25 £63.52
90th Percentile - £57.75 £68.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% +2.27% +109.52%

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 6,207 4,531 5,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.90% 35.78% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,996 3,057 4,174
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £720
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 72 164
10th Percentile £18.04 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.26 £18.41
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +31.73% -25.71%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.50 £47.81
90th Percentile £77.92 £80.52 £66.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.95 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.47% +30.71% +22.22%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -20 19 £538 -6.52% 35
West London - 12 £650 - 8
South London - 3 £556 -
East London -5 1 £432 +8.00% 5
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 12 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.27%) Jupyter
3 5 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.61%) Solana
Applications
1 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.61%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (2.44%) Fidessa
1 4 (2.44%) ProductWriter
2 3 (1.83%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.61%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.00%) AWS
2 23 (14.02%) Azure
3 17 (10.37%) GCP
4 14 (8.54%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.10%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (4.88%) Dagster
6 8 (4.88%) Vertex AI
7 7 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.66%) GitHub
8 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (2.44%) Serverless
10 3 (1.83%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.83%) dbt
10 3 (1.83%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.83%) IBM Watson
11 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.66%) HTTP
2 4 (2.44%) SSL
3 3 (1.83%) BIG-IP
3 3 (1.83%) DNS
3 3 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.83%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.83%) Multicast
3 3 (1.83%) Network Security
3 3 (1.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.32%) Power BI
2 8 (4.88%) KDB
3 7 (4.27%) Tableau
4 6 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.44%) Big Data
6 4 (2.44%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.83%) Pinecone
7 3 (1.83%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.61%) Redis
9 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (7.93%) Git
2 6 (3.66%) MLflow
3 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.22%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.22%) Gradle
4 2 (1.22%) JUnit
4 2 (1.22%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) Ant
5 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.61%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
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%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 42 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (24.39%) Finance
3 38 (23.17%) Social Skills
4 29 (17.68%) Front Office
5 27 (16.46%) Banking
6 11 (6.71%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.66%) Aviation
8 6 (3.66%) Retail
9 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.83%) Electronics
11 3 (1.83%) Marketing
11 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.83%) Publishing
12 2 (1.22%) Advertising
12 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.22%) Legal
12 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 69 (42.07%) Developer
2 31 (18.90%) Senior
3 29 (17.68%) Data Scientist
4 21 (12.80%) Python Developer
5 19 (11.59%) Java Developer
6 18 (10.98%) C++ Developer
7 16 (9.76%) Quantitative Developer
8 13 (7.93%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.32%) Lead
10 10 (6.10%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Linux Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 9 (5.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Senior C++ Developer
12 7 (4.27%) Senior Data Scientist
13 6 (3.66%) Architect
13 6 (3.66%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.05%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 5 (3.05%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.68%) scikit-learn
2 23 (14.02%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (12.20%) PyTorch
4 18 (10.98%) TensorFlow
5 17 (10.37%) Pandas
6 13 (7.93%) NumPy
7 11 (6.71%) React
8 10 (6.10%) REST
9 9 (5.49%) Matplotlib
10 8 (4.88%) Kafka
10 8 (4.88%) Seaborn
10 8 (4.88%) Spring
10 8 (4.88%) Spring Boot
10 8 (4.88%) XGBoost
11 6 (3.66%) LangChain
11 6 (3.66%) Middleware
12 5 (3.05%) HTML
12 5 (3.05%) Node.js
13 4 (2.44%) .NET
13 4 (2.44%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (27.44%) Data Structures
2 30 (18.29%) Equities
3 26 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (12.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (10.98%) Derivative
6 10 (6.10%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (4.88%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (3.66%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
10 4 (2.44%) Cloud Native
10 4 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.22%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.22%) IoT
11 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.54%) Linux
2 7 (4.27%) Unix
3 2 (1.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Android
4 1 (0.61%) Solaris
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.46%) Machine Learning
2 54 (32.93%) AI
3 45 (27.44%) Data Science
4 42 (25.61%) Analytics
5 38 (23.17%) CI/CD
6 37 (22.56%) Computer Science
7 36 (21.95%) Low Latency
8 35 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (20.73%) Multithreading
10 28 (17.07%) Agile
10 28 (17.07%) Mathematics
11 26 (15.85%) Test Automation
12 25 (15.24%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (15.24%) Natural Language Processing
13 23 (14.02%) Data Engineering
13 23 (14.02%) Electronic Trading
14 22 (13.41%) Data Analysis
15 21 (12.80%) Visualisation
16 20 (12.20%) Generative AI
16 20 (12.20%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 99 (60.37%) Python
2 43 (26.22%) SQL
3 39 (23.78%) Java
4 26 (15.85%) C++
5 16 (9.76%) C#
6 13 (7.93%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.88%) Kotlin
8 7 (4.27%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.27%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.44%) Rust
10 3 (1.83%) Bash
10 3 (1.83%) Go
11 2 (1.22%) R
11 2 (1.22%) Scala
12 1 (0.61%) DAML
12 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.61%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 33 (20.12%) Degree
2 10 (6.10%) Master's Degree
2 10 (6.10%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (4.88%) PhD
3 8 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.10%) QA
2 5 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (7.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.61%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.66%) Terraform
3 5 (3.05%) Grafana
4 3 (1.83%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.61%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.61%) Istio
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.88%) Google
3 5 (3.05%) Databricks
3 5 (3.05%) Solace
4 4 (2.44%) AppDynamics
4 4 (2.44%) Bloomberg
4 4 (2.44%) Charles River
4 4 (2.44%) IBM
4 4 (2.44%) ION Trading
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle
4 4 (2.44%) SAP
4 4 (2.44%) Splunk
5 3 (1.83%) Cognos
5 3 (1.83%) F5
5 3 (1.83%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.83%) Sage
6 2 (1.22%) Dataiku
6 2 (1.22%) IFS
7 1 (0.61%) ClickSoftware Technologies
7 1 (0.61%) Guidewire