Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Algorithms
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 69 99
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 +28
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 2 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.19% 0.95% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 3.04% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £326 £410 £499
25th Percentile £349 £453 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £493 £700
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% -29.64% +31.76%
75th Percentile £449 £529 -
90th Percentile £472 £648 -
North West median daily rate £180 £489 £700
% change year-on-year -63.19% -30.14% +21.74%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 381 362 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.41% 31.23% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 189 333
10th Percentile £300 £294 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £663 £684 £663
North West median daily rate £460 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -4.78% +1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 12
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.05 £16.09
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.81 £26.71
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -18.75% +49.98%
75th Percentile £53.13 £50.13 £59.69
90th Percentile £74.83 £96.50 £78.25
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.18% -25.29% +95.13%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Manchester

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Manchester

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft