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 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 +34
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 3 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% 0.51% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% 1.71% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £326 £436 £433
25th Percentile £349 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -8.10% -
75th Percentile £449 £546 £619
90th Percentile £472 £639 £668
North West median daily rate £475 £488 £486
% change year-on-year -2.71% +0.46% -9.58%

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 335 351 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 33.80% 30.10% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 195 337
10th Percentile £315 £294 £225
25th Percentile £403 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +1.03% -3.00%
75th Percentile £599 £631 £588
90th Percentile £650 £750 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 16
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £16.31
25th Percentile £30.59 £21.25 £16.85
Median hourly rate £41.50 £31.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.87% -15.07% +84.20%
75th Percentile £60.94 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £95.80 £71.88
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £23.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +51.06% -42.10% +101.64%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms 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 22 September 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 and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft