Algorithms Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +29
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 3 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.32% 0.90% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.04% 3.46% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £468 £463 £390
25th Percentile £500 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% +13.10% -1.18%
75th Percentile £617 £656 £569
90th Percentile £648 £678 £573
North West median daily rate £563 £498 £523
% change year-on-year +12.90% -4.64% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
North West median hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year -50.00% - -

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 288 376 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 30.32% 25.95% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 238 378
10th Percentile £267 £304 £313
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £516
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.12% +5.46%
75th Percentile £612 £622 £634
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 19
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.21 £16.50
25th Percentile £40.13 £16.39 £16.85
Median hourly rate £62.50 £26.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.38% - +60.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £57.50 £50.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £38.05 £26.00 £27.70
% change year-on-year +46.33% -6.14% +47.73%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in Manchester

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Manchester

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in Manchester

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%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft