Algorithms Contracts in the North of England

Algorithms
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 159 195
Rank change year-on-year +15 +36 +28
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 22 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.55% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 2.00% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 19
10th Percentile £455 £333 £410
25th Percentile £500 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £564
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.78% +0.27%
75th Percentile £650 £544 £583
90th Percentile £674 £647 £640
England median daily rate £625 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.43 £55.00 £66.69
Median % change year-on-year -53.76% -17.53% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% +109.52% -41.67%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the North of England

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the North of England

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the North of England

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the North of England

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West +22 20 £550 +4.76% 46
Yorkshire -2 1 - - 21
North East - 1 £625 - 27
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure AI
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) Google Gemini
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Ethernet
1 3 (13.64%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Metadata
1 5 (22.73%) Tableau
2 4 (18.18%) Neo4j
3 2 (9.09%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (18.18%) Legal
4 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 3 (13.64%) Automotive
6 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) iOS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) PyTorch
1 7 (31.82%) TensorFlow
2 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) AVFoundation
2 2 (9.09%) iOS SDK
2 2 (9.09%) OpenCV
2 2 (9.09%) UIKit
3 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.55%) LDAP
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) OLE
3 1 (4.55%) OpenID
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (54.55%) Decision-Making
4 11 (50.00%) Mathematics
5 10 (45.45%) Machine Learning
6 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
6 9 (40.91%) Pattern Recognition
6 9 (40.91%) Statistics
7 8 (36.36%) Natural Language Processing
8 7 (31.82%) Data Science
8 7 (31.82%) Visualisation
9 6 (27.27%) Agile
9 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
9 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
9 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
9 6 (27.27%) LLM
9 6 (27.27%) SDLC
10 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (22.73%) Data Cleansing
10 5 (22.73%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) R
2 3 (13.64%) Scala
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.64%) AUTOSAR
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Ariba
2 1 (4.55%) SAP