Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Algorithms
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 3 0 27
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.75% - 3.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% - 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £212 - £384
25th Percentile £246 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 - £560
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.19%
75th Percentile £376 - £672
90th Percentile £413 - £690
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 121 153 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 30.10% 33.41% 33.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 98 178
10th Percentile - £189 £200
25th Percentile £204 £275 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -21.95% -2.38%
75th Percentile £508 £538 £581
90th Percentile £665 £597 £675
South East median daily rate £492 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% +2.37% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 16
10th Percentile £30.51 £14.19 £27.25
25th Percentile £32.77 £21.27 £37.19
Median hourly rate £70.16 £24.18 £68.16
Median % change year-on-year +190.16% -64.52% +292.15%
75th Percentile - £67.17 £77.72
90th Percentile £75.98 £75.00 £82.79
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -33.96% +53.62%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Surrey

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Surrey

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Staines - 2 £425 -
Algorithms
South East

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Model Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Survival Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes