Algorithms Contracts in the Thames Valley

Algorithms
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 89 140 133
Rank change year-on-year +51 -7 +15
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 13 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.19% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 0.62% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £383 - £357
25th Percentile £427 £359 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £575
Median % change year-on-year +35.69% -35.91% +21.05%
75th Percentile - £378 £588
90th Percentile - - £599
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £19.49
% change year-on-year -15.38% +233.50% -7.19%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the Thames Valley

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the Thames Valley

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the Thames Valley

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +42 12 £500 +35.69% 21
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 17
Algorithms
South East

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Apache
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Big Data
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) CMake
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) NumPy
1 2 (15.38%) Pandas
1 2 (15.38%) scikit-learn
1 2 (15.38%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) CNTK
2 1 (7.69%) OpenVINO
2 1 (7.69%) Prophet
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 8 (61.54%) Exploratory Testing
2 8 (61.54%) Mathematics
2 8 (61.54%) Optimization Problems
2 8 (61.54%) Scenario Testing
2 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Data Collection
4 6 (46.15%) Functional Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Agile
6 4 (30.77%) Data Science
6 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
7 3 (23.08%) Data Cleansing
7 3 (23.08%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
8 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (15.38%) Predictive Modelling
8 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 2 (15.38%) Statistical Modelling
8 2 (15.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google