Algorithms Contracts in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 208 292 281
Rank change year-on-year +84 -11 +119
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 128 108 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 0.52% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 1.76% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 51 115
10th Percentile £389 £359 £375
25th Percentile £459 £400 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £675 £610 £723
90th Percentile - £656 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 20
10th Percentile £22.72 £42.75 -
25th Percentile £32.06 £52.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +150.00% -42.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.56 £65.00 £63.17
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +134.04% -47.78%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +40 28 £650 +67.74% 118
South East +54 24 £500 -16.67% 254
Scotland +25 22 £425 +3.03% 71
North of England +15 22 £550 +15.79% 94
North West +22 20 £550 +4.76% 46
South West +41 14 £668 +48.33% 77
Wales - 11 £575 - 14
Northern Ireland - 5 £500 - 7
Midlands +6 3 £70 -87.27% 54
East Midlands +11 2 £70 - 12
Yorkshire -2 1 - - 21
West Midlands -3 1 - - 41
North East - 1 £625 - 27
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (14.06%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (8.59%) Simulink
2 2 (1.56%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.78%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (28.13%) AWS
2 28 (21.88%) Azure
3 12 (9.38%) GCP
4 5 (3.91%) Azure AI
5 4 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (3.13%) Google Gemini
6 3 (2.34%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (2.34%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (1.56%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.78%) Dialogflow
8 1 (0.78%) GitHub
8 1 (0.78%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.78%) Serverless
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.69%) Ethernet
2 4 (3.13%) Network Security
2 4 (3.13%) VPN
3 3 (2.34%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.56%) SSL
4 2 (1.56%) X.509
5 1 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.19%) Hadoop
1 22 (17.19%) Tableau
2 21 (16.41%) Big Data
3 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.91%) Metadata
4 5 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.13%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.34%) DB2
6 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.56%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.78%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Git
2 6 (4.69%) Selenium
3 5 (3.91%) JUnit
4 3 (2.34%) Rational Statemate
5 2 (1.56%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.56%) JIRA
5 2 (1.56%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.78%) Ant
6 1 (0.78%) CMake
6 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) Gradle
6 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.78%) Maven
6 1 (0.78%) Mockito
6 1 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 35 (27.34%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Finance
5 6 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.91%) Automotive
7 4 (3.13%) Electronics
7 4 (3.13%) Legal
7 4 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.34%) Games
8 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.56%) Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.56%) Military
9 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (39.06%) Developer
2 32 (25.00%) Senior
3 22 (17.19%) Java Developer
4 14 (10.94%) Data Science Developer
5 13 (10.16%) Senior Developer
6 10 (7.81%) Data Scientist
7 9 (7.03%) Architect
7 9 (7.03%) Linux Developer
8 8 (6.25%) Linux Scripter
9 7 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Research Scientist
11 5 (3.91%) FPGA Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
12 4 (3.13%) Core Java Developer
13 3 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 3 (2.34%) FPGA Developer
13 3 (2.34%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.31%) TensorFlow
2 25 (19.53%) PyTorch
3 20 (15.63%) Pandas
3 20 (15.63%) scikit-learn
4 19 (14.84%) NumPy
5 16 (12.50%) Matplotlib
5 16 (12.50%) Seaborn
6 6 (4.69%) CSS
6 6 (4.69%) Spring
7 5 (3.91%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.91%) React
7 5 (3.91%) RESTful
8 4 (3.13%) J2EE
8 4 (3.13%) Kafka
9 3 (2.34%) HTML
9 3 (2.34%) jQuery
9 3 (2.34%) Middleware
10 2 (1.56%) iOS SDK
10 2 (1.56%) OpenCV
10 2 (1.56%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.47%) IoT
3 6 (4.69%) Device Driver
3 6 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (4.69%) FPGA
3 6 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.69%) Verilog
4 5 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.34%) PCIe
6 3 (2.34%) PKI
6 3 (2.34%) VHDL
7 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.78%) Blog
8 1 (0.78%) Derivative
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.31%) Linux
2 10 (7.81%) Unix
3 6 (4.69%) Windows
4 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 60 (46.88%) Machine Learning
3 41 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (29.69%) Data Science
5 36 (28.13%) Decision-Making
5 36 (28.13%) Visualisation
6 29 (22.66%) Agile
6 29 (22.66%) Data Analysis
6 29 (22.66%) LLM
6 29 (22.66%) Software Engineering
7 26 (20.31%) Generative AI
8 23 (17.97%) Mathematics
9 22 (17.19%) Computer Science
10 21 (16.41%) Statistical Modelling
11 20 (15.63%) Analytics
11 20 (15.63%) CI/CD
11 20 (15.63%) Feature Engineering
12 18 (14.06%) SDLC
13 17 (13.28%) Data Analytics
13 17 (13.28%) Reinforcement Learning
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.88%) Python
2 36 (28.13%) Java
3 26 (20.31%) SQL
4 20 (15.63%) R
5 11 (8.59%) MATLAB
6 8 (6.25%) C++
7 7 (5.47%) C
7 7 (5.47%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.69%) Embedded C
9 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.34%) Rust
10 3 (2.34%) Scala
10 3 (2.34%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (2.34%) Tcl
11 2 (1.56%) Fortran
11 2 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.56%) Swift
12 1 (0.78%) Bash
12 1 (0.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (32.81%) Degree
2 21 (16.41%) Master's Degree
3 19 (14.84%) Security Cleared
4 15 (11.72%) PhD
5 9 (7.03%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.91%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.13%) Postgraduate
8 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.34%) HNC
8 3 (2.34%) HND
9 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.97%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.94%) QA
3 7 (5.47%) GDPR
4 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.34%) AUTOSAR
4 3 (2.34%) DO-254
4 3 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) NIST
5 2 (1.56%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.56%) MISRA
5 2 (1.56%) MISRA C
5 2 (1.56%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (10.16%) Docker
2 12 (9.38%) Firmware
3 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (11.72%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (0.78%) Ansible
3 1 (0.78%) Kibana
3 1 (0.78%) logstash
3 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.47%) Intel
3 5 (3.91%) Google
4 4 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.34%) Actel
5 3 (2.34%) Algorithmics
5 3 (2.34%) Altera
5 3 (2.34%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.34%) Microsemi
5 3 (2.34%) Splunk
5 3 (2.34%) Sybase
5 3 (2.34%) Xilinx
6 2 (1.56%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.56%) QNX
7 1 (0.78%) Ariba
7 1 (0.78%) Databricks
7 1 (0.78%) Foundry
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle
7 1 (0.78%) SAP