Algorithms Contracts

Algorithms
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 282 348
Rank change year-on-year +1 +66 -32
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 365 567 683
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.95% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.78% 2.85% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 359 427
10th Percentile £400 £408 £423
25th Percentile £475 £500 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £660
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -5.30% +20.00%
75th Percentile £725 £788 £788
90th Percentile £875 £950 £909
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 26 26
10th Percentile £34.21 £19.00 £19.50
25th Percentile £48.00 £20.60 £21.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £23.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.04% -47.78% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.66 £53.22
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £38.43
% change year-on-year +150.00% -42.75% -19.11%

All Generic Skills
UK

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +29 331 £588 -2.08% 473
London +24 214 £650 -7.14% 225
Work from Home +71 136 £653 +8.75% 278
UK excluding London -4 108 £500 -9.09% 276
North of England +35 26 £475 -15.85% 35
Midlands +35 19 £550 - 31
South West +12 19 £450 -10.00% 32
West Midlands +42 18 £550 -2.22% 26
East of England +13 18 £388 -20.51% 67
South East -18 16 £600 +4.35% 91
North West +15 15 £525 -5.28% 24
Yorkshire +24 11 £400 -30.43% 8
Scotland +1 10 £413 -45.00% 26
East Midlands +18 1 - - 5

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.74%) Apache
3 7 (1.92%) SAS
4 5 (1.37%) IBM Notes
5 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 38 (10.41%) Simulink
2 28 (7.67%) Stateflow
3 6 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.37%) TargetLink
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.27%) RMDS
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 62 (16.99%) AWS
2 35 (9.59%) Azure
3 23 (6.30%) GCP
4 11 (3.01%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.47%) Amazon S3
6 7 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (1.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (1.64%) npm
7 6 (1.64%) Serverless
7 6 (1.64%) Yarn
8 5 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.37%) SaaS
9 4 (1.10%) PaaS
9 4 (1.10%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.82%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.64%) Internet
1 6 (1.64%) Wireless
2 5 (1.37%) DNS
2 5 (1.37%) Firewall
3 4 (1.10%) DHCP
3 4 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.82%) Network Security
4 3 (0.82%) RTSP
5 2 (0.55%) SSH
6 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.77%) Big Data
2 25 (6.85%) Relational Database
3 21 (5.75%) Hadoop
4 18 (4.93%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.84%) Tableau
6 13 (3.56%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.74%) KDB
7 10 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.19%) Power BI
9 7 (1.92%) Apache Hive
9 7 (1.92%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.37%) HBase
11 4 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.10%) Redis
12 3 (0.82%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.55%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 40 (10.96%) Git
2 22 (6.03%) JIRA
3 16 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.84%) Subversion
5 9 (2.47%) GitLab
6 7 (1.92%) Maven
6 7 (1.92%) webpack
7 6 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.64%) JUnit
7 6 (1.64%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.10%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.10%) Mocha
8 4 (1.10%) Selenium
9 3 (0.82%) Gradle
9 3 (0.82%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.55%) Ant
10 2 (0.55%) Babel
10 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.82%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (18.08%) Finance
4 32 (8.77%) Front Office
5 31 (8.49%) Automotive
6 21 (5.75%) Banking
6 21 (5.75%) Legal
7 11 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.47%) Retail
10 8 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.92%) Marketing
12 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.64%) Police
13 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.82%) Games
14 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 121 (33.15%) Developer
2 54 (14.79%) Data Scientist
3 50 (13.70%) Senior
4 40 (10.96%) Software Engineer
5 22 (6.03%) Data Engineer
5 22 (6.03%) Java Developer
6 21 (5.75%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.21%) Quantitative Developer
8 18 (4.93%) Analyst
9 17 (4.66%) Python Developer
10 16 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (3.84%) C++ Developer
11 14 (3.84%) Lead
12 13 (3.56%) C# Developer
13 12 (3.29%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.29%) Senior Data Scientist
14 11 (3.01%) C# Quant Developer
15 10 (2.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 10 (2.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 9 (2.47%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.95%) React
2 25 (6.85%) Pandas
3 24 (6.58%) TensorFlow
4 23 (6.30%) Kafka
5 22 (6.03%) Spring
6 19 (5.21%) scikit-learn
7 17 (4.66%) NumPy
8 16 (4.38%) Node.js
9 15 (4.11%) PyTorch
9 15 (4.11%) RESTful
10 14 (3.84%) CSS
10 14 (3.84%) HTML
11 12 (3.29%) .NET
11 12 (3.29%) REST
12 10 (2.74%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.47%) Matplotlib
14 8 (2.19%) PySpark
14 8 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (1.92%) Django
15 7 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.30%) Data Structures
2 31 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.95%) Derivative
4 19 (5.21%) Fixed Income
5 17 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.84%) Equity Derivative
6 14 (3.84%) Hedge funds
7 12 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.92%) Clustering
10 7 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.92%) Equities
11 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.64%) VHDL
12 5 (1.37%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.37%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.96%) Linux
2 21 (5.75%) Unix
3 13 (3.56%) Android
4 5 (1.37%) Windows
5 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (33.15%) Computer Science
2 116 (31.78%) Machine Learning
3 87 (23.84%) Data Science
4 85 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (21.37%) Software Engineering
6 77 (21.10%) Agile
7 59 (16.16%) Analytics
7 59 (16.16%) Artificial Intelligence
8 57 (15.62%) CI/CD
9 56 (15.34%) Mathematics
10 55 (15.07%) Data Modelling
11 49 (13.42%) Software Architecture
12 48 (13.15%) Test Automation
13 46 (12.60%) Data Analysis
14 43 (11.78%) Validation
15 42 (11.51%) Design Patterns
16 33 (9.04%) OO
17 32 (8.77%) Statistics
18 31 (8.49%) Data Pipeline
19 29 (7.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 166 (45.48%) Python
2 92 (25.21%) Java
3 72 (19.73%) C++
3 72 (19.73%) SQL
4 50 (13.70%) MATLAB
5 42 (11.51%) JavaScript
6 38 (10.41%) C#
7 29 (7.95%) C
8 26 (7.12%) R
9 20 (5.48%) Scala
10 19 (5.21%) Shell Script
11 18 (4.93%) TypeScript
12 16 (4.38%) Go
13 10 (2.74%) Kotlin
13 10 (2.74%) Perl
14 9 (2.47%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.64%) Embedded C
16 4 (1.10%) Assembly Language
17 3 (0.82%) PHP
17 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 110 (30.14%) Degree
2 53 (14.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (10.68%) Master's Degree
4 29 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 26 (7.12%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.84%) PhD
7 9 (2.47%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.84%) QA
2 9 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.64%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.37%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.37%) MISRA
4 5 (1.37%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.10%) JTAG
5 4 (1.10%) MiFID
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 3 (0.82%) NCSC
7 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (5.21%) Docker
2 8 (2.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 8 (2.19%) Firmware
3 5 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (1.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.19%) Consul
2 8 (2.19%) Grafana
2 8 (2.19%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.37%) Hadoop YARN
3 5 (1.37%) Terraform
4 2 (0.55%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.27%) Istio
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.19%) Databricks
2 8 (2.19%) SaltStack
3 7 (1.92%) Google
3 7 (1.92%) Oracle
4 5 (1.37%) ION Trading
4 5 (1.37%) Lotus
4 5 (1.37%) New Relic
4 5 (1.37%) NVIDIA
4 5 (1.37%) Splunk
5 4 (1.10%) SAP
5 4 (1.10%) Xilinx
6 3 (0.82%) Ariba
6 3 (0.82%) Genesys
6 3 (0.82%) MathWorks
6 3 (0.82%) Sparx
7 2 (0.55%) CA
7 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.27%) IBM
8 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow