Algorithms Contract Job Trends

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 cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 262 316
Rank change year-on-year -10 +54 +16
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 326 342 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 0.89% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 2.93% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 227 256
10th Percentile £382 £375 £381
25th Percentile £456 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -6.98% -7.86%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £775
90th Percentile £850 £858 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £495 £506
% change year-on-year +6.06% -2.22% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 12
10th Percentile £22.21 £25.60 £19.20
25th Percentile £61.25 £32.25 £21.19
Median hourly rate £67.00 £47.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.05% +35.71% -27.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £64.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £69.50 £48.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +42.56% +39.29% -36.36%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,627 11,677 16,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.60% 30.42% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,113 7,130 11,027
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 465 456
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.44 £16.76
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £20.97
Median hourly rate £29.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% +12.36% +67.92%
75th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £65.44
90th Percentile £73.30 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £49.00
% change year-on-year -47.69% +17.04% +122.73%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Algorithms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Algorithms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 16 Contract Job 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 21 September 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
England +2 268 £550 -8.33% 436
London -7 158 £575 -8.00% 247
UK excluding London +39 133 £525 +6.06% 263
Work from Home -10 74 £500 -14.89% 228
East of England +33 39 £525 -5.83% 42
South East +34 29 £500 -9.09% 103
Scotland +14 20 £513 +20.59% 29
Midlands -12 19 £520 +29.88% 14
North of England -24 18 £575 +17.95% 46
West Midlands -5 17 £538 +34.38% 9
Yorkshire -11 14 £599 +49.69% 18
South West +8 5 £513 -23.22% 33
North West -16 4 £475 -2.71% 21
Wales +2 3 £675 +172.73% 2
East Midlands -4 2 £492 +15.76% 4
Northern Ireland -10 2 £525 +16.67%

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 26 (7.98%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.45%) Apache
2 8 (2.45%) Apache Pig
3 5 (1.53%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.92%) IIS
5 2 (0.61%) CMS
5 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.60%) Simulink
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.61%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.61%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.61%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) ProductWriter
1 2 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 67 (20.55%) Azure
2 61 (18.71%) AWS
3 26 (7.98%) GCP
4 24 (7.36%) Power Platform
5 13 (3.99%) GitHub
6 11 (3.37%) Serverless
7 9 (2.76%) BlazeMeter
7 9 (2.76%) npm
8 8 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.15%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.53%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (1.53%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.53%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.53%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.53%) Vertex AI
12 4 (1.23%) Azure Functions
12 4 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.45%) Ethernet
2 7 (2.15%) SSL
3 6 (1.84%) HTTP
4 5 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.92%) Multicast
5 3 (0.92%) Wireless
6 2 (0.61%) Firewall
6 2 (0.61%) MQTT
6 2 (0.61%) SNMP
6 2 (0.61%) SSH
6 2 (0.61%) X.509
7 1 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G
7 1 (0.31%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.31%) LTE
7 1 (0.31%) MIMO
7 1 (0.31%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.82%) Hadoop
2 31 (9.51%) NoSQL
3 25 (7.67%) Tableau
4 24 (7.36%) Power BI
5 20 (6.13%) Big Data
6 15 (4.60%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.68%) Apache Hive
8 11 (3.37%) Data Mining
9 10 (3.07%) KDB
9 10 (3.07%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.45%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (2.15%) DB2
13 6 (1.84%) GIS
13 6 (1.84%) Kdb+
13 6 (1.84%) MemSQL
13 6 (1.84%) Sybase IQ
14 5 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.53%) QGIS
15 4 (1.23%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 42 (12.88%) Git
2 21 (6.44%) JIRA
3 18 (5.52%) JUnit
4 15 (4.60%) Cucumber
4 15 (4.60%) GitLab
5 13 (3.99%) Jenkins
6 10 (3.07%) Artifactory
7 9 (2.76%) Visual Studio
8 6 (1.84%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.23%) MLflow
10 4 (1.23%) Mockito
10 4 (1.23%) Rational Statemate
11 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.92%) Maven
11 3 (0.92%) Mocha
11 3 (0.92%) Postman
11 3 (0.92%) TestRail
11 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 129 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 83 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (20.55%) Finance
4 37 (11.35%) Banking
5 31 (9.51%) Front Office
6 23 (7.06%) Investment Banking
7 18 (5.52%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.68%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.07%) Games
11 10 (3.07%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.76%) Electronics
13 6 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.84%) Retail
14 5 (1.53%) Back Office
14 5 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.53%) Marketing
15 4 (1.23%) Legal
15 4 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 114 (34.97%) Developer
2 39 (11.96%) Data Scientist
3 32 (9.82%) Java Developer
4 25 (7.67%) Software Engineer
5 17 (5.21%) Architect
5 17 (5.21%) Data Engineer
5 17 (5.21%) Lead
5 17 (5.21%) Python Developer
6 16 (4.91%) Senior
7 15 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (4.29%) Scala Developer
9 12 (3.68%) Analyst
9 12 (3.68%) Consultant
10 11 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 9 (2.76%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (2.76%) Quantitative Developer
13 8 (2.45%) Data Science Developer
13 8 (2.45%) React Developer
13 8 (2.45%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.27%) TensorFlow
2 36 (11.04%) PyTorch
3 34 (10.43%) Pandas
3 34 (10.43%) scikit-learn
4 32 (9.82%) React
5 31 (9.51%) CSS
6 24 (7.36%) HTML
7 23 (7.06%) REST
8 22 (6.75%) NumPy
9 19 (5.83%) Spring
10 18 (5.52%) AngularJS
11 17 (5.21%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (5.21%) Node.js
12 15 (4.60%) .NET
13 13 (3.99%) Matplotlib
14 12 (3.68%) Vue
15 11 (3.37%) .NET Framework
15 11 (3.37%) Kafka
16 10 (3.07%) Seaborn
17 9 (2.76%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 87 (26.69%) Data Structures
2 23 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.52%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.60%) Fixed Income
5 14 (4.29%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.68%) FPGA
7 11 (3.37%) PKI
8 10 (3.07%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.07%) Derivative
9 8 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.15%) PCIe
10 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.15%) Verilog
11 6 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.53%) VHDL
13 4 (1.23%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.23%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.90%) Linux
2 10 (3.07%) Unix
3 4 (1.23%) Android
4 2 (0.61%) Windows
5 1 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (45.09%) Machine Learning
2 103 (31.60%) Agile
3 98 (30.06%) Artificial Intelligence
4 91 (27.91%) Data Science
5 89 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (25.15%) Software Engineering
7 81 (24.85%) Computer Science
8 77 (23.62%) CI/CD
9 69 (21.17%) Visualisation
10 60 (18.40%) Analytics
11 52 (15.95%) LLM
12 51 (15.64%) Decision-Making
13 44 (13.50%) Design Patterns
13 44 (13.50%) Mathematics
14 43 (13.19%) DevOps
15 39 (11.96%) OO
16 38 (11.66%) Scrum
17 37 (11.35%) Data Visualisation
18 34 (10.43%) SDLC
19 33 (10.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 156 (47.85%) Python
2 81 (24.85%) Java
3 75 (23.01%) SQL
4 40 (12.27%) JavaScript
5 36 (11.04%) C++
6 31 (9.51%) Scala
7 29 (8.90%) TypeScript
8 28 (8.59%) R
9 23 (7.06%) MATLAB
10 22 (6.75%) C#
11 7 (2.15%) Haskell
11 7 (2.15%) Rust
11 7 (2.15%) SystemVerilog
11 7 (2.15%) Tcl
12 6 (1.84%) C
13 5 (1.53%) Bash
13 5 (1.53%) OCaml
13 5 (1.53%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.23%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (21.47%) Degree
2 45 (13.80%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.51%) Master's Degree
5 27 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.83%) PhD
7 7 (2.15%) CISSP
7 7 (2.15%) HNC
7 7 (2.15%) HND
8 6 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.53%) CISM
10 4 (1.23%) MCP
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.92%) GIAC
11 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.61%) CEH
12 2 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.61%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.61%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.61%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.21%) NIST
2 16 (4.91%) QA
3 15 (4.60%) GDPR
4 12 (3.68%) Data Quality
5 9 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (2.45%) EU AI Act
7 7 (2.15%) DO-254
7 7 (2.15%) FIPS 140-2
8 6 (1.84%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.61%) EMIR
11 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.61%) PMO
11 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.31%) AUTOSAR
12 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (6.13%) Docker
2 8 (2.45%) Firmware
3 5 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.91%) Ansible
3 13 (3.99%) Grafana
4 3 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (0.92%) Kibana
4 3 (0.92%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.92%) logstash
4 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.31%) Rundeck
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.36%) Splunk
3 14 (4.29%) Databricks
4 13 (3.99%) Google
5 12 (3.68%) Xilinx
6 10 (3.07%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.45%) Foundry
7 8 (2.45%) Intel
8 7 (2.15%) Actel
8 7 (2.15%) Altera
8 7 (2.15%) Microsemi
9 5 (1.53%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.23%) Oracle
10 4 (1.23%) SAP
10 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.92%) Duck Creek
11 3 (0.92%) Guidewire
11 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.92%) Solace
11 3 (0.92%) Thales