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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 279 332
Rank change year-on-year +10 +53 -7
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 364 556 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.96% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.80% 2.88% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 348 433
10th Percentile £400 £413 £417
25th Percentile £475 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £619 £673
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% -7.99% +22.27%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £788
90th Percentile £875 £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £545 £534
% change year-on-year -8.17% +2.01% +12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 28
10th Percentile £33.56 £19.00 £19.20
25th Percentile £47.75 £20.47 £21.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -51.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.76 £55.16
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £58.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.11% -

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 12,985 19,334 29,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.32% 33.28% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,344 13,272 20,329
10th Percentile £270 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £676 £659
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 639 713
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.10 £65.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +12 332 £600 - 509
London +29 219 £650 -7.14% 243
Work from Home +65 137 £655 +8.04% 259
UK excluding London -1 106 £500 -8.17% 284
North of England +23 25 £475 -11.17% 32
Midlands +45 19 £550 - 44
West Midlands +37 18 £550 -2.22% 40
South West +6 18 £450 -10.00% 31
East of England -2 18 £375 -23.08% 60
South East -20 16 £600 +6.67% 91
North West +18 14 £525 +0.48% 22
Yorkshire +30 11 £400 -30.43% 10
Scotland +19 10 £413 -45.00% 26
East Midlands +20 1 - - 4

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 15 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.47%) SAS
3 8 (2.20%) Apache
4 5 (1.37%) IBM Notes
5 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) CMS
6 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 38 (10.44%) Simulink
2 28 (7.69%) Stateflow
3 6 (1.65%) 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
2 2 (0.55%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.27%) RMDS
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 56 (15.38%) AWS
2 37 (10.16%) Azure
3 27 (7.42%) GCP
4 11 (3.02%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (1.65%) npm
6 6 (1.65%) Yarn
7 5 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (1.37%) SaaS
7 5 (1.37%) Serverless
8 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.10%) PaaS
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.82%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) Internet
1 6 (1.65%) 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%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.52%) Big Data
2 28 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 20 (5.49%) Hadoop
4 18 (4.95%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.85%) Tableau
6 13 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.30%) KDB
8 10 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.20%) Power BI
10 7 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.65%) Apache Hive
12 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.37%) HBase
13 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.10%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.10%) Redis
14 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.55%) Kdb+
15 2 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (10.71%) Git
2 21 (5.77%) JIRA
3 14 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.85%) Subversion
4 7 (1.92%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.92%) GitLab
4 7 (1.92%) Maven
4 7 (1.92%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.92%) webpack
5 6 (1.65%) JUnit
6 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.10%) Gradle
6 4 (1.10%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.10%) Mocha
6 4 (1.10%) Selenium
7 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.82%) XCUITest
8 2 (0.55%) Ant
8 2 (0.55%) Babel
General
1 113 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 77 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (18.96%) Finance
4 33 (9.07%) Front Office
5 31 (8.52%) Automotive
6 22 (6.04%) Banking
7 21 (5.77%) Legal
8 10 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.75%) Retail
9 9 (2.47%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.92%) Marketing
12 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.37%) Police
14 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.82%) Games
15 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (32.97%) Developer
2 51 (14.01%) Data Scientist
3 49 (13.46%) Senior
4 39 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 24 (6.59%) Java Developer
6 21 (5.77%) Data Engineer
7 19 (5.22%) Analyst
7 19 (5.22%) Senior Developer
8 18 (4.95%) Quantitative Developer
9 17 (4.67%) Python Developer
10 16 (4.40%) Lead
10 16 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.57%) C# Developer
11 13 (3.57%) Python Engineer
11 13 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
12 12 (3.30%) Architect
13 11 (3.02%) C++ Developer
13 11 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 10 (2.75%) C# Quant Developer
14 10 (2.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.97%) React
2 25 (6.87%) Spring
2 25 (6.87%) TensorFlow
3 23 (6.32%) Kafka
4 22 (6.04%) Pandas
5 18 (4.95%) scikit-learn
6 17 (4.67%) .NET
6 17 (4.67%) RESTful
7 16 (4.40%) Node.js
8 15 (4.12%) NumPy
8 15 (4.12%) PyTorch
8 15 (4.12%) REST
9 13 (3.57%) CSS
9 13 (3.57%) HTML
10 11 (3.02%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (2.20%) Django
12 8 (2.20%) JSON
12 8 (2.20%) Matplotlib
12 8 (2.20%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (28.30%) Data Structures
2 32 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (8.24%) Derivative
4 22 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (6.04%) Fixed Income
5 15 (4.12%) Hedge funds
6 13 (3.57%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.92%) Clustering
10 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.65%) Equities
11 6 (1.65%) VHDL
12 5 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.37%) FPGA
12 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.26%) Linux
2 22 (6.04%) Unix
3 13 (3.57%) Android
4 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (34.34%) Computer Science
2 114 (31.32%) Machine Learning
3 88 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (22.80%) Data Science
5 79 (21.70%) Agile
6 78 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 60 (16.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 58 (15.93%) CI/CD
9 57 (15.66%) Analytics
10 56 (15.38%) Mathematics
11 54 (14.84%) Data Modelling
12 50 (13.74%) Software Architecture
13 48 (13.19%) Test Automation
14 45 (12.36%) Data Analysis
14 45 (12.36%) Design Patterns
15 44 (12.09%) Validation
16 38 (10.44%) OO
17 31 (8.52%) Microservices
17 31 (8.52%) Statistics
18 29 (7.97%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 160 (43.96%) Python
2 94 (25.82%) Java
3 72 (19.78%) SQL
4 66 (18.13%) C++
5 50 (13.74%) MATLAB
6 39 (10.71%) C#
7 38 (10.44%) JavaScript
8 27 (7.42%) C
9 25 (6.87%) R
10 21 (5.77%) Scala
11 20 (5.49%) Shell Script
12 17 (4.67%) TypeScript
13 15 (4.12%) Go
14 11 (3.02%) Perl
15 10 (2.75%) Kotlin
16 9 (2.47%) Embedded C++
17 6 (1.65%) Embedded C
18 4 (1.10%) Assembly Language
19 3 (0.82%) PHP
20 2 (0.55%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 110 (30.22%) Degree
2 54 (14.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (10.71%) Master's Degree
4 24 (6.59%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 15 (4.12%) PhD
7 8 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.12%) QA
2 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.65%) 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 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (6.04%) Docker
2 9 (2.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.20%) Firmware
4 5 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (9.34%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.47%) Consul
2 9 (2.47%) Grafana
2 9 (2.47%) 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 30 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.47%) SaltStack
3 8 (2.20%) Google
4 7 (1.92%) Databricks
4 7 (1.92%) ION Trading
4 7 (1.92%) Oracle
5 5 (1.37%) Lotus
5 5 (1.37%) New Relic
5 5 (1.37%) NVIDIA
5 5 (1.37%) Splunk
6 4 (1.10%) SAP
6 4 (1.10%) Xilinx
7 3 (0.82%) Ariba
7 3 (0.82%) Genesys
7 3 (0.82%) MathWorks
7 3 (0.82%) Sparx
8 2 (0.55%) CA
8 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) IBM
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow