Algorithms Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Algorithms
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in Worcester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 2.94% - 5.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £73.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £72.50 - £70.00

All Generic Skills
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 26.47% 46.15% 29.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £149 £168 £325
25th Percentile £296 £700 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £800 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +77.78% -20.00%
75th Percentile £584 £900 £520
90th Percentile £586 - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £425 £700 £400
% change year-on-year -39.29% +75.00% -25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £46.28 - £22.59
25th Percentile £50.44 £16.67 £39.43
Median hourly rate £59.75 £17.16 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +248.29% -75.49% -
75th Percentile £67.94 £17.64 £72.50
90th Percentile £71.43 - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £45.00 £17.16 £70.00
% change year-on-year +162.31% -75.49% -

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in Worcester

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform