Algorithms Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Algorithms
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 218 208 283
Rank change year-on-year -10 +75 +58
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 86 139 200
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 0.91% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.63% 3.15% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 72 116
10th Percentile £413 £413 £369
25th Percentile £450 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £653 £591
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% +10.36% -5.40%
75th Percentile £669 £747 £788
90th Percentile £850 £973 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 17
10th Percentile £22.56 £50.25 -
25th Percentile £22.66 £52.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.72 £55.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.61% +150.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £31.59 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £34.46 £72.50 £61.18
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +134.04% -47.78%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Algorithms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Algorithms trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Algorithms.

Algorithms daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Algorithms daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Algorithms.

Algorithms hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (11.63%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.33%) Apache
2 2 (2.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.74%) AWS
2 19 (22.09%) Azure
3 9 (10.47%) GitHub
4 7 (8.14%) GCP
5 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.98%) Serverless
6 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (3.49%) AWS KMS
7 3 (3.49%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) SSL
2 6 (6.98%) S/MIME
3 3 (3.49%) HTTP
4 2 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.33%) X.509
5 1 (1.16%) 802.11
5 1 (1.16%) Broadband
5 1 (1.16%) DHCP
5 1 (1.16%) DOCSIS
5 1 (1.16%) DSL
5 1 (1.16%) Firewall
5 1 (1.16%) GPON
5 1 (1.16%) IPv4
5 1 (1.16%) IPv6
5 1 (1.16%) MQTT
5 1 (1.16%) PPP
5 1 (1.16%) SSH
5 1 (1.16%) VoIP
5 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.30%) Data Mining
2 5 (5.81%) Big Data
2 5 (5.81%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.65%) Tableau
4 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.49%) Metadata
5 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 1 (1.16%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.16%) DB2
6 1 (1.16%) Flink
6 1 (1.16%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.16%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Git
2 4 (4.65%) JIRA
3 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.49%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.49%) GitLab
3 3 (3.49%) Mocha
3 3 (3.49%) Postman
3 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.16%) CMake
5 1 (1.16%) MLflow
5 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 40 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (18.60%) Finance
4 10 (11.63%) Banking
5 8 (9.30%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.98%) Front Office
6 6 (6.98%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.49%) Retail
8 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Games
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (31.40%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Data Scientist
3 13 (15.12%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.79%) Lead
5 9 (10.47%) Linux Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Linux Scripter
6 8 (9.30%) Senior
6 8 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Architect
7 6 (6.98%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.81%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Algorithm Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
10 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Machine Learning Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) PyTorch
1 7 (8.14%) TensorFlow
2 6 (6.98%) Play Framework
2 6 (6.98%) React
3 4 (4.65%) Node.js
3 4 (4.65%) REST
3 4 (4.65%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.49%) CSS
4 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.49%) HTML
4 3 (3.49%) HTML5
4 3 (3.49%) Kafka
4 3 (3.49%) Matplotlib
4 3 (3.49%) PySpark
4 3 (3.49%) SVG
4 3 (3.49%) Swagger
4 3 (3.49%) Vue
4 3 (3.49%) WebRTC
4 3 (3.49%) WebSockets
4 3 (3.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Data Structures
2 10 (11.63%) PKI
3 7 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.81%) Device Driver
5 5 (5.81%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (5.81%) IoT
6 4 (4.65%) Hedge funds
6 4 (4.65%) Multi-touch
7 3 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.49%) NHS
7 3 (3.49%) Vector Graphics
8 2 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.33%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.16%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.91%) Linux
2 10 (11.63%) Unix
3 2 (2.33%) Android
4 1 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.16%) OpenWrt
4 1 (1.16%) VMS
4 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (44.19%) Machine Learning
2 37 (43.02%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (38.37%) Artificial Intelligence
4 32 (37.21%) Data Science
5 23 (26.74%) Agile
5 23 (26.74%) Computer Science
6 21 (24.42%) Software Engineering
7 19 (22.09%) CI/CD
8 18 (20.93%) Analytics
9 17 (19.77%) Decision-Making
10 16 (18.60%) Multithreading
11 15 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (17.44%) DevOps
11 15 (17.44%) LLM
12 14 (16.28%) Actionable Insight
13 13 (15.12%) Data Analysis
13 13 (15.12%) SDLC
14 12 (13.95%) Mathematics
14 12 (13.95%) Statistics
14 12 (13.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (53.49%) Python
2 29 (33.72%) SQL
3 21 (24.42%) Java
4 7 (8.14%) C++
4 7 (8.14%) Scala
5 6 (6.98%) C
5 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.98%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.81%) Embedded C
7 3 (3.49%) R
7 3 (3.49%) Rust
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Degree
2 13 (15.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (13.95%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.65%) PhD
5 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.49%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CISM
7 1 (1.16%) CISSP
7 1 (1.16%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (5.81%) GDPR
2 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.65%) NIST
2 4 (4.65%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) FIPS 140-2
3 2 (2.33%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
4 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Firmware
2 3 (3.49%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.16%) Ansible
3 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.47%) Databricks
3 4 (4.65%) Google
3 4 (4.65%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.16%) DocuSign
4 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.16%) Gemalto
4 1 (1.16%) Splunk
4 1 (1.16%) Thales