Algorithms Contracts in Central London

Algorithms
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 150 169
Rank change year-on-year +41 +19 -55
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 28 24 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.17% 0.65% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.76% 1.82% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 12
10th Percentile £501 £417 £506
25th Percentile £611 £463 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £500 £663
Median % change year-on-year +41.00% -24.53% +9.87%
75th Percentile £743 £750 £759
90th Percentile £875 £968 £774
London median daily rate £650 £688 £725
% change year-on-year -5.45% -5.17% +20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £50.25 - £46.75
90th Percentile - - £55.75
London median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.33% +42.98%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 744 1,321 1,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.06% 35.62% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 901 1,145
10th Percentile £265 £313 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £838 £838 £808
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 28
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.14 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 £35.00 £32.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £37.42 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% -19.54% +132.50%
75th Percentile £25.50 £80.00 £59.50
90th Percentile £36.30 £88.30 £65.28
London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
% change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in Central London

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +51 28 £705 +37.56% 12
Algorithms
London

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
1 1 (3.57%) dbt
1 1 (3.57%) GCP
1 1 (3.57%) GitHub
1 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) KDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Front Office
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Site Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Development Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 2 (7.14%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) Kafka
1 10 (35.71%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (35.71%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) Matplotlib
2 2 (7.14%) NumPy
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.57%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Data Structures
2 10 (35.71%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Equities
3 3 (10.71%) Fixed Income
4 2 (7.14%) Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
4 10 (35.71%) Analytical Thinking
4 10 (35.71%) Microservices
4 10 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 10 (35.71%) Task Automation
5 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.86%) Analytics
8 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
8 5 (17.86%) Data Science
8 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
9 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 3 (10.71%) Algorithmic Trading
10 3 (10.71%) Quantitative Research
10 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
10 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 16 (57.14%) Java
3 10 (35.71%) C++
3 10 (35.71%) Shell Script
4 7 (25.00%) Go
5 3 (10.71%) Scala
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) SQL
7 1 (3.57%) R
7 1 (3.57%) VBA
7 1 (3.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Consul
1 10 (35.71%) Grafana
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 10 (35.71%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (35.71%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle