Algorithms Contracts in England

Algorithms
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 283 313
Rank change year-on-year +31 +30 -32
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 329 452 610
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.95% 2.79% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 299 388
10th Percentile £400 £400 £454
25th Percentile £475 £484 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -14.29% +24.44%
75th Percentile £775 £813 £788
90th Percentile £875 £1,000 £925
UK median daily rate £590 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -1.67% -11.11% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 23 27
10th Percentile £41.25 £19.00 £19.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% -45.05% +7.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £60.36 £55.94
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £58.56
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.38% +6.47%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,145 16,189 23,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.58% 33.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,254 16,999
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 576 631
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.21
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +5.33%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London +20 215 £650 -7.14% 282
North of England +26 26 £475 -12.76% 46
South West -7 20 £475 -5.00% 29
Midlands +42 19 £550 - 44
West Midlands +37 18 £550 -2.22% 41
East of England +5 18 £375 -23.08% 50
South East -18 16 £600 +6.67% 152
North West +13 14 £525 +0.48% 29
Yorkshire +18 12 £400 -30.43% 14
East Midlands +13 1 - - 3
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.43%) SAS
3 7 (2.13%) Apache
4 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.91%) CMS
5 3 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.30%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 33 (10.03%) Simulink
2 28 (8.51%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.52%) TargetLink
4 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.61%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) RMDS
3 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.59%) AWS
2 33 (10.03%) Azure
3 24 (7.29%) GCP
4 6 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (1.82%) npm
4 6 (1.82%) Power Platform
4 6 (1.82%) Yarn
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (1.52%) Amazon S3
5 5 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (1.52%) SaaS
6 4 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (1.22%) PaaS
6 4 (1.22%) Serverless
7 3 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (0.91%) Lucidchart
7 3 (0.91%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.91%) Vertex AI
8 2 (0.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) DNS
1 6 (1.82%) Internet
1 6 (1.82%) Wireless
2 5 (1.52%) DHCP
2 5 (1.52%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.91%) Ethernet
3 3 (0.91%) RTSP
4 2 (0.61%) SSH
5 1 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.30%) LTE
5 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.81%) Big Data
2 25 (7.60%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.78%) Hadoop
4 17 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.95%) Tableau
6 12 (3.65%) KDB
7 11 (3.34%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.82%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.82%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.82%) Power BI
10 5 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.52%) HBase
11 4 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.22%) Redis
12 3 (0.91%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.61%) HDInsight
13 2 (0.61%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (11.25%) Git
2 20 (6.08%) JIRA
3 14 (4.26%) Subversion
4 13 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.13%) GitLab
5 7 (2.13%) Maven
5 7 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 7 (2.13%) webpack
6 6 (1.82%) JUnit
7 4 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.22%) Gradle
7 4 (1.22%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.22%) Mocha
7 4 (1.22%) Selenium
8 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.91%) XCUITest
9 2 (0.61%) Ant
9 2 (0.61%) Babel
General
1 106 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (19.76%) Finance
4 31 (9.42%) Automotive
5 29 (8.81%) Front Office
6 21 (6.38%) Banking
6 21 (6.38%) Legal
7 10 (3.04%) Retail
8 9 (2.74%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.43%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.82%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.82%) Marketing
10 6 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.22%) Police
12 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.91%) Games
12 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 109 (33.13%) Developer
2 48 (14.59%) Data Scientist
2 48 (14.59%) Senior
3 37 (11.25%) Software Engineer
4 21 (6.38%) Java Developer
5 19 (5.78%) Senior Developer
6 18 (5.47%) Data Engineer
7 17 (5.17%) Analyst
8 16 (4.86%) Python Developer
8 16 (4.86%) Quantitative Developer
9 13 (3.95%) Python Engineer
10 11 (3.34%) Lead
10 11 (3.34%) Senior Data Scientist
10 11 (3.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (3.34%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.04%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.04%) C++ Developer
11 10 (3.04%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 10 (3.04%) Site Engineer
12 9 (2.74%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.51%) React
2 24 (7.29%) Spring
3 22 (6.69%) Kafka
4 21 (6.38%) TensorFlow
5 20 (6.08%) Pandas
6 16 (4.86%) Node.js
6 16 (4.86%) REST
6 16 (4.86%) RESTful
7 15 (4.56%) .NET
7 15 (4.56%) scikit-learn
8 14 (4.26%) NumPy
9 13 (3.95%) CSS
9 13 (3.95%) HTML
10 12 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 12 (3.65%) PyTorch
11 9 (2.74%) Django
11 9 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (2.43%) Hibernate
12 8 (2.43%) Matplotlib
12 8 (2.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.18%) Data Structures
2 29 (8.81%) Derivative
2 29 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.99%) Fixed Income
4 18 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.56%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.65%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (3.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.13%) Clustering
8 7 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.82%) Equities
9 6 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.82%) VHDL
10 5 (1.52%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.52%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.52%) FPGA
10 5 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.64%) Linux
2 16 (4.86%) Unix
3 14 (4.26%) Android
4 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (36.78%) Computer Science
2 104 (31.61%) Machine Learning
3 86 (26.14%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (23.10%) Data Science
5 74 (22.49%) Agile
6 71 (21.58%) Software Engineering
7 56 (17.02%) CI/CD
8 54 (16.41%) Artificial Intelligence
8 54 (16.41%) Mathematics
9 49 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 46 (13.98%) Analytics
11 45 (13.68%) Data Modelling
11 45 (13.68%) Software Architecture
12 44 (13.37%) Validation
13 42 (12.77%) Design Patterns
14 38 (11.55%) Data Analysis
15 33 (10.03%) OO
16 29 (8.81%) Statistics
17 28 (8.51%) Verification and Validation
18 27 (8.21%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 153 (46.50%) Python
2 89 (27.05%) Java
3 65 (19.76%) C++
3 65 (19.76%) SQL
4 45 (13.68%) MATLAB
5 38 (11.55%) JavaScript
6 34 (10.33%) C#
7 27 (8.21%) C
8 23 (6.99%) R
9 20 (6.08%) Shell Script
10 17 (5.17%) Scala
11 15 (4.56%) Go
11 15 (4.56%) TypeScript
12 12 (3.65%) Kotlin
13 9 (2.74%) Embedded C++
13 9 (2.74%) Perl
14 6 (1.82%) Embedded C
15 4 (1.22%) Assembly Language
16 3 (0.91%) PHP
17 2 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 105 (31.91%) Degree
2 53 (16.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (10.64%) Master's Degree
4 21 (6.38%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.26%) PhD
7 7 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.56%) QA
2 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.82%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.52%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.52%) MISRA
4 5 (1.52%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.22%) JTAG
5 4 (1.22%) MiFID
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (6.38%) Docker
2 9 (2.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.43%) Firmware
4 5 (1.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (10.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.74%) Consul
2 9 (2.74%) Grafana
2 9 (2.74%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (1.22%) Terraform
5 2 (0.61%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.30%) Istio
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (7.60%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.74%) SaltStack
3 7 (2.13%) Databricks
3 7 (2.13%) ION Trading
4 6 (1.82%) Google
5 5 (1.52%) NVIDIA
6 4 (1.22%) Oracle
6 4 (1.22%) SAP
6 4 (1.22%) Xilinx
7 3 (0.91%) Ariba
7 3 (0.91%) Genesys
7 3 (0.91%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.61%) CA
9 1 (0.30%) IBM
9 1 (0.30%) Lotus
9 1 (0.30%) New Relic
9 1 (0.30%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.30%) Splunk