Algorithms Contracts in London

Algorithms
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies advertised in 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 194 232 235
Rank change year-on-year +38 +3 -43
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 209 289 484
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.14% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.59% 3.15% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 200 323
10th Percentile £425 £424 £490
25th Percentile £506 £530 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £725
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -5.17% +20.83%
75th Percentile £825 £863 £813
90th Percentile £950 £1,000 £925
England median daily rate £588 £590 £700
% change year-on-year -0.42% -15.71% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 10
10th Percentile £41.50 £23.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £24.38 £22.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -33.33% +42.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £59.38 £52.66
90th Percentile £71.00 £77.75 £62.05
England median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.65% +7.06%

All Generic Skills
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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,183 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 36.10% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,671 10,256
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £714
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.14
% change year-on-year +60.11% -13.97% +2.49%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +41 28 £705 +41.00% 14
South London +7 3 £800 +28.00% 3
West London +21 2 £525 - 3
East London -5 2 £850 +21.43% 2
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 11 (5.26%) SAS
3 8 (3.83%) Apache
4 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.91%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.44%) CMS
6 3 (1.44%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.48%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.48%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Simulink
1 6 (2.87%) Stateflow
2 3 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.48%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 38 (18.18%) AWS
2 29 (13.88%) Azure
3 22 (10.53%) GCP
4 7 (3.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (2.87%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.91%) PaaS
6 4 (1.91%) SaaS
6 4 (1.91%) Serverless
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.44%) Lucidchart
7 3 (1.44%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.44%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.96%) ChatGPT
8 2 (0.96%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.96%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.87%) DNS
2 5 (2.39%) Firewall
3 4 (1.91%) DHCP
3 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.44%) Internet
4 3 (1.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 21 (10.05%) Big Data
3 16 (7.66%) NoSQL
4 15 (7.18%) Hadoop
4 15 (7.18%) MongoDB
5 12 (5.74%) KDB
6 11 (5.26%) Tableau
7 9 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (3.35%) Apache Hive
9 6 (2.87%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.39%) HBase
11 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.44%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.44%) Power BI
12 2 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.96%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.96%) HDInsight
12 2 (0.96%) Kdb+
12 2 (0.96%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (12.92%) Git
2 16 (7.66%) JIRA
3 10 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.83%) Maven
5 7 (3.35%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.39%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.39%) GitLab
6 5 (2.39%) Subversion
7 4 (1.91%) JUnit
7 4 (1.91%) Selenium
8 3 (1.44%) Gradle
8 3 (1.44%) webpack
9 2 (0.96%) Babel
9 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.96%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.48%) Ant
General
1 75 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 60 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (28.23%) Finance
4 27 (12.92%) Front Office
5 20 (9.57%) Banking
6 12 (5.74%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.78%) Retail
8 8 (3.83%) Legal
9 6 (2.87%) Automotive
10 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.96%) Games
12 2 (0.96%) Marketing
12 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.48%) French Language
Job Titles
1 82 (39.23%) Developer
2 35 (16.75%) Senior
3 34 (16.27%) Data Scientist
4 18 (8.61%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.66%) Senior Developer
6 15 (7.18%) Python Developer
7 14 (6.70%) Quantitative Developer
8 13 (6.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Site Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) C++ Developer
11 9 (4.31%) Lead
11 9 (4.31%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Senior Data Scientist
12 8 (3.83%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 8 (3.83%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 7 (3.35%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
13 7 (3.35%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.00%) Spring
2 21 (10.05%) Kafka
3 20 (9.57%) Pandas
4 19 (9.09%) React
5 18 (8.61%) REST
6 14 (6.70%) NumPy
6 14 (6.70%) scikit-learn
6 14 (6.70%) TensorFlow
7 12 (5.74%) Node.js
7 12 (5.74%) RESTful
8 11 (5.26%) CSS
8 11 (5.26%) HTML
8 11 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (5.26%) Spring Boot
9 9 (4.31%) .NET
9 9 (4.31%) Hibernate
10 8 (3.83%) Matplotlib
11 7 (3.35%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.35%) Django
11 7 (3.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (36.36%) Data Structures
2 27 (12.92%) Derivative
3 23 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (10.53%) Fixed Income
5 15 (7.18%) Hedge funds
6 14 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (5.74%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.39%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.39%) Client/Server
10 5 (2.39%) Equities
11 4 (1.91%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.91%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.91%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.83%) Linux
2 14 (6.70%) Unix
3 4 (1.91%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 70 (33.49%) Machine Learning
3 61 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (25.36%) Agile
4 53 (25.36%) CI/CD
4 53 (25.36%) Data Science
5 41 (19.62%) Analytics
6 37 (17.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 36 (17.22%) Mathematics
8 33 (15.79%) Design Patterns
8 33 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 32 (15.31%) Data Modelling
10 27 (12.92%) Data Analysis
11 26 (12.44%) Test Automation
12 24 (11.48%) DevOps
12 24 (11.48%) Microservices
12 24 (11.48%) Software Architecture
13 23 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (11.00%) OO
14 21 (10.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 110 (52.63%) Python
2 73 (34.93%) Java
3 52 (24.88%) SQL
4 41 (19.62%) C++
5 19 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.13%) C#
6 17 (8.13%) Shell Script
7 16 (7.66%) Go
8 14 (6.70%) R
9 13 (6.22%) Scala
10 8 (3.83%) Perl
11 7 (3.35%) C
11 7 (3.35%) MATLAB
11 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.87%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.44%) PHP
14 2 (0.96%) Rust
15 1 (0.48%) Bash
15 1 (0.48%) Julia
15 1 (0.48%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 59 (28.23%) Degree
2 35 (16.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (8.61%) Master's Degree
4 8 (3.83%) Numerate Degree
5 5 (2.39%) PhD
6 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.44%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.91%) MiFID
3 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 19 (9.09%) Docker
2 11 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 7 (3.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.26%) Consul
2 11 (5.26%) Grafana
2 11 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 5 (2.39%) Hadoop YARN
4 4 (1.91%) Terraform
5 2 (0.96%) Istio
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.26%) SaltStack
3 7 (3.35%) Databricks
3 7 (3.35%) ION Trading
4 5 (2.39%) Google
5 4 (1.91%) Oracle
6 3 (1.44%) Genesys
7 2 (0.96%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.96%) CA
8 1 (0.48%) Ariba
8 1 (0.48%) SAP
8 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow