Algorithms Contracts

Algorithms
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies. 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 275 281 341
Rank change year-on-year +6 +60 -32
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 352 517 693
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.92% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.72% 2.77% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 334 436
10th Percentile £400 £410 £419
25th Percentile £463 £484 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £669
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -10.28% +21.59%
75th Percentile £775 £797 £788
90th Percentile £875 £950 £881
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £519 £538
% change year-on-year -3.61% -3.49% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 22 22
10th Percentile £32.90 £19.00 £18.60
25th Percentile £46.75 £19.37 £23.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -51.38% +0.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £51.56 £56.72
90th Percentile £65.00 £62.44 £58.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.11% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK 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
England +10 320 £588 -0.42% 486
London +38 209 £650 -5.45% 246
Work from Home +60 135 £678 +16.31% 223
UK excluding London -8 106 £500 -3.61% 251
North of England +24 28 £475 -12.76% 38
South West -2 19 £475 - 20
East of England +3 18 £375 -23.08% 37
Midlands +33 17 £425 -22.73% 33
West Midlands +24 16 £425 -24.44% 25
North West +19 16 £525 +0.48% 21
South East -22 16 £600 +20.00% 104
Yorkshire +23 12 £400 -30.43% 13
Scotland +22 8 £425 -43.33% 15
East Midlands +12 1 - - 8

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.41%) SAS
3 9 (2.56%) Apache
4 5 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.42%) IBM Notes
4 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.85%) CMS
5 3 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.28%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 36 (10.23%) Simulink
2 27 (7.67%) Stateflow
3 6 (1.70%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.42%) TargetLink
5 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Orchestrade
1 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.57%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) RMDS
3 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.19%) AWS
2 44 (12.50%) Azure
3 28 (7.95%) GCP
4 10 (2.84%) Amazon S3
5 9 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (1.70%) npm
8 6 (1.70%) Yarn
9 5 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (1.42%) Serverless
10 4 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.14%) PaaS
10 4 (1.14%) SaaS
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.85%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.99%) DNS
2 6 (1.70%) Internet
2 6 (1.70%) Wireless
3 5 (1.42%) DHCP
3 5 (1.42%) Firewall
3 5 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.85%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.85%) Network Security
4 3 (0.85%) RTSP
4 3 (0.85%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) LTE
5 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.52%) Relational Database
2 25 (7.10%) Big Data
3 22 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 19 (5.40%) Hadoop
5 17 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 14 (3.98%) Tableau
7 12 (3.41%) KDB
8 11 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.56%) Apache Hive
10 6 (1.70%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.70%) Power BI
11 5 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.42%) HBase
12 4 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.14%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.14%) Redis
13 3 (0.85%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
14 2 (0.57%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 49 (13.92%) Git
2 24 (6.82%) JIRA
3 14 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.98%) Subversion
4 10 (2.84%) Maven
5 7 (1.99%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.99%) JUnit
5 7 (1.99%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.99%) webpack
6 6 (1.70%) GitLab
6 6 (1.70%) Selenium
7 5 (1.42%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.14%) Gradle
8 4 (1.14%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.14%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.14%) Mocha
9 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.85%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.57%) Ant
10 2 (0.57%) Babel
General
1 108 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 75 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (19.03%) Finance
4 31 (8.81%) Automotive
5 27 (7.67%) Front Office
6 25 (7.10%) Banking
7 21 (5.97%) Legal
8 13 (3.69%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.41%) Retail
10 10 (2.84%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.70%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.42%) Marketing
13 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.14%) Police
15 3 (0.85%) Games
15 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 121 (34.38%) Developer
2 49 (13.92%) Senior
3 43 (12.22%) Data Scientist
4 36 (10.23%) Software Engineer
5 30 (8.52%) Java Developer
6 18 (5.11%) Senior Developer
7 17 (4.83%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.55%) Lead
8 16 (4.55%) Python Developer
8 16 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (3.98%) Analyst
9 14 (3.98%) Quantitative Developer
10 13 (3.69%) Architect
10 13 (3.69%) Python Engineer
10 13 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (3.41%) Site Engineer
12 11 (3.13%) Senior Data Scientist
13 10 (2.84%) C++ Developer
14 9 (2.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
14 9 (2.56%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.66%) Spring
2 28 (7.95%) Kafka
2 28 (7.95%) React
3 24 (6.82%) TensorFlow
4 21 (5.97%) Pandas
4 21 (5.97%) REST
5 20 (5.68%) scikit-learn
6 18 (5.11%) RESTful
7 16 (4.55%) NumPy
7 16 (4.55%) PyTorch
8 14 (3.98%) .NET
8 14 (3.98%) Node.js
8 14 (3.98%) Spring Boot
9 12 (3.41%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.41%) CSS
10 11 (3.13%) HTML
10 11 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (2.84%) Django
12 9 (2.56%) Hibernate
12 9 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 107 (30.40%) Data Structures
2 33 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (8.52%) Derivative
4 23 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (6.53%) Fixed Income
5 15 (4.26%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.41%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.99%) Clustering
10 7 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.70%) VHDL
12 5 (1.42%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.42%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.42%) Equities
12 5 (1.42%) FPGA
12 5 (1.42%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 47 (13.35%) Linux
2 24 (6.82%) Unix
3 14 (3.98%) Android
4 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.52%) Computer Science
2 109 (30.97%) Machine Learning
3 89 (25.28%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (22.16%) Agile
5 77 (21.88%) Data Science
6 75 (21.31%) Software Engineering
7 64 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 64 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 55 (15.63%) Mathematics
9 54 (15.34%) Analytics
10 52 (14.77%) Test Automation
11 47 (13.35%) Data Modelling
12 46 (13.07%) Design Patterns
12 46 (13.07%) Software Architecture
13 43 (12.22%) Validation
14 39 (11.08%) Data Analysis
15 38 (10.80%) OO
16 36 (10.23%) Microservices
17 34 (9.66%) Scrum
18 31 (8.81%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 154 (43.75%) Python
2 103 (29.26%) Java
3 67 (19.03%) C++
3 67 (19.03%) SQL
4 47 (13.35%) MATLAB
5 37 (10.51%) JavaScript
6 30 (8.52%) C#
7 27 (7.67%) C
8 26 (7.39%) R
9 22 (6.25%) Shell Script
10 20 (5.68%) Scala
11 17 (4.83%) Go
12 14 (3.98%) TypeScript
13 13 (3.69%) Kotlin
14 12 (3.41%) Perl
15 9 (2.56%) Embedded C++
16 6 (1.70%) Embedded C
17 4 (1.14%) Assembly Language
18 3 (0.85%) Bash
18 3 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 103 (29.26%) Degree
2 53 (15.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 21 (5.97%) Security Cleared
5 16 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.69%) PhD
7 11 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.55%) QA
2 7 (1.99%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.70%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.42%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.42%) MISRA
4 5 (1.42%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.14%) JTAG
5 4 (1.14%) MiFID
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) GDPR
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (6.53%) Docker
2 11 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.27%) Firmware
3 8 (2.27%) HDFS
4 5 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (11.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.41%) Grafana
2 12 (3.41%) Prometheus
3 11 (3.13%) Consul
4 5 (1.42%) Hadoop YARN
4 5 (1.42%) Terraform
5 2 (0.57%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.57%) Istio
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (8.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.13%) SaltStack
3 9 (2.56%) Databricks
4 8 (2.27%) Google
4 8 (2.27%) Oracle
5 7 (1.99%) ION Trading
6 5 (1.42%) Lotus
6 5 (1.42%) New Relic
6 5 (1.42%) NVIDIA
6 5 (1.42%) Splunk
7 4 (1.14%) Xilinx
8 3 (0.85%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.85%) Genesys
8 3 (0.85%) MathWorks
8 3 (0.85%) SAP
8 3 (0.85%) Sparx
9 2 (0.57%) Ariba
9 2 (0.57%) CA
9 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.28%) IBM