Algorithms Contracts in England

Algorithms
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 276 314
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 -34
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 325 436 617
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.93% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% 2.76% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 299 396
10th Percentile £390 £388 £434
25th Percentile £475 £475 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -16.79% +21.95%
75th Percentile £775 £813 £791
90th Percentile £865 £950 £900
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% +20.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 23
10th Percentile £41.25 £19.00 £18.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £20.87 £34.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -51.65% +7.06%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 £55.94
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.34 £58.24
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 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 requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
London +27 211 £600 -11.11% 215
North of England +17 27 £475 -12.76% 40
South East -8 21 £600 +20.00% 90
South West -7 19 £475 - 21
East of England +4 18 £375 -23.08% 39
Midlands +27 17 £425 -22.73% 37
West Midlands +28 16 £425 -24.44% 24
North West +12 15 £538 +2.87% 21
Yorkshire +19 12 £400 -30.43% 10
East Midlands +7 1 - - 13
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 16 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.38%) SAS
3 10 (3.08%) Apache
4 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.92%) CMS
5 3 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.31%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.31%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (9.85%) Simulink
2 27 (8.31%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.54%) TargetLink
4 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.62%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.92%) Orchestrade
2 2 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.31%) RMDS
3 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.38%) AWS
2 43 (13.23%) Azure
3 27 (8.31%) GCP
4 8 (2.46%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.15%) Azure Machine Learning
5 7 (2.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (2.15%) npm
6 6 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.85%) Serverless
6 6 (1.85%) Yarn
7 5 (1.54%) PaaS
7 5 (1.54%) SaaS
8 4 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.92%) ChatGPT
9 3 (0.92%) GitHub
9 3 (0.92%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.15%) DNS
2 6 (1.85%) Internet
2 6 (1.85%) Wireless
3 5 (1.54%) DHCP
3 5 (1.54%) Firewall
3 5 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.92%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.92%) RTSP
4 3 (0.92%) SSH
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.31%) 5G
6 1 (0.31%) LTE
6 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.31%) Relational Database
2 25 (7.69%) Big Data
3 22 (6.77%) NoSQL
4 18 (5.54%) Hadoop
5 17 (5.23%) MongoDB
6 13 (4.00%) KDB
6 13 (4.00%) Tableau
7 12 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.46%) Apache Hive
8 8 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.85%) Power BI
10 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.54%) HBase
11 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.23%) Redis
12 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.92%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.62%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 49 (15.08%) Git
2 22 (6.77%) JIRA
3 15 (4.62%) Subversion
4 13 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 13 (4.00%) Maven
5 8 (2.46%) Gradle
5 8 (2.46%) JUnit
5 8 (2.46%) webpack
6 7 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.15%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.85%) IntelliJ
7 6 (1.85%) Selenium
8 5 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.54%) GitLab
9 4 (1.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.23%) Jasmine
9 4 (1.23%) Karma Test Runner
9 4 (1.23%) Mocha
10 3 (0.92%) XCUITest
11 2 (0.62%) Babel
General
1 110 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 73 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (19.69%) Finance
4 31 (9.54%) Automotive
5 27 (8.31%) Banking
5 27 (8.31%) Front Office
6 23 (7.08%) Legal
7 15 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.08%) Retail
9 8 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.23%) Marketing
12 4 (1.23%) Police
13 3 (0.92%) Games
13 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 108 (33.23%) Developer
2 47 (14.46%) Senior
3 40 (12.31%) Data Scientist
4 35 (10.77%) Software Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 18 (5.54%) Data Engineer
6 18 (5.54%) Python Developer
7 17 (5.23%) Senior Developer
8 15 (4.62%) Lead
9 13 (4.00%) Python Engineer
9 13 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (3.69%) Architect
10 12 (3.69%) Senior Data Scientist
10 12 (3.69%) Site Engineer
11 11 (3.38%) Analyst
11 11 (3.38%) Quantitative Developer
11 11 (3.38%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (2.77%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 9 (2.77%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (2.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.23%) Spring
2 28 (8.62%) Kafka
3 27 (8.31%) React
4 21 (6.46%) TensorFlow
5 20 (6.15%) Pandas
5 20 (6.15%) REST
5 20 (6.15%) RESTful
6 17 (5.23%) scikit-learn
7 15 (4.62%) NumPy
8 14 (4.31%) .NET
8 14 (4.31%) Node.js
8 14 (4.31%) PyTorch
9 12 (3.69%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.69%) CSS
9 12 (3.69%) HTML
9 12 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (3.69%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.08%) Hibernate
11 8 (2.46%) JSON
11 8 (2.46%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 104 (32.00%) Data Structures
2 30 (9.23%) Derivative
2 30 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.38%) Fixed Income
4 19 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (4.00%) Hedge funds
6 10 (3.08%) Equity Derivative
7 8 (2.46%) Equities
8 7 (2.15%) Clustering
8 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.15%) VHDL
9 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.85%) FPGA
10 5 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.54%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.54%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.23%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.23%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.92%) Linux
2 20 (6.15%) Unix
3 13 (4.00%) Android
4 4 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (35.08%) Computer Science
2 102 (31.38%) Machine Learning
3 89 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (22.77%) Agile
4 74 (22.77%) Software Engineering
5 73 (22.46%) Data Science
6 63 (19.38%) CI/CD
7 59 (18.15%) Artificial Intelligence
8 51 (15.69%) Mathematics
9 49 (15.08%) Analytics
10 48 (14.77%) Design Patterns
10 48 (14.77%) Test Automation
11 43 (13.23%) Validation
12 39 (12.00%) Data Modelling
12 39 (12.00%) OO
13 38 (11.69%) Software Architecture
14 35 (10.77%) Data Analysis
15 33 (10.15%) DevOps
16 32 (9.85%) Microservices
17 31 (9.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 151 (46.46%) Python
2 98 (30.15%) Java
3 65 (20.00%) C++
4 64 (19.69%) SQL
5 43 (13.23%) MATLAB
6 34 (10.46%) JavaScript
7 28 (8.62%) R
8 27 (8.31%) C
8 27 (8.31%) C#
9 23 (7.08%) Shell Script
10 17 (5.23%) Go
10 17 (5.23%) Scala
11 12 (3.69%) TypeScript
12 11 (3.38%) Kotlin
13 10 (3.08%) Perl
14 9 (2.77%) Embedded C++
15 6 (1.85%) Embedded C
16 4 (1.23%) Assembly Language
17 3 (0.92%) PHP
18 2 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 102 (31.38%) Degree
2 51 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (9.85%) Master's Degree
4 16 (4.92%) Security Cleared
5 13 (4.00%) PhD
6 11 (3.38%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.92%) QA
2 7 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.85%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.54%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.54%) MISRA
4 5 (1.54%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.23%) GDPR
5 4 (1.23%) JTAG
5 4 (1.23%) MiFID
6 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.92%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.31%) DO-254
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (6.77%) Docker
2 12 (3.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.46%) Firmware
4 7 (2.15%) HDFS
5 5 (1.54%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.69%) Consul
2 12 (3.69%) Grafana
2 12 (3.69%) Prometheus
3 5 (1.54%) Hadoop YARN
3 5 (1.54%) Terraform
4 2 (0.62%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.62%) Istio
5 1 (0.31%) Ganglia
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.69%) SaltStack
3 9 (2.77%) Databricks
4 7 (2.15%) Google
4 7 (2.15%) ION Trading
4 7 (2.15%) Oracle
5 5 (1.54%) NVIDIA
6 4 (1.23%) Xilinx
7 3 (0.92%) Genesys
7 3 (0.92%) MathWorks
8 2 (0.62%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.62%) CA
8 2 (0.62%) SAP
9 1 (0.31%) IBM
9 1 (0.31%) Informatica
9 1 (0.31%) Lotus
9 1 (0.31%) Mentor Graphics
9 1 (0.31%) New Relic
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) Splunk