Algorithms Contracts in the Midlands

Algorithms
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 124 151 179
Rank change year-on-year +27 +28 -25
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 17 7 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.58% 0.22% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 0.67% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 15
10th Percentile £310 £510 £436
25th Percentile £360 £525 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +20.85%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £780
90th Percentile £589 £590 £835
England median daily rate £575 £583 £700
% change year-on-year -1.29% -16.79% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £36.75 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.65% +7.06%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 1,047 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.82% 32.53% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 690 1,054
10th Percentile £213 £263 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £611 £606 £575
90th Percentile £702 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 38 47
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.41 £14.05
25th Percentile £13.91 £20.22 £15.13
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +56.61% +9.75%
75th Percentile £28.88 £54.69 £22.75
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £26.37
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the Midlands

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Algorithms in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +28 16 £425 -24.44% 24
East Midlands +7 1 - - 13
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Simulink
2 5 (29.41%) Stateflow
2 5 (29.41%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
2 5 (29.41%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) Ant
3 1 (5.88%) Gradle
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
General
1 5 (29.41%) Automotive
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.88%) Police
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Publishing
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Control Systems Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) Dask
2 1 (5.88%) Guice
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Keras
2 1 (5.88%) NumPy
2 1 (5.88%) Pandas
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.88%) FPGA
4 1 (5.88%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
1 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
1 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 6 (35.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) Software Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Validation
2 6 (35.29%) Verification and Validation
3 5 (29.41%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) Functional Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Integration Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Line Management
3 5 (29.41%) QMS
3 5 (29.41%) Quality Management
3 5 (29.41%) Software Audit
3 5 (29.41%) UML
3 5 (29.41%) White-Box Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) C
2 7 (41.18%) MATLAB
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) C++
5 3 (17.65%) Scala
6 2 (11.76%) Perl
7 1 (5.88%) R
7 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PhD
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) ISO 26262
2 5 (29.41%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (29.41%) MISRA
2 5 (29.41%) MISRA C
3 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) NVIDIA
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Xilinx