Algorithms Contracts in the West Midlands

Algorithms
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the West 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 95 123 155
Rank change year-on-year +28 +32 -30
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 16 6 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.78% 0.27% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.55% 0.82% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £310 £508 £419
25th Percentile £360 £519 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £700
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -19.64% +69.18%
75th Percentile £566 £581 £794
90th Percentile £589 £593 £859
England median daily rate £575 £583 £700
% change year-on-year -1.29% -16.79% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £51.53 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.19 - -
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
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Algorithms in the West Midlands

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +17 6 £420 -21.86% 9
Worcestershire +4 3 £550 -4.35%
Warwickshire -4 1 - - 1
Coventry - 1 £550 - 4
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Simulink
2 5 (31.25%) Stateflow
2 5 (31.25%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
2 5 (31.25%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) Ant
3 1 (6.25%) Gradle
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 5 (31.25%) Automotive
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.25%) Publishing
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Control Systems Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Dask
2 1 (6.25%) Guice
2 1 (6.25%) Keras
2 1 (6.25%) NumPy
2 1 (6.25%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.25%) FPGA
4 1 (6.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 6 (37.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 6 (37.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Project Management
2 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 6 (37.50%) Validation
2 6 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 5 (31.25%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Functional Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Line Management
3 5 (31.25%) QMS
3 5 (31.25%) Quality Management
3 5 (31.25%) Software Audit
3 5 (31.25%) UML
3 5 (31.25%) White-Box Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) C
2 7 (43.75%) MATLAB
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Perl
5 2 (12.50%) Scala
6 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) PhD
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) ISO 26262
2 5 (31.25%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (31.25%) MISRA
2 5 (31.25%) MISRA C
3 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) NVIDIA
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Xilinx