Algorithms Contracts with Work from Home Options

Algorithms
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 207 270 326
Rank change year-on-year +63 +56 -15
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 138 192 326
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 0.80% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.21% 2.55% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 113 224
10th Percentile £413 £400 £422
25th Percentile £500 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £788
90th Percentile £834 £875 £859
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% +20.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 7
10th Percentile £48.00 - £19.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £19.00 £19.71
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -51.11% +15.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £23.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £61.18 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% -51.38% +6.47%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Algorithms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Algorithms trend for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Algorithms.

Algorithms daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Algorithms daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Algorithms.

Algorithms hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Algorithms hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.17%) CMS
1 3 (2.17%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.45%) Apache
2 2 (1.45%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.45%) SAS
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.72%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.72%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (15.94%) Simulink
1 22 (15.94%) Stateflow
2 3 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Orchestrade
1 3 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.72%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.94%) AWS
1 22 (15.94%) Azure
2 18 (13.04%) GCP
3 5 (3.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (1.45%) GitHub
5 2 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (1.45%) Serverless
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.72%) IBM Watson
6 1 (0.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.62%) Wireless
2 3 (2.17%) Network Security
3 2 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.45%) Internet
3 2 (1.45%) RTSP
3 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.72%) 5G
4 1 (0.72%) DHCP
4 1 (0.72%) DNS
4 1 (0.72%) LTE
4 1 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.72%) VPN
4 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.87%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.62%) Big Data
5 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.62%) Tableau
6 3 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.45%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.45%) GIS
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.72%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.72%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (18.12%) Git
2 9 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.80%) JIRA
4 5 (3.62%) GitLab
5 4 (2.90%) Subversion
6 2 (1.45%) JUnit
6 2 (1.45%) Maven
6 2 (1.45%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.72%) CMake
7 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
7 1 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.36%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (18.12%) Automotive
4 20 (14.49%) Legal
5 13 (9.42%) Banking
5 13 (9.42%) Finance
6 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.35%) Retail
8 5 (3.62%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.17%) Front Office
10 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.45%) Marketing
11 2 (1.45%) Military
12 1 (0.72%) Advertising
12 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (31.16%) Developer
2 29 (21.01%) Software Engineer
3 21 (15.22%) Data Scientist
3 21 (15.22%) Senior
4 11 (7.97%) Site Engineer
4 11 (7.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (7.25%) Lead
6 9 (6.52%) Python Developer
7 8 (5.80%) Architect
7 8 (5.80%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.80%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) Senior Data Scientist
8 7 (5.07%) Embedded Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) C++ Developer
9 6 (4.35%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 5 (3.62%) Quantitative Developer
10 5 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Java Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.14%) RESTful
2 13 (9.42%) Kafka
3 12 (8.70%) React
4 11 (7.97%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (7.97%) scikit-learn
4 11 (7.97%) TensorFlow
5 10 (7.25%) .NET
5 10 (7.25%) Django
6 8 (5.80%) PyTorch
7 6 (4.35%) CSS
7 6 (4.35%) HTML
7 6 (4.35%) Spring
8 5 (3.62%) Node.js
8 5 (3.62%) REST
8 5 (3.62%) XGBoost
9 4 (2.90%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.90%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.17%) Matplotlib
10 3 (2.17%) Pandas
10 3 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 40 (28.99%) Data Structures
2 15 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.52%) Derivative
3 9 (6.52%) Hedge funds
4 8 (5.80%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (5.07%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.90%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.17%) Blockchain
7 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.45%) CUDA
8 2 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.45%) FMCG
8 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.45%) PKI
9 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (5.07%) Unix
3 2 (1.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.30%) Computer Science
2 46 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 38 (27.54%) Data Science
3 38 (27.54%) Software Engineering
4 37 (26.81%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (21.74%) Artificial Intelligence
5 30 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 28 (20.29%) Mathematics
6 28 (20.29%) Validation
7 27 (19.57%) Test Automation
8 24 (17.39%) Analytics
9 21 (15.22%) Microservices
10 20 (14.49%) Agile
10 20 (14.49%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
11 19 (13.77%) Verification and Validation
12 17 (12.32%) Software Architecture
13 16 (11.59%) Data Analysis
13 16 (11.59%) DevOps
14 15 (10.87%) OO
15 12 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 70 (50.72%) Python
2 31 (22.46%) C++
3 29 (21.01%) Java
4 27 (19.57%) MATLAB
5 24 (17.39%) SQL
6 15 (10.87%) Shell Script
7 12 (8.70%) C#
8 11 (7.97%) R
9 10 (7.25%) Go
9 10 (7.25%) JavaScript
10 6 (4.35%) Scala
11 5 (3.62%) C
12 4 (2.90%) Assembly Language
12 4 (2.90%) Perl
13 3 (2.17%) Bash
14 2 (1.45%) Embedded C++
14 2 (1.45%) PHP
14 2 (1.45%) Rust
15 1 (0.72%) Bicep
15 1 (0.72%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 36 (26.09%) Degree
2 14 (10.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (6.52%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.80%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (5.07%) PhD
5 7 (5.07%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) JTAG
2 3 (2.17%) NCSC
3 2 (1.45%) MiFID
4 1 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (9.42%) Docker
2 11 (7.97%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (2.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (2.90%) Firmware
4 2 (1.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (18.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.97%) Consul
2 11 (7.97%) Grafana
2 11 (7.97%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.72%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 22 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.97%) SaltStack
3 4 (2.90%) NVIDIA
3 4 (2.90%) Oracle
4 3 (2.17%) Google
4 3 (2.17%) MathWorks
4 3 (2.17%) Sparx
5 2 (1.45%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.45%) Databricks
5 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.72%) IBM
6 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) SAP