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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 278 342
Rank change year-on-year +12 +64 -24
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 364 541 686
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.95% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.82% 2.85% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 341 433
10th Percentile £400 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £613 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -9.26% +22.73%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £788
90th Percentile £875 £950 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -8.17% +1.21% +13.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 28
10th Percentile £33.56 £19.00 £19.20
25th Percentile £47.38 £20.47 £21.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -51.38% +6.47%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.76 £55.16
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £58.53
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 12,885 18,988 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 33.25% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,301 13,052 20,257
10th Percentile £269 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 890 627 724
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.23
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.04
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.56% -12.33%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +18 331 £598 -0.42% 484
London +39 217 £650 -7.14% 226
Work from Home +73 137 £675 +10.20% 236
UK excluding London -8 108 £500 -8.17% 264
North of England +20 26 £475 -12.76% 45
Midlands +44 19 £550 - 36
South West +9 19 £450 -10.00% 29
West Midlands +31 18 £550 -2.22% 34
East of England +7 18 £375 -23.08% 44
South East -15 16 £600 +4.35% 93
North West +15 14 £525 +0.48% 28
Yorkshire +25 12 £400 -30.43% 14
Scotland +25 10 £475 -36.67% 15
East Midlands +15 1 - - 2

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 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.47%) SAS
3 8 (2.20%) Apache
4 5 (1.37%) IBM Notes
5 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) CMS
6 3 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.27%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 38 (10.44%) Simulink
2 28 (7.69%) Stateflow
3 6 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.37%) TargetLink
5 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Orchestrade
1 3 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.55%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) RMDS
3 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 58 (15.93%) AWS
2 39 (10.71%) Azure
3 28 (7.69%) GCP
4 10 (2.75%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (1.65%) npm
6 6 (1.65%) Yarn
7 5 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (1.37%) SaaS
7 5 (1.37%) Serverless
8 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.10%) PaaS
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.65%) Internet
1 6 (1.65%) Wireless
2 5 (1.37%) DNS
2 5 (1.37%) Firewall
3 4 (1.10%) DHCP
3 4 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.82%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.82%) Network Security
4 3 (0.82%) RTSP
5 2 (0.55%) SSH
6 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.24%) Big Data
2 29 (7.97%) Relational Database
3 19 (5.22%) Hadoop
4 18 (4.95%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.57%) Tableau
6 12 (3.30%) KDB
6 12 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.92%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.92%) Power BI
9 6 (1.65%) Apache Hive
10 5 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.37%) HBase
11 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.10%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.10%) Redis
12 3 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.55%) Kdb+
13 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (10.99%) Git
2 21 (5.77%) JIRA
3 14 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.85%) Subversion
4 7 (1.92%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.92%) GitLab
4 7 (1.92%) Maven
4 7 (1.92%) TeamCity
4 7 (1.92%) webpack
5 6 (1.65%) JUnit
6 4 (1.10%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.10%) Gradle
6 4 (1.10%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.10%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.10%) Mocha
6 4 (1.10%) Selenium
7 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.82%) XCUITest
8 2 (0.55%) Ant
8 2 (0.55%) Babel
General
1 112 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (18.41%) Finance
4 31 (8.52%) Automotive
5 30 (8.24%) Front Office
6 23 (6.32%) Banking
7 22 (6.04%) Legal
8 10 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.75%) Retail
9 9 (2.47%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.92%) Marketing
12 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.37%) Police
14 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.82%) Games
15 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (33.24%) Developer
2 50 (13.74%) Data Scientist
3 49 (13.46%) Senior
4 39 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 26 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 19 (5.22%) Analyst
6 19 (5.22%) Data Engineer
6 19 (5.22%) Senior Developer
7 17 (4.67%) Python Developer
7 17 (4.67%) Quantitative Developer
8 16 (4.40%) Lead
8 16 (4.40%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 13 (3.57%) Senior Data Scientist
10 12 (3.30%) Architect
11 11 (3.02%) C# Developer
11 11 (3.02%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 11 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (2.75%) C++ Developer
12 10 (2.75%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (8.24%) React
2 27 (7.42%) Spring
3 26 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 24 (6.59%) Kafka
5 20 (5.49%) Pandas
6 19 (5.22%) scikit-learn
7 18 (4.95%) RESTful
8 16 (4.40%) .NET
8 16 (4.40%) Node.js
8 16 (4.40%) PyTorch
9 15 (4.12%) NumPy
9 15 (4.12%) REST
10 14 (3.85%) CSS
11 13 (3.57%) HTML
12 11 (3.02%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.47%) Spring Boot
14 8 (2.20%) Django
14 8 (2.20%) JSON
14 8 (2.20%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 104 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 33 (9.07%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.97%) Derivative
4 23 (6.32%) Fixed Income
5 22 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (4.12%) Hedge funds
7 12 (3.30%) Equity Derivative
8 11 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.47%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.92%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.92%) Clustering
11 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.65%) Equities
12 6 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.65%) VHDL
13 5 (1.37%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.37%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.26%) Linux
2 22 (6.04%) Unix
3 14 (3.85%) Android
4 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (34.34%) Computer Science
2 114 (31.32%) Machine Learning
3 88 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (22.53%) Data Science
5 81 (22.25%) Agile
6 78 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 62 (17.03%) Artificial Intelligence
8 59 (16.21%) CI/CD
9 58 (15.93%) Mathematics
10 53 (14.56%) Analytics
11 51 (14.01%) Data Modelling
12 49 (13.46%) Software Architecture
12 49 (13.46%) Test Automation
13 45 (12.36%) Data Analysis
13 45 (12.36%) Design Patterns
14 44 (12.09%) Validation
15 38 (10.44%) OO
16 32 (8.79%) Microservices
17 30 (8.24%) Statistics
18 28 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 158 (43.41%) Python
2 96 (26.37%) Java
3 69 (18.96%) SQL
4 65 (17.86%) C++
5 50 (13.74%) MATLAB
6 39 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 36 (9.89%) C#
8 27 (7.42%) C
9 25 (6.87%) R
10 22 (6.04%) Scala
11 20 (5.49%) Shell Script
12 17 (4.67%) TypeScript
13 15 (4.12%) Go
14 12 (3.30%) Kotlin
15 11 (3.02%) Perl
16 9 (2.47%) Embedded C++
17 6 (1.65%) Embedded C
18 4 (1.10%) Assembly Language
19 3 (0.82%) PHP
20 2 (0.55%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 110 (30.22%) Degree
2 55 (15.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (10.16%) Master's Degree
4 25 (6.87%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 14 (3.85%) PhD
7 8 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.12%) QA
2 7 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.65%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.37%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.37%) MISRA
4 5 (1.37%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.10%) JTAG
5 4 (1.10%) MiFID
6 3 (0.82%) NCSC
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (6.59%) Docker
2 9 (2.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 8 (2.20%) Firmware
4 5 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.75%) Grafana
2 10 (2.75%) Prometheus
3 9 (2.47%) Consul
4 6 (1.65%) Terraform
5 5 (1.37%) Hadoop YARN
6 2 (0.55%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.27%) Istio
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 28 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.47%) SaltStack
3 8 (2.20%) Google
4 7 (1.92%) Databricks
4 7 (1.92%) ION Trading
4 7 (1.92%) Oracle
5 5 (1.37%) Lotus
5 5 (1.37%) New Relic
5 5 (1.37%) NVIDIA
5 5 (1.37%) Splunk
6 4 (1.10%) SAP
6 4 (1.10%) Xilinx
7 3 (0.82%) Ariba
7 3 (0.82%) Genesys
7 3 (0.82%) MathWorks
7 3 (0.82%) Sparx
8 2 (0.55%) CA
8 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.27%) IBM
9 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow