Algorithms
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 210 128
Rank change year-on-year +90 -82 +91
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 2,322 1,755 5,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.30% 1.78% 3.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.59% 4.17% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 753 800 1,171
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the UK

Algorithms
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +106 1,950 £60,000 - 391
England +22 1,419 £65,000 -13.33% 601
Scotland +113 871 £65,000 +32.65% 18
South East +80 482 £58,000 -3.33% 216
Work from Home +18 471 £64,097 -14.54% 270
London -38 338 £85,000 - 330
Midlands -7 158 £62,500 +19.05% 44
North of England -53 152 £55,000 -12.00% 43
East of England +5 140 £65,000 - 43
South West +15 139 £60,000 -7.69% 26
North West -42 130 £60,000 -8.40% 24
West Midlands -16 85 £57,500 -4.17% 38
East Midlands +30 73 £75,250 +58.42% 6
Yorkshire +6 20 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Wales +14 6 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Northern Ireland +28 2 £58,750 -41.25% 3
North East -8 2 £91,200 +40.31% 7

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
1 256 (11.02%) Apache Spark
2 73 (3.14%) Apache
3 21 (0.90%) FileNet
4 9 (0.39%) SAS
5 7 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.30%) Confluence
5 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.17%) ColdFusion
7 4 (0.17%) IIS
7 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.086%) CMS
10 1 (0.043%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.043%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.043%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.043%) Luigi
10 1 (0.043%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (3.79%) Simulink
2 42 (1.81%) Stateflow
3 24 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 13 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.43%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.30%) CANalyzer
8 4 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.086%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.043%) Blender
10 1 (0.043%) CapCut
10 1 (0.043%) InVision
10 1 (0.043%) Sketch
10 1 (0.043%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.13%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.043%) Data Workbench
3 1 (0.043%) Endur
3 1 (0.043%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.043%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.043%) Yoast SEO
Cloud Services
1 575 (24.76%) AWS
2 435 (18.73%) Azure
3 238 (10.25%) IBM Cloud
4 206 (8.87%) Serverless
5 135 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (5.68%) Azure Functions
6 132 (5.68%) GCP
7 125 (5.38%) Azure API Management
7 125 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 74 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (3.06%) Amazon SQS
10 66 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
13 51 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
13 51 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (2.20%) SaaS
14 43 (1.85%) Amazon S3
15 42 (1.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (0.95%) Wireless
2 18 (0.78%) J1939
3 14 (0.60%) Ethernet
4 11 (0.47%) OFDM
5 9 (0.39%) Internet
6 8 (0.34%) Firewall
6 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.30%) HTTP
8 6 (0.26%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.22%) BGP
9 5 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (0.22%) IPsec
9 5 (0.22%) LAN
9 5 (0.22%) Modbus
9 5 (0.22%) Network Security
9 5 (0.22%) OSPF
9 5 (0.22%) SSL
9 5 (0.22%) VLAN
9 5 (0.22%) VPN
9 5 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 520 (22.39%) NoSQL
2 265 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (10.51%) MongoDB
4 238 (10.25%) DB2
5 230 (9.91%) Relational Database
6 222 (9.56%) Big Data
7 198 (8.53%) Hadoop
8 103 (4.44%) Apache Hive
9 86 (3.70%) HBase
10 80 (3.45%) Data Lake
11 75 (3.23%) Tableau
12 72 (3.10%) Elasticsearch
13 60 (2.58%) Redis
14 53 (2.28%) SQL Server
15 52 (2.24%) MySQL
16 51 (2.20%) Electronic Patient Records
17 42 (1.81%) Power BI
18 41 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
19 39 (1.68%) Qlik Sense
20 23 (0.99%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 221 (9.52%) Git
2 126 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 86 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 73 (3.14%) JUnit
5 41 (1.77%) JIRA
6 25 (1.08%) Android Studio
7 23 (0.99%) Cypress.io
8 22 (0.95%) GitLab
9 21 (0.90%) Jasmine
9 21 (0.90%) Karma Test Runner
9 21 (0.90%) Protractor
9 21 (0.90%) Selenium
9 21 (0.90%) WebDriver
10 19 (0.82%) ClearCase
11 18 (0.78%) Plastic SCM
12 17 (0.73%) CMake
12 17 (0.73%) Subversion
13 16 (0.69%) Maven
14 14 (0.60%) ClearQuest
15 7 (0.30%) Moq
General
1 1,091 (46.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 943 (40.61%) Finance
3 825 (35.53%) Law
4 555 (23.90%) Legal
5 413 (17.79%) Social Skills
6 244 (10.51%) Public Sector
7 241 (10.38%) Marketing
8 199 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
9 155 (6.68%) Banking
10 118 (5.08%) Investment Banking
11 87 (3.75%) Electronics
12 52 (2.24%) Automotive
13 49 (2.11%) Retail
14 46 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 44 (1.89%) Military
16 41 (1.77%) Manufacturing
17 39 (1.68%) Games
18 26 (1.12%) Front Office
19 23 (0.99%) Private Banking
19 23 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,006 (43.32%) Software Engineer
2 404 (17.40%) Developer
3 288 (12.40%) Senior
4 280 (12.06%) Data Scientist
5 272 (11.71%) Java Engineer
5 272 (11.71%) Java Software Engineer
6 259 (11.15%) Full Stack Engineer
7 201 (8.66%) AWS Engineer
8 198 (8.53%) AWS Software Engineer
9 178 (7.67%) Data Engineer
10 171 (7.36%) Python Engineer
11 154 (6.63%) Python Software Engineer
12 145 (6.24%) Full Stack Developer
13 138 (5.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 136 (5.86%) Azure Developer
15 133 (5.73%) Big Data Engineer
15 133 (5.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
16 127 (5.47%) Lead
17 122 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
18 96 (4.13%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (19.34%) React
2 415 (17.87%) AngularJS
3 370 (15.93%) HTML
4 344 (14.81%) CSS
5 330 (14.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 329 (14.17%) .NET
7 325 (14.00%) Web Services
8 311 (13.39%) jQuery
9 278 (11.97%) REST
10 265 (11.41%) Vue
11 256 (11.02%) Node.js
12 251 (10.81%) ASP.NET
13 239 (10.29%) ASP.NET Core
14 238 (10.25%) Backbone.js
14 238 (10.25%) Ember.js
15 223 (9.60%) Spring
16 154 (6.63%) Kafka
17 130 (5.60%) TensorFlow
18 106 (4.57%) J2EE
19 100 (4.31%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 563 (24.25%) Data Structures
2 271 (11.67%) Blockchain
3 244 (10.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 168 (7.24%) Onboarding
5 138 (5.94%) Cloud Native
6 113 (4.87%) e-Learning
7 50 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
8 47 (2.02%) Client/Server
9 43 (1.85%) Legacy Code
10 38 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.51%) CUDA
11 35 (1.51%) FPGA
12 33 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 33 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 33 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 33 (1.42%) VHDL
13 32 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 31 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 27 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 408 (17.57%) Linux
2 290 (12.49%) Windows
3 281 (12.10%) Android
4 250 (10.77%) Apple iOS
5 142 (6.12%) Unix
6 10 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.043%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,207 (51.98%) Software Engineering
2 1,158 (49.87%) Agile
3 1,129 (48.62%) Artificial Intelligence
4 972 (41.86%) Machine Learning
5 939 (40.44%) Visualisation
6 849 (36.56%) CI/CD
7 793 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 791 (34.07%) SDLC
9 686 (29.54%) Community of Practice
10 679 (29.24%) Operational Stability
11 564 (24.29%) Computer Science
12 520 (22.39%) Risk Management
13 513 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
14 477 (20.54%) Mathematics
15 426 (18.35%) Data Science
16 417 (17.96%) Full Stack Development
17 386 (16.62%) OO
18 336 (14.47%) User Experience
19 335 (14.43%) Design Patterns
20 333 (14.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,073 (46.21%) Python
2 853 (36.74%) Java
3 848 (36.52%) SQL
4 438 (18.86%) JavaScript
5 409 (17.61%) C#
6 224 (9.65%) C
7 221 (9.52%) C++
8 142 (6.12%) MATLAB
9 132 (5.68%) TypeScript
10 125 (5.38%) PL/SQL
11 92 (3.96%) Scala
12 78 (3.36%) Go
13 73 (3.14%) R
14 69 (2.97%) Fortran
15 38 (1.64%) Bash
16 37 (1.59%) Embedded C
17 30 (1.29%) Kotlin
18 24 (1.03%) Perl
19 22 (0.95%) Haskell
20 18 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 756 (32.56%) Degree
2 266 (11.46%) Master's Degree
3 200 (8.61%) PhD
4 192 (8.27%) Security Cleared
5 119 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 56 (2.41%) SC Cleared
7 52 (2.24%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 18 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
11 13 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.47%) HND
12 11 (0.47%) MBA
13 5 (0.22%) CCIE
13 5 (0.22%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.22%) JNCIE
14 4 (0.17%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.17%) Postgraduate
15 2 (0.086%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (1.51%) QA
2 32 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 19 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 19 (0.82%) MISRA
4 18 (0.78%) Automotive SPICE
4 18 (0.78%) GDPR
4 18 (0.78%) ISO 26262
5 12 (0.52%) AUTOSAR
6 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 7 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 5 (0.22%) IEC 61508
8 4 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.043%) MISRA C
System Software
1 86 (3.70%) HDFS
2 74 (3.19%) Docker
3 37 (1.59%) Firmware
4 8 (0.34%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.086%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.043%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.043%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 178 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 133 (5.73%) Terraform
3 45 (1.94%) Grafana
4 34 (1.46%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.65%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.30%) Ansible
7 3 (0.13%) Istio
7 3 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.086%) SCCM
9 1 (0.043%) FTK
9 1 (0.043%) SCOM
Vendors
1 263 (11.33%) IBM
2 254 (10.94%) Databricks
3 238 (10.25%) Red Hat
4 117 (5.04%) Oracle
5 100 (4.31%) Microsoft
6 99 (4.26%) Google
7 91 (3.92%) Informatica
8 56 (2.41%) Cloudera
9 47 (2.02%) Alteryx
10 46 (1.98%) Dynatrace
11 45 (1.94%) Splunk
12 24 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 20 (0.86%) Dell
14 18 (0.78%) Lauterbach
15 13 (0.56%) NVIDIA
16 12 (0.52%) Facebook
16 12 (0.52%) SAP
17 10 (0.43%) Instagram
18 8 (0.34%) Teradata
18 8 (0.34%) Xilinx