Algorithms Job Trends in the City of London

Algorithms
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 103 111
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +44
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 58 41 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.43% 2.01% 1.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.44% 4.86% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 45 23 41
10th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,000 £130,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% +21.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £161,250 £120,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £172,500 £128,750
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £130,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -28.85% +40.54% +13.85%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,066 843 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.20% 41.28% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 773 631 880
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £40,542
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -2.68% -3.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £135,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% - -6.15%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the City of London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the City of London

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 32 (55.17%) AWS
2 25 (43.10%) Azure
2 25 (43.10%) GCP
3 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.10%) BigQuery
1 25 (43.10%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (6.90%) Front Office
3 3 (5.17%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 25 (43.10%) Software Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) Senior
3 8 (13.79%) Developer
4 7 (12.07%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Analytics Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.45%) Lead
8 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Qualitative Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Quantitative Analyst
9 1 (1.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (1.72%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 1 (1.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 1 (1.72%) Programmer
9 1 (1.72%) Python Programmer
9 1 (1.72%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) Django
2 12 (20.69%) RESTful
3 11 (18.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 6 (10.34%) React
5 2 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.45%) Java Concurrency
5 2 (3.45%) Kafka
5 2 (3.45%) NumPy
5 2 (3.45%) Pandas
5 2 (3.45%) XML
5 2 (3.45%) XSLT
6 1 (1.72%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.72%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.72%) LangChain
6 1 (1.72%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.72%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 25 (43.10%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (22.41%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.90%) Blockchain
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.45%) Derivative
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.45%) Equities
6 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (82.76%) Software Engineering
2 37 (63.79%) Computer Science
3 26 (44.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (43.10%) Microservices
5 18 (31.03%) Agile
5 18 (31.03%) SDLC
6 17 (29.31%) Software Architecture
7 16 (27.59%) Data Science
7 16 (27.59%) Mentoring
8 13 (22.41%) DevOps
9 12 (20.69%) Code Quality
9 12 (20.69%) Customer-Centricity
10 9 (15.52%) Analytics
10 9 (15.52%) Machine Learning
11 6 (10.34%) AI
11 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
11 6 (10.34%) Scrum
12 4 (6.90%) Collaborative Culture
12 4 (6.90%) Computer Architecture
12 4 (6.90%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 41 (70.69%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) C++
3 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
4 5 (8.62%) SQL
5 2 (3.45%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) VBA
5 2 (3.45%) VC++
6 1 (1.72%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) Julia
6 1 (1.72%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (53.45%) Degree
2 27 (46.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.90%) PhD
4 4 (6.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) EMIR
2 1 (1.72%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (43.10%) Google
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle