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 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 108 122
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +37
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 47 41 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.59% 1.74% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.04% 4.15% 4.75%
Number of salaries quoted 34 19 46
10th Percentile - £67,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £113,750 £155,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £170,000 £173,000 £147,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +21.21%

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 932 988 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.58% 41.99% 33.99%
Number of salaries quoted 683 636 894
10th Percentile £41,350 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £53,797 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £114,750 £123,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

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 4 March 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 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
2 20 (42.55%) Azure
3 19 (40.43%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (38.30%) BigQuery
1 18 (38.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.13%) KDB
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Tick Data
General
1 11 (23.40%) Front Office
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.51%) Legal
4 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Software Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) Senior
3 8 (17.02%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Developer
5 5 (10.64%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Lead
6 4 (8.51%) Risk Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Risk Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Technology Risk Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Qualitative Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Quantitative Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Analytics Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Quantitative Developer
9 1 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 1 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Django
2 9 (19.15%) RESTful
3 7 (14.89%) Java Concurrency
4 6 (12.77%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (12.77%) Kafka
5 4 (8.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 3 (6.38%) XML
6 3 (6.38%) XSLT
7 2 (4.26%) React
8 1 (2.13%) .NET
8 1 (2.13%) .NET Core
8 1 (2.13%) CrewAI
8 1 (2.13%) Hugging Face
8 1 (2.13%) LangChain
8 1 (2.13%) LangGraph
8 1 (2.13%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 26 (55.32%) Data Structures
2 18 (38.30%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (27.66%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (14.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
5 6 (12.77%) Derivative
6 4 (8.51%) Blockchain
6 4 (8.51%) Equities
6 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
7 3 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (6.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (6.38%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (4.26%) Hedge funds
8 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
9 1 (2.13%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) Computer Science
2 29 (61.70%) Software Engineering
3 23 (48.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (44.68%) Microservices
5 13 (27.66%) Mentoring
5 13 (27.66%) Software Architecture
6 12 (25.53%) Agile
6 12 (25.53%) Data Science
7 11 (23.40%) Machine Learning
7 11 (23.40%) SDLC
8 10 (21.28%) AI
8 10 (21.28%) Analytics
8 10 (21.28%) DevOps
8 10 (21.28%) Multithreading
9 9 (19.15%) Code Quality
9 9 (19.15%) Customer-Centricity
9 9 (19.15%) Low Latency
10 8 (17.02%) Mathematics
10 8 (17.02%) Quantitative Research
11 7 (14.89%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) C++
3 8 (17.02%) Java
4 4 (8.51%) C#
4 4 (8.51%) SQL
5 3 (6.38%) VBA
5 3 (6.38%) VC++
6 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.13%) R
7 1 (2.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (61.70%) Degree
2 24 (51.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.51%) CISA
3 4 (8.51%) CISM
3 4 (8.51%) CISSP
3 4 (8.51%) CRISC
3 4 (8.51%) PhD
3 4 (8.51%) Postgraduate
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.38%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Google
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle