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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 123 124
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 +32
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 45 39 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.74% 1.53% 1.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.28% 3.56% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 34 14 45
10th Percentile £80,000 £60,875 £66,750
25th Percentile £84,063 £70,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £82,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.30% -17.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £139,375 £117,813 £122,500
90th Percentile £170,000 £127,000 £147,500
Central London median annual salary £107,500 £82,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year +30.30% -17.50% +17.65%

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 853 1,096 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.99% 42.95% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 641 650 954
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £121,750
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -6.45%

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 3 February 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) AWS
2 15 (33.33%) GCP
3 14 (31.11%) Azure
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) BigQuery
1 12 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.44%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.44%) KDB
3 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) Tick Data
General
1 14 (31.11%) Front Office
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 4 (8.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Software Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
2 10 (22.22%) Senior
3 6 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Risk Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Risk Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Technology Risk Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Quantitative Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Java Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) Django
2 11 (24.44%) Kafka
3 8 (17.78%) Java Concurrency
4 6 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (13.33%) RESTful
5 4 (8.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.44%) XML
6 2 (4.44%) XSLT
7 1 (2.22%) .NET
7 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.22%) CrewAI
7 1 (2.22%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.22%) LangChain
7 1 (2.22%) LangGraph
7 1 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
Miscellaneous
1 22 (48.89%) Data Structures
2 15 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (28.89%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (17.78%) Equities
5 7 (15.56%) Derivative
6 6 (13.33%) Cloud Native
6 6 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (8.89%) Blockchain
7 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
8 3 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (4.44%) Hedge funds
10 1 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (2.22%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) Computer Science
2 22 (48.89%) Software Engineering
3 17 (37.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (33.33%) Low Latency
4 15 (33.33%) Microservices
5 13 (28.89%) Machine Learning
6 12 (26.67%) AI
6 12 (26.67%) Analytics
6 12 (26.67%) Mathematics
6 12 (26.67%) Multithreading
7 11 (24.44%) Data Science
7 11 (24.44%) Electronic Trading
7 11 (24.44%) Quantitative Research
8 10 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 10 (22.22%) Software Architecture
9 9 (20.00%) Agile
10 8 (17.78%) Data Analytics
10 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.78%) Smart Order Routing
11 7 (15.56%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) Python
2 14 (31.11%) Java
3 9 (20.00%) C++
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) Scala
6 2 (4.44%) VBA
6 2 (4.44%) VC++
7 1 (2.22%) R
7 1 (2.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (60.00%) Degree
2 19 (42.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (15.56%) PhD
4 4 (8.89%) CISA
4 4 (8.89%) CISM
4 4 (8.89%) CISSP
4 4 (8.89%) CRISC
4 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.44%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Ansible
1 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
1 2 (4.44%) Puppet
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle