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 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 100 100
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +37
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 21 35 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.69% 2.05% 2.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 4.74% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 29
10th Percentile £66,875 £94,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £74,688 £111,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £135,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +78.81% -22.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £165,625 £93,750
90th Percentile - £172,500 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £135,000 £75,500
% change year-on-year -31.48% +78.81% -22.56%

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 839 738 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 27.39% 43.31% 38.90%
Number of salaries quoted 579 597 712
10th Percentile £46,000 £39,450 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,250 £135,000 £117,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 18 September 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) BigQuery
1 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) KDB
2 1 (4.76%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) QUnit
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Front Office
3 1 (4.76%) Advertising
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Software Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Data Scientist
5 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) KDB Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 5 (23.81%) Django
3 4 (19.05%) React
4 3 (14.29%) Terraform
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
6 1 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (4.76%) gRPC
6 1 (4.76%) Kafka
6 1 (4.76%) NumPy
6 1 (4.76%) Pandas
6 1 (4.76%) Redux
6 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 5 (23.81%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.52%) Fixed Income
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.76%) Equities
5 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Software Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Microservices
4 5 (23.81%) SDLC
5 4 (19.05%) Data Science
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Analytics
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Software Architecture
7 2 (9.52%) Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
7 2 (9.52%) Low Latency
7 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
7 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
7 2 (9.52%) Multithreading
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) C++
3 4 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) Julia
6 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Google