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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 105 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +39
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 33 63 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.05% 2.27% 1.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.65% 5.64% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 24 42
10th Percentile £96,375 £53,625 £60,250
25th Percentile £111,250 £63,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £137,500 £75,500 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +82.12% -17.26% -3.95%
75th Percentile £170,000 £95,625 £122,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £121,750 £142,500
Central London median annual salary £137,500 £75,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +82.12% -20.53% -

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 710 1,117 1,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 44.21% 40.21% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 590 669 1,012
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £118,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 18 October 2025.

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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.06%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 2 (6.06%) Azure
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) KDB
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Tick Data
General
1 16 (48.48%) Front Office
2 14 (42.42%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Financial Institution
4 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (12.12%) Legal
5 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Quantitative Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Release Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Risk Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Risk Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Technology Risk Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 1 (3.03%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Java Developer - Algorithmic Trading
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Rust Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) Kafka
2 6 (18.18%) Java Concurrency
3 5 (15.15%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.03%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (36.36%) Data Structures
2 12 (36.36%) Equities
3 7 (21.21%) Derivative
4 5 (15.15%) Fixed Income
4 5 (15.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (12.12%) Management Information System
5 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
6 3 (9.09%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (6.06%) Hedge funds
7 2 (6.06%) TWAP
7 2 (6.06%) VWAP
8 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (3.03%) Life Science
8 1 (3.03%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Low Latency
2 16 (48.48%) Computer Science
3 15 (45.45%) Algorithmic Trading
4 14 (42.42%) Analytics
4 14 (42.42%) Mathematics
5 12 (36.36%) Electronic Trading
6 10 (30.30%) Data Analysis
6 10 (30.30%) Data Analytics
6 10 (30.30%) Multithreading
6 10 (30.30%) Quantitative Research
6 10 (30.30%) Statistics
7 9 (27.27%) Applied Mathematics
7 9 (27.27%) Quantitative Trading
8 8 (24.24%) AI
8 8 (24.24%) Design Patterns
8 8 (24.24%) Machine Learning
8 8 (24.24%) Systematic Trading
9 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
9 7 (21.21%) High-Frequency Trading
9 7 (21.21%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) C++
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Scala
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) R
6 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 8 (24.24%) Master's Degree
3 7 (21.21%) PhD
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (12.12%) CISA
5 4 (12.12%) CISM
5 4 (12.12%) CISSP
5 4 (12.12%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
2 4 (12.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Ansible
1 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
1 2 (6.06%) Puppet
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.03%) Google
1 1 (3.03%) Solace