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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 123 118
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 +46
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 34 44 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.86% 1.56% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.74% 3.74% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 27 18 46
10th Percentile £81,500 £51,250 £68,750
25th Percentile £106,250 £58,125 £74,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £75,500 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year +49.01% -17.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £170,000 £93,750 £122,500
90th Percentile £172,500 £113,875 £147,500
Central London median annual salary £112,500 £75,500 £91,250
% change year-on-year +49.01% -17.26% +1.39%

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 717 1,175 1,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 39.18% 41.74% 33.62%
Number of salaries quoted 567 724 904
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £54,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £123,500 £117,125 £121,750
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 1 December 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) GCP
3 6 (17.65%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (11.76%) KDB
2 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) Tick Data
General
1 17 (50.00%) Front Office
2 14 (41.18%) Finance
3 8 (23.53%) Financial Institution
4 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (11.76%) Legal
5 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Risk Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Risk Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Technology Risk Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Quantitative Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) Kafka
2 7 (20.59%) Java Concurrency
3 5 (14.71%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (11.76%) Django
5 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (2.94%) .NET
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.94%) Ultra Messaging
6 1 (2.94%) XML
6 1 (2.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (35.29%) Data Structures
2 12 (35.29%) Equities
3 8 (23.53%) Derivative
4 7 (20.59%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
7 3 (8.82%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (5.88%) Hedge funds
9 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (2.94%) Blockchain
9 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (2.94%) Fixed Income
9 1 (2.94%) State Machine
9 1 (2.94%) TWAP
9 1 (2.94%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Computer Science
2 20 (58.82%) Low Latency
3 15 (44.12%) Mathematics
4 14 (41.18%) Algorithmic Trading
4 14 (41.18%) Analytics
5 13 (38.24%) Electronic Trading
6 12 (35.29%) Multithreading
6 12 (35.29%) Quantitative Research
7 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
7 10 (29.41%) Data Analytics
7 10 (29.41%) Statistics
8 9 (26.47%) Applied Mathematics
8 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (26.47%) Quantitative Trading
9 8 (23.53%) AI
9 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
9 8 (23.53%) Smart Order Routing
9 8 (23.53%) Systematic Trading
10 7 (20.59%) Microservices
10 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 17 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) C++
4 4 (11.76%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Scala
6 1 (2.94%) R
6 1 (2.94%) Rust
6 1 (2.94%) VBA
6 1 (2.94%) VC++
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) Degree
2 10 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (20.59%) Master's Degree
3 7 (20.59%) PhD
4 4 (11.76%) CISA
4 4 (11.76%) CISM
4 4 (11.76%) CISSP
4 4 (11.76%) CRISC
5 1 (2.94%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) EMIR
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Ansible
1 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
1 2 (5.88%) Puppet
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Solace