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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 104 133
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 +17
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 55 37 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.63% 1.77% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.41% 4.30% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 41 21 40
10th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £66,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,000 £130,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +33.33% +21.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £161,250 £120,625
90th Percentile £113,750 £172,500 £145,250
Central London median annual salary £92,500 £130,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year -28.85% +33.33% +21.88%

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 1,016 860 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.10% 41.19% 34.03%
Number of salaries quoted 724 632 881
10th Percentile £41,400 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,125 £118,750
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 3 April 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 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 29 (52.73%) AWS
2 24 (43.64%) Azure
2 24 (43.64%) GCP
3 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (43.64%) BigQuery
1 24 (43.64%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (12.73%) Front Office
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Analytics Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) C++ Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Qualitative Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Quantitative Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.64%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Risk Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Risk Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Technology Risk Manager
9 1 (1.82%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (1.82%) Senior Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (43.64%) Django
2 12 (21.82%) RESTful
3 7 (12.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 4 (7.27%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (7.27%) Java Concurrency
4 4 (7.27%) Kafka
4 4 (7.27%) React
5 3 (5.45%) XML
5 3 (5.45%) XSLT
6 2 (3.64%) NumPy
6 2 (3.64%) Pandas
7 1 (1.82%) CrewAI
7 1 (1.82%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.82%) LangChain
7 1 (1.82%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.82%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (52.73%) Data Structures
2 24 (43.64%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (23.64%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (7.27%) Blockchain
5 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
5 4 (7.27%) Derivative
5 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (5.45%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (5.45%) Equities
6 3 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (72.73%) Software Engineering
2 36 (65.45%) Computer Science
3 27 (49.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (45.45%) Microservices
5 16 (29.09%) Agile
5 16 (29.09%) Data Science
5 16 (29.09%) Mentoring
5 16 (29.09%) SDLC
5 16 (29.09%) Software Architecture
6 12 (21.82%) Code Quality
6 12 (21.82%) Customer-Centricity
6 12 (21.82%) DevOps
7 11 (20.00%) Machine Learning
8 8 (14.55%) AI
8 8 (14.55%) Analytics
9 7 (12.73%) Multithreading
10 6 (10.91%) Quantitative Research
11 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (7.27%) Edge Computing
12 4 (7.27%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 38 (69.09%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) C++
3 5 (9.09%) SQL
4 4 (7.27%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.45%) C#
5 3 (5.45%) VBA
5 3 (5.45%) VC++
6 1 (1.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (58.18%) Degree
2 28 (50.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
3 4 (7.27%) PhD
3 4 (7.27%) Postgraduate
4 2 (3.64%) CISA
4 2 (3.64%) CISM
4 2 (3.64%) CISSP
4 2 (3.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) EMIR
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Google
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Oracle