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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 110 131
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +27
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 43 46 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.51% 1.88% 1.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.76% 4.42% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 31 19 45
10th Percentile - £67,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £71,375 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £113,750 £155,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £170,000 £173,000 £147,500
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +21.21%

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 904 1,041 1,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.84% 42.44% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 666 646 909
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £37,900
25th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -0.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £122,500
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 25 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) Azure
3 17 (39.53%) GCP
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (37.21%) BigQuery
1 16 (37.21%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.33%) KDB
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Tick Data
General
1 10 (23.26%) Front Office
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.30%) Legal
5 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Software Engineer
2 11 (25.58%) Senior
3 7 (16.28%) Principal Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 4 (9.30%) Risk Manager
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Manager
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Risk Manager
6 4 (9.30%) Technology Risk Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Quantitative Developer
8 1 (2.33%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Consultant
8 1 (2.33%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) Django
2 8 (18.60%) RESTful
3 7 (16.28%) Java Concurrency
4 6 (13.95%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (13.95%) Kafka
5 4 (9.30%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (4.65%) XML
6 2 (4.65%) XSLT
7 1 (2.33%) .NET
7 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.33%) CrewAI
7 1 (2.33%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.33%) LangChain
7 1 (2.33%) LangGraph
7 1 (2.33%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (2.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (55.81%) Data Structures
2 16 (37.21%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (27.91%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
4 6 (13.95%) Derivative
4 6 (13.95%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (9.30%) Blockchain
5 4 (9.30%) Equities
5 4 (9.30%) Management Information System
6 3 (6.98%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (4.65%) Hedge funds
8 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) Computer Science
2 26 (60.47%) Software Engineering
3 21 (48.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (44.19%) Microservices
5 12 (27.91%) Mentoring
5 12 (27.91%) Software Architecture
6 11 (25.58%) Data Science
6 11 (25.58%) Machine Learning
7 10 (23.26%) Agile
7 10 (23.26%) AI
8 9 (20.93%) Analytics
8 9 (20.93%) DevOps
8 9 (20.93%) Low Latency
8 9 (20.93%) Multithreading
8 9 (20.93%) SDLC
9 8 (18.60%) Code Quality
9 8 (18.60%) Customer-Centricity
9 8 (18.60%) Mathematics
10 7 (16.28%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (16.28%) Smart Order Routing
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) Python
2 8 (18.60%) C++
2 8 (18.60%) Java
3 3 (6.98%) C#
3 3 (6.98%) SQL
4 2 (4.65%) VBA
4 2 (4.65%) VC++
5 1 (2.33%) R
5 1 (2.33%) Rust
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Degree
2 22 (51.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.30%) CISA
3 4 (9.30%) CISM
3 4 (9.30%) CISSP
3 4 (9.30%) CRISC
3 4 (9.30%) PhD
3 4 (9.30%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle