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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 99 114
Rank change year-on-year -7 +15 +39
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 51 40 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.20% 2.06% 1.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.66% 4.91% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 39 19 38
10th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £54,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,000 £150,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.33% +71.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £166,875 £120,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £173,000 £140,500
Central London median annual salary £96,250 £150,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -35.83% +71.43% +7.69%

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 1,094 814 1,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 25.75% 41.94% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 791 612 871
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £145,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -6.45%

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 12 June 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 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 29 (56.86%) AWS
2 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 21 (41.18%) GCP
3 7 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) Broadband
2 1 (1.96%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (41.18%) BigQuery
1 21 (41.18%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.88%) Front Office
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.96%) Games
4 1 (1.96%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Software Engineer
2 11 (21.57%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Developer
4 7 (13.73%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Analytics Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.92%) Lead
8 2 (3.92%) Principal Software Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Analyst
9 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 1 (1.96%) Programmer
9 1 (1.96%) Python Programmer
9 1 (1.96%) Qualitative Analyst
9 1 (1.96%) Quantitative Analyst
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Programmer
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Python Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (41.18%) Django
2 11 (21.57%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 10 (19.61%) RESTful
4 7 (13.73%) React
5 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (3.92%) NumPy
5 2 (3.92%) Pandas
6 1 (1.96%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.96%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.96%) Java Concurrency
6 1 (1.96%) Kafka
6 1 (1.96%) LangChain
6 1 (1.96%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.96%) REST
6 1 (1.96%) XML
6 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (45.10%) Data Structures
2 21 (41.18%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (21.57%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (13.73%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.92%) Equities
5 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.96%) Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (86.27%) Software Engineering
2 32 (62.75%) Computer Science
3 22 (43.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (41.18%) Microservices
5 17 (33.33%) Agile
5 17 (33.33%) SDLC
6 13 (25.49%) Data Science
6 13 (25.49%) Software Architecture
7 12 (23.53%) DevOps
7 12 (23.53%) Mentoring
8 10 (19.61%) Code Quality
8 10 (19.61%) Customer-Centricity
9 8 (15.69%) Analytics
9 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
10 7 (13.73%) Scrum
11 6 (11.76%) Machine Learning
12 4 (7.84%) AI
13 3 (5.88%) Decision-Making
13 3 (5.88%) Multithreading
13 3 (5.88%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 36 (70.59%) Python
2 12 (23.53%) C++
3 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.84%) SQL
5 2 (3.92%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) C#
6 1 (1.96%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) Julia
6 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.96%) R
6 1 (1.96%) VBA
6 1 (1.96%) VC++
Qualifications
1 25 (49.02%) Degree
2 23 (45.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (13.73%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) PhD
4 2 (3.92%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) EMIR
1 1 (1.96%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Google
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle