Algorithms Job Trends in England

Algorithms
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 197 205
Rank change year-on-year -110 +8 -42
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 365 737 975
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.60% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 4.28% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 188 374 612
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £55,000 £52,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,450 £67,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -0.74% -6.90%
75th Percentile £111,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £109,625 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -6.90%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,131 17,218 23,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.43% 37.43% 35.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9,773 8,064 17,670
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,644 £57,023
% change year-on-year -10.78% +8.10% -12.27%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in England

Algorithms
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the England region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 194 £102,500 +7.89% 131
South East -106 50 £67,500 +8.00% 87
East of England -39 37 £55,000 -27.63% 28
South West -44 29 £40,792 -37.24% 43
North of England -40 26 £37,500 -37.50% 44
Midlands -10 22 £73,000 +21.67% 34
North West -7 17 £41,250 -41.07% 23
West Midlands +11 11 £55,000 -8.33% 15
East Midlands -25 9 £75,000 +25.00% 19
Yorkshire -30 7 £37,500 -16.67% 14
North East -10 2 £37,500 -37.50% 7
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 14 (3.84%) Apache Spark
1 14 (3.84%) Jupyter
2 12 (3.29%) Kinematics
3 9 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.37%) IIS
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.55%) Luigi
6 2 (0.55%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (3.84%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.92%) Simulink
3 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.82%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.82%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (1.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.55%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 64 (17.53%) AWS
2 48 (13.15%) Azure
3 41 (11.23%) GCP
4 18 (4.93%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (4.11%) GitHub
6 13 (3.56%) Azure Machine Learning
6 13 (3.56%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.74%) Google Analytics
8 9 (2.47%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.37%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.10%) dbt
10 4 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.10%) LangSmith
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.82%) Canva
11 3 (0.82%) Firebase
11 3 (0.82%) Slack
12 2 (0.55%) Google App Engine
12 2 (0.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.29%) Multicast
2 6 (1.64%) Broadband
2 6 (1.64%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.37%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.10%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.10%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.21%) Big Data
2 17 (4.66%) BigQuery
2 17 (4.66%) Metadata
3 16 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (4.11%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.56%) Hadoop
5 13 (3.56%) Power BI
6 11 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.01%) Tableau
7 10 (2.74%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.37%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.37%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.82%) Looker
11 3 (0.82%) Redis
12 2 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.55%) KDB
13 1 (0.27%) GIS
13 1 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (6.03%) Rational DOORS
2 18 (4.93%) Git
3 16 (4.38%) Visual Studio Code
4 13 (3.56%) JIRA
5 7 (1.92%) MLflow
6 2 (0.55%) GitLab
6 2 (0.55%) JConsole
6 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.55%) VisualVM
7 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 119 (32.60%) Finance
2 87 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 61 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.33%) Electronics
5 42 (11.51%) Front Office
6 37 (10.14%) Marketing
7 31 (8.49%) Games
8 28 (7.67%) Law
9 23 (6.30%) Banking
10 21 (5.75%) Retail
11 20 (5.48%) Manufacturing
12 17 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.29%) Financial Institution
13 12 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (2.74%) Legal
14 10 (2.74%) Public Sector
15 8 (2.19%) Automotive
16 7 (1.92%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.64%) Aeronautics
17 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 71 (19.45%) Senior
2 63 (17.26%) Developer
2 63 (17.26%) Software Engineer
3 44 (12.05%) Lead
4 29 (7.95%) Quantitative Developer
5 26 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 25 (6.85%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.58%) Principal Engineer
8 23 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (5.75%) C++ Software Engineer
9 21 (5.75%) Python Developer
9 21 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (5.21%) C++ Developer
10 19 (5.21%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Data Scientist
11 18 (4.93%) Linux Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Senior C++ Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 18 (4.93%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 26 (7.12%) TensorFlow
3 24 (6.58%) Django
3 24 (6.58%) scikit-learn
4 23 (6.30%) FIX Protocol
5 22 (6.03%) Pandas
6 21 (5.75%) NumPy
7 20 (5.48%) PyTorch
8 17 (4.66%) Kafka
8 17 (4.66%) Matplotlib
9 16 (4.38%) Streamlit
10 15 (4.11%) Hugging Face
11 14 (3.84%) .NET
12 12 (3.29%) Middleware
12 12 (3.29%) pytest
13 10 (2.74%) FHIR
13 10 (2.74%) HTML
14 9 (2.47%) FastAPI
14 9 (2.47%) Flask
14 9 (2.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.44%) Data Structures
2 45 (12.33%) Equities
3 41 (11.23%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (6.85%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.30%) Hedge funds
6 22 (6.03%) Cloud Native
7 21 (5.75%) Derivative
8 19 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (4.11%) Robotics
10 13 (3.56%) Fixed Income
11 12 (3.29%) Life Science
11 12 (3.29%) Product Ownership
12 11 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (3.01%) Social Media
13 10 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
13 10 (2.74%) Omics
14 8 (2.19%) 3D Graphics
14 8 (2.19%) FPGA
15 7 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.05%) Linux
2 4 (1.10%) Android
2 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.10%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (39.45%) AI
2 126 (34.52%) Software Engineering
3 125 (34.25%) Computer Science
3 125 (34.25%) Machine Learning
4 111 (30.41%) Analytics
5 83 (22.74%) Data Science
6 73 (20.00%) Mathematics
7 69 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
8 59 (16.16%) Agile
9 56 (15.34%) Low Latency
10 49 (13.42%) OOP
10 49 (13.42%) Statistics
11 47 (12.88%) Visualisation
12 45 (12.33%) Data Analytics
12 45 (12.33%) Decision-Making
12 45 (12.33%) DevOps
12 45 (12.33%) OO
13 44 (12.05%) SDLC
14 39 (10.68%) Data Analysis
14 39 (10.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 216 (59.18%) Python
2 99 (27.12%) C++
3 57 (15.62%) SQL
4 45 (12.33%) Java
5 44 (12.05%) C
6 32 (8.77%) C#
7 17 (4.66%) R
8 14 (3.84%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.84%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.47%) Rust
10 8 (2.19%) Scala
11 7 (1.92%) Assembly Language
11 7 (1.92%) Go
12 5 (1.37%) Bash
13 4 (1.10%) Fortran
13 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.82%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.82%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.82%) Swift
14 3 (0.82%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 152 (41.64%) Degree
2 75 (20.55%) Master's Degree
3 74 (20.27%) PhD
4 35 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (8.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (7.40%) Security Cleared
7 23 (6.30%) SC Cleared
8 14 (3.84%) AWS Certification
8 14 (3.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (2.19%) CISM
9 8 (2.19%) CISSP
10 7 (1.92%) CISA
10 7 (1.92%) CRISC
11 6 (1.64%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.37%) MBA
13 4 (1.10%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.10%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.27%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.40%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 13 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.29%) QA
5 10 (2.74%) CDISC
5 10 (2.74%) GxP
5 10 (2.74%) HL7
6 7 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.55%) EMIR
8 2 (0.55%) NIST
9 1 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.27%) GDPR
9 1 (0.27%) GMP
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (4.38%) Docker
2 13 (3.56%) Firmware
3 4 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (3.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.10%) Kubeflow
2 4 (1.10%) Terraform
3 2 (0.55%) Ansible
3 2 (0.55%) logstash
3 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.55%) Puppet
4 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (10.41%) Google
2 22 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.93%) IBM
4 11 (3.01%) Databricks
5 8 (2.19%) Screaming Frog
6 7 (1.92%) Altera
6 7 (1.92%) YouTube
7 6 (1.64%) Oracle
8 5 (1.37%) Adobe
8 5 (1.37%) Ahrefs
8 5 (1.37%) BT
9 4 (1.10%) Xilinx
10 3 (0.82%) Facebook
10 3 (0.82%) Instagram
10 3 (0.82%) TikTok
11 2 (0.55%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.55%) SAP
12 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.27%) Charles River