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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 254 209
Rank change year-on-year -82 -45 +69
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 550 518 877
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.20% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 2.86% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 346 232 379
10th Percentile £35,375 £37,424 £39,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -10.34%
75th Percentile £81,250 £106,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £139,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £66,250 £70,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.16% +8.62% -7.14%

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 27,182 18,127 21,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.14% 41.94% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,633 9,221 10,884
10th Percentile £31,069 £28,250 £32,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £56,038 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% -8.33% -4.00%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -132 164 £82,500 -25.00% 1,046
South East -8 150 £70,000 +11.87% 199
East of England +12 119 £65,000 +18.18% 171
North of England -38 46 £51,000 +38.78% 142
South West -68 41 £61,250 +36.05% 118
Midlands -36 29 £67,500 +3.85% 102
Yorkshire -25 22 £32,500 -7.14% 39
West Midlands -32 17 £67,500 +22.73% 61
East Midlands -32 12 £81,250 +15.33% 41
North West -36 12 £60,000 +33.33% 80
North East -51 12 £60,000 -47.83% 26
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 8 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.09%) SAS
3 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.18%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (4.18%) Simulink
2 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.73%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.64%) AWS
2 46 (8.36%) Azure
3 21 (3.82%) GCP
4 16 (2.91%) GitHub
5 15 (2.73%) Google Ads
5 15 (2.73%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.18%) SaaS
7 10 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.45%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.27%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.91%) Vertex AI
10 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.73%) Serverless
11 4 (0.73%) Slack
12 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.36%) Multicast
1 13 (2.36%) Wireless
2 11 (2.00%) Broadband
2 11 (2.00%) LTE
3 9 (1.64%) 5G
4 7 (1.27%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.27%) GSM
4 7 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.27%) RANAP
4 7 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.27%) SS7
4 7 (1.27%) UMTS
4 7 (1.27%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.55%) Internet
5 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.36%) Firewall
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.45%) Big Data
1 19 (3.45%) Metadata
2 16 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.45%) Power BI
4 6 (1.09%) GIS
5 5 (0.91%) MySQL
5 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 4 (0.73%) KDB
6 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.73%) Redis
6 4 (0.73%) Tableau
7 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 68 (12.36%) Git
2 19 (3.45%) Rational DOORS
2 19 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
3 16 (2.91%) JIRA
4 13 (2.36%) GitLab
5 10 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.27%) GCC
6 7 (1.27%) GDB
7 5 (0.91%) MLflow
7 5 (0.91%) PetaLinux
8 4 (0.73%) CMake
9 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) QUnit
11 1 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 95 (17.27%) Finance
2 90 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.55%) Banking
5 36 (6.55%) Marketing
6 29 (5.27%) Electronics
7 28 (5.09%) Aerospace
8 26 (4.73%) Retail
9 16 (2.91%) Advertising
10 14 (2.55%) Law
11 13 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.36%) Front Office
11 13 (2.36%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.82%) Legal
13 9 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.45%) Automotive
14 8 (1.45%) Games
14 8 (1.45%) Military
15 7 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 149 (27.09%) Software Engineer
2 120 (21.82%) Senior
3 77 (14.00%) Developer
4 52 (9.45%) Lead
5 44 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 41 (7.45%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (6.18%) Data Scientist
8 33 (6.00%) C++ Software Engineer
9 27 (4.91%) FPGA Engineer
9 27 (4.91%) Python Engineer
10 26 (4.73%) Python Developer
10 26 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 21 (3.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (3.82%) Python Software Engineer
11 21 (3.82%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 18 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
12 18 (3.27%) SEO Specialist
13 17 (3.09%) Architect
14 16 (2.91%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (2.73%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.09%) PyTorch
2 27 (4.91%) HTML
2 27 (4.91%) React
3 26 (4.73%) CSS
4 25 (4.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 24 (4.36%) .NET
6 23 (4.18%) TensorFlow
7 17 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
8 15 (2.73%) NumPy
8 15 (2.73%) Pandas
8 15 (2.73%) STL
9 14 (2.55%) Yocto
10 13 (2.36%) pytest
11 11 (2.00%) Kafka
11 11 (2.00%) Terraform
12 9 (1.64%) Node.js
13 8 (1.45%) ASP.NET
13 8 (1.45%) Google JAX
13 8 (1.45%) JAX
13 8 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.27%) Data Structures
2 45 (8.18%) Embedded Systems
2 45 (8.18%) FPGA
3 36 (6.55%) Robotics
4 29 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.27%) Equities
5 25 (4.55%) VHDL
6 22 (4.00%) PCIe
7 16 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.73%) Fixed Income
9 14 (2.55%) Derivative
9 14 (2.55%) Verilog
10 13 (2.36%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.18%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.82%) ASIC
12 10 (1.82%) NVMe
12 10 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.64%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.64%) Device Driver
14 8 (1.45%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.00%) Linux
2 18 (3.27%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (2.91%) Windows
4 5 (0.91%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.55%) Unix
6 3 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (43.09%) Software Engineering
2 168 (30.55%) AI
3 146 (26.55%) Computer Science
4 142 (25.82%) Machine Learning
5 105 (19.09%) Agile
6 99 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (16.73%) Data Science
8 84 (15.27%) Mathematics
9 75 (13.64%) Analytics
10 69 (12.55%) CI/CD
11 56 (10.18%) Signal Processing
12 53 (9.64%) Decision-Making
13 52 (9.45%) Mentoring
14 49 (8.91%) Test Automation
15 48 (8.73%) Validation
16 47 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (8.18%) Roadmaps
18 41 (7.45%) Low Latency
19 40 (7.27%) Deep Learning
19 40 (7.27%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 281 (51.09%) Python
2 165 (30.00%) C++
3 67 (12.18%) C
4 59 (10.73%) C#
5 48 (8.73%) MATLAB
6 46 (8.36%) SQL
7 41 (7.45%) Java
8 28 (5.09%) JavaScript
9 25 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 22 (4.00%) Embedded C++
11 19 (3.45%) Embedded C
11 19 (3.45%) Rust
12 11 (2.00%) Go
13 10 (1.82%) Assembly Language
14 9 (1.64%) R
15 5 (0.91%) SystemVerilog
16 4 (0.73%) Fortran
17 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.55%) VBA
18 2 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 164 (29.82%) Degree
2 87 (15.82%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 44 (8.00%) Master's Degree
6 31 (5.64%) PhD
7 26 (4.73%) DV Cleared
8 15 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.82%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.55%) CISSP
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.18%) QA
2 13 (2.36%) GDPR
3 12 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.00%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (1.09%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.09%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.09%) MISRA
6 6 (1.09%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.55%) NIST
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (8.55%) Docker
2 41 (7.45%) Firmware
3 22 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Ceph
7 1 (0.18%) Lustre
7 1 (0.18%) NFS
7 1 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 30 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.73%) Kubeflow
2 4 (0.73%) SCCM
2 4 (0.73%) SCOM
2 4 (0.73%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 32 (5.82%) Google
2 13 (2.36%) Xilinx
3 12 (2.18%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.00%) Altera
5 9 (1.64%) IBM
5 9 (1.64%) Screaming Frog
6 8 (1.45%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.09%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.09%) Databricks
7 6 (1.09%) Thales
8 5 (0.91%) TikTok
9 4 (0.73%) Dell
9 4 (0.73%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) HP
9 4 (0.73%) Intel
9 4 (0.73%) McAfee
9 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
9 4 (0.73%) VMware
10 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.36%) MathWorks