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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 218 187
Rank change year-on-year -74 -31 +8
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 564 651 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.50% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.45% 3.58% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 382 283 493
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,593 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.96%
75th Percentile £85,000 £105,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 22,987 18,192 25,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.88% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,162 9,180 16,506
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,777
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,511 £57,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +3.60% -14.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -14.06%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -72 209 £93,750 -14.77% 213
South East -48 127 £70,000 +12.90% 62
East of England -3 83 £65,000 +18.18% 51
North of England -13 71 £37,500 -48.28% 44
South West -90 46 £55,000 +11.68% 37
Midlands -31 31 £37,500 -37.50% 20
Yorkshire -19 29 £37,500 -37.50% 9
North West -9 25 £37,500 -56.01% 22
West Midlands -13 24 £37,500 -37.50% 7
North East -35 17 £52,000 -54.78% 15
East Midlands -36 6 £57,500 +112.96% 13
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 50 (8.87%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.60%) CMS
3 7 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.06%) SAS
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 50 (8.87%) Chatbot
2 11 (1.95%) Simulink
3 3 (0.53%) Blender
3 3 (0.53%) Maya
4 2 (0.35%) CATIA
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.35%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (1.95%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 124 (21.99%) AWS
2 52 (9.22%) Azure
2 52 (9.22%) Cloud Computing
3 31 (5.50%) GCP
4 21 (3.72%) Google Analytics
5 16 (2.84%) GitHub
6 15 (2.66%) SaaS
7 11 (1.95%) Google Ads
8 8 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.24%) Slack
10 6 (1.06%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.89%) Prefect
11 5 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.71%) Serverless
12 4 (0.71%) Vertex AI
13 3 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.72%) Broadband
2 15 (2.66%) Multicast
3 7 (1.24%) 3GPP
3 7 (1.24%) GSM
3 7 (1.24%) LTE
3 7 (1.24%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (1.24%) RANAP
3 7 (1.24%) SS7
3 7 (1.24%) UMTS
3 7 (1.24%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.06%) 5G
5 5 (0.89%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.71%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.71%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.53%) Wireless
8 2 (0.35%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
9 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (4.61%) Metadata
2 21 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.84%) BigQuery
4 15 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (2.30%) Big Data
6 11 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.06%) GIS
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.71%) MySQL
10 4 (0.71%) Power BI
10 4 (0.71%) Redis
11 3 (0.53%) Tableau
12 2 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.35%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.35%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 72 (12.77%) Git
2 70 (12.41%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.37%) JIRA
4 18 (3.19%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (2.84%) GitLab
6 10 (1.77%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.24%) GCC
7 7 (1.24%) GDB
8 3 (0.53%) CMake
8 3 (0.53%) MLflow
8 3 (0.53%) PetaLinux
8 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.35%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 150 (26.60%) Finance
2 73 (12.94%) Social Skills
3 72 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (12.77%) Retail
4 54 (9.57%) Manufacturing
5 38 (6.74%) Marketing
6 27 (4.79%) Banking
6 27 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.43%) Electronics
8 20 (3.55%) Front Office
9 18 (3.19%) Games
10 17 (3.01%) Automotive
11 16 (2.84%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.48%) Advertising
12 14 (2.48%) Legal
13 11 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.60%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.60%) Law
15 7 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 151 (26.77%) Software Engineer
2 133 (23.58%) Senior
3 108 (19.15%) Developer
4 49 (8.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 48 (8.51%) Python Developer
6 46 (8.16%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (8.16%) Programmer
7 45 (7.98%) Trainee
7 45 (7.98%) Trainee Programmer
8 44 (7.80%) Senior Developer
9 42 (7.45%) Lead
10 41 (7.27%) C++ Software Engineer
11 37 (6.56%) Embedded Engineer
12 29 (5.14%) Data Scientist
13 28 (4.96%) Python Engineer
14 22 (3.90%) FPGA Engineer
14 22 (3.90%) Python Software Engineer
15 20 (3.55%) Quantitative Developer
15 20 (3.55%) Senior Python Developer
16 19 (3.37%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.59%) NumPy
1 71 (12.59%) Pandas
2 54 (9.57%) Streamlit
3 53 (9.40%) scikit-learn
4 50 (8.87%) Hugging Face
5 49 (8.69%) Matplotlib
6 38 (6.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 27 (4.79%) PyTorch
8 24 (4.26%) TensorFlow
9 23 (4.08%) React
10 22 (3.90%) HTML
11 18 (3.19%) CSS
11 18 (3.19%) Django
12 17 (3.01%) FIX Protocol
13 16 (2.84%) .NET
14 15 (2.66%) pytest
14 15 (2.66%) REST
15 9 (1.60%) Flask
15 9 (1.60%) Node.js
15 9 (1.60%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.60%) Data Structures
2 48 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.74%) Equities
4 37 (6.56%) Embedded Systems
5 30 (5.32%) FPGA
6 23 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.90%) Hedge funds
8 21 (3.72%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.72%) VHDL
9 19 (3.37%) PCIe
10 17 (3.01%) Robotics
11 16 (2.84%) Derivative
11 16 (2.84%) Fixed Income
11 16 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (2.66%) Video\Live Streaming
13 11 (1.95%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.95%) NVMe
14 10 (1.77%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
16 8 (1.42%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 70 (12.41%) Linux
2 11 (1.95%) Windows
3 9 (1.60%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.89%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.53%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (43.44%) Software Engineering
2 170 (30.14%) AI
3 149 (26.42%) Computer Science
3 149 (26.42%) Machine Learning
4 98 (17.38%) Agile
5 96 (17.02%) OOP
6 91 (16.13%) OO
7 90 (15.96%) Data Science
7 90 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 79 (14.01%) Visualisation
9 77 (13.65%) Analytics
10 67 (11.88%) Workflow
11 65 (11.52%) CI/CD
12 64 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (10.46%) Signal Processing
14 58 (10.28%) LLM
15 57 (10.11%) Test Automation
16 53 (9.40%) Mathematics
17 52 (9.22%) Low Latency
17 52 (9.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 333 (59.04%) Python
2 156 (27.66%) C++
3 58 (10.28%) C
4 50 (8.87%) C#
5 40 (7.09%) SQL
6 27 (4.79%) Java
7 25 (4.43%) Rust
8 24 (4.26%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.72%) MATLAB
10 18 (3.19%) JavaScript
11 15 (2.66%) Embedded C++
12 13 (2.30%) Assembly Language
12 13 (2.30%) Embedded C
12 13 (2.30%) Go
13 7 (1.24%) R
14 4 (0.71%) Julia
14 4 (0.71%) VBA
15 3 (0.53%) Bash
16 2 (0.35%) Fortran
16 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (23.23%) Degree
2 57 (10.11%) AWS Certification
3 54 (9.57%) Security Cleared
4 48 (8.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 47 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (6.03%) Master's Degree
7 27 (4.79%) SC Cleared
8 21 (3.72%) DV Cleared
9 17 (3.01%) PhD
10 12 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.67%) QA
2 11 (1.95%) GDPR
3 8 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 7 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.06%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.06%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.06%) MISRA
5 6 (1.06%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.18%) EMIR
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 48 (8.51%) Docker
2 44 (7.80%) Firmware
3 22 (3.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
5 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (4.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.30%) Terraform
3 7 (1.24%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.89%) SCCM
4 5 (0.89%) SCOM
4 5 (0.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 60 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 53 (9.40%) Google
3 13 (2.30%) Altera
4 12 (2.13%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.77%) Databricks
5 10 (1.77%) IBM
5 10 (1.77%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (1.06%) Botify
7 5 (0.89%) Dell
7 5 (0.89%) HP
7 5 (0.89%) McAfee
7 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 5 (0.89%) VMware
8 4 (0.71%) Ahrefs
8 4 (0.71%) TikTok
9 3 (0.53%) Foundry
9 3 (0.53%) Rockwell
10 1 (0.18%) Intel
10 1 (0.18%) MathWorks
10 1 (0.18%) MicroStrategy