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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 240 195
Rank change year-on-year -68 -45 +74
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 560 586 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.33% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 3.17% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 371 256 412
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £110,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £99,622
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +1.56% -11.72%

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 24,399 18,474 23,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.72% 42.01% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15,987 9,386 14,274
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,875 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -83 210 £90,000 -18.18% 65
South East -56 124 £68,750 +10.89% 60
East of England +3 94 £65,000 +18.18% 42
North of England -28 61 £41,982 -16.04% 39
South West -59 46 £56,000 +22.07% 27
Midlands -22 27 £37,500 -37.50% 23
Yorkshire -11 26 £37,500 +7.14% 15
West Midlands -8 21 £37,500 -37.50% 11
North West -22 20 £60,000 +20.00% 14
North East -50 15 £52,000 -54.78% 11
East Midlands -25 5 £47,500 +75.93% 12
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 26 (4.64%) Jupyter
2 11 (1.96%) CMS
3 7 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.07%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (4.64%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.14%) Simulink
3 3 (0.54%) Blender
3 3 (0.54%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) CATIA
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (1.79%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 103 (18.39%) AWS
2 56 (10.00%) Azure
3 29 (5.18%) GCP
4 27 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (2.68%) Google Analytics
5 15 (2.68%) SaaS
6 14 (2.50%) GitHub
7 13 (2.32%) Google Ads
8 10 (1.79%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.25%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.07%) Slack
12 5 (0.89%) Prefect
12 5 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.71%) Vertex AI
14 3 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.57%) Broadband
2 13 (2.32%) Multicast
3 8 (1.43%) LTE
4 7 (1.25%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.25%) 5G
4 7 (1.25%) GSM
4 7 (1.25%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.25%) RANAP
4 7 (1.25%) SS7
4 7 (1.25%) UMTS
4 7 (1.25%) Wireshark
5 6 (1.07%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.71%) Internet
6 4 (0.71%) Wireless
7 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.36%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) RS-422
9 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.93%) Metadata
2 20 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 13 (2.32%) Big Data
4 13 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.43%) Power BI
7 7 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.07%) GIS
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.71%) MySQL
10 4 (0.71%) Redis
10 4 (0.71%) Tableau
11 3 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.54%) KDB
12 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 70 (12.50%) Git
2 43 (7.68%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.39%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.04%) JIRA
5 14 (2.50%) GitLab
6 10 (1.79%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.25%) GCC
7 7 (1.25%) GDB
8 4 (0.71%) CMake
9 3 (0.54%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.36%) MLflow
10 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 130 (23.21%) Finance
2 73 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (12.68%) Social Skills
4 49 (8.75%) Retail
5 41 (7.32%) Marketing
6 38 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (5.18%) Banking
7 29 (5.18%) Manufacturing
8 27 (4.82%) Electronics
9 21 (3.75%) Games
10 20 (3.57%) Aerospace
11 19 (3.39%) Front Office
12 15 (2.68%) Legal
13 14 (2.50%) Advertising
14 13 (2.32%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.32%) Law
15 11 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.79%) Automotive
17 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
18 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (28.21%) Software Engineer
2 132 (23.57%) Senior
3 108 (19.29%) Developer
4 48 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 45 (8.04%) Python Developer
6 42 (7.50%) Lead
7 40 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 39 (6.96%) Embedded Engineer
9 37 (6.61%) C++ Software Engineer
10 31 (5.54%) Data Scientist
11 26 (4.64%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 21 (3.75%) FPGA Engineer
12 21 (3.75%) Programmer
13 20 (3.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 20 (3.57%) Trainee
13 20 (3.57%) Trainee Programmer
14 19 (3.39%) Python Software Engineer
14 19 (3.39%) Quantitative Developer
14 19 (3.39%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.39%) NumPy
1 47 (8.39%) Pandas
2 33 (5.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 29 (5.18%) PyTorch
3 29 (5.18%) Streamlit
4 28 (5.00%) scikit-learn
5 26 (4.64%) React
6 25 (4.46%) Hugging Face
7 24 (4.29%) Matplotlib
7 24 (4.29%) TensorFlow
8 23 (4.11%) HTML
9 19 (3.39%) CSS
10 18 (3.21%) .NET
11 17 (3.04%) FIX Protocol
12 16 (2.86%) Django
13 15 (2.68%) REST
14 13 (2.32%) pytest
15 11 (1.96%) Kafka
16 10 (1.79%) Yocto
17 9 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.71%) Data Structures
2 43 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.61%) Embedded Systems
4 35 (6.25%) Equities
5 29 (5.18%) FPGA
6 21 (3.75%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.75%) Robotics
6 21 (3.75%) VHDL
7 20 (3.57%) Hedge funds
8 19 (3.39%) Management Information System
9 17 (3.04%) PCIe
10 14 (2.50%) Derivative
10 14 (2.50%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (2.14%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.79%) NVMe
12 10 (1.79%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.79%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.79%) Linux
2 14 (2.50%) Windows
3 10 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
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%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.54%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (45.18%) Software Engineering
2 157 (28.04%) AI
3 151 (26.96%) Computer Science
4 135 (24.11%) Machine Learning
5 103 (18.39%) Agile
6 100 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (16.61%) Data Science
8 76 (13.57%) Analytics
9 67 (11.96%) OOP
10 66 (11.79%) CI/CD
10 66 (11.79%) Mathematics
11 64 (11.43%) OO
12 59 (10.54%) Test Automation
13 57 (10.18%) Signal Processing
14 56 (10.00%) Visualisation
15 55 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (9.64%) Mentoring
17 51 (9.11%) SDLC
18 48 (8.57%) Low Latency
19 47 (8.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 319 (56.96%) Python
2 151 (26.96%) C++
3 58 (10.36%) C
4 51 (9.11%) C#
5 41 (7.32%) SQL
6 34 (6.07%) Java
7 26 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.29%) MATLAB
9 22 (3.93%) JavaScript
9 22 (3.93%) Rust
10 16 (2.86%) Embedded C++
11 15 (2.68%) Go
12 13 (2.32%) Embedded C
13 12 (2.14%) Assembly Language
14 10 (1.79%) R
15 4 (0.71%) Bash
15 4 (0.71%) VBA
16 3 (0.54%) Fortran
16 3 (0.54%) Julia
17 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (26.43%) Degree
2 66 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (6.07%) Master's Degree
5 33 (5.89%) SC Cleared
6 32 (5.71%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.82%) DV Cleared
8 23 (4.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 23 (4.11%) PhD
9 16 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.54%) QA
2 12 (2.14%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.14%) GDPR
3 9 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.07%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.07%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.07%) MISRA
5 6 (1.07%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.18%) EMIR
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (8.93%) Docker
2 43 (7.68%) Firmware
3 22 (3.93%) 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 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.50%) Terraform
3 6 (1.07%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.89%) SCCM
4 5 (0.89%) SCOM
4 5 (0.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 49 (8.75%) Google
2 36 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.14%) Screaming Frog
4 11 (1.96%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.79%) Altera
5 10 (1.79%) IBM
6 9 (1.61%) Databricks
7 6 (1.07%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.07%) Botify
8 5 (0.89%) Dell
8 5 (0.89%) HP
8 5 (0.89%) McAfee
8 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.89%) VMware
9 4 (0.71%) Foundry
9 4 (0.71%) TikTok
10 3 (0.54%) Rockwell
10 3 (0.54%) Sitebulb
11 2 (0.36%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.36%) MicroStrategy