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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 159 181
Rank change year-on-year -158 +22 -20
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 429 746 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 2.00% 1.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 5.05% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 269 354 685
10th Percentile - £43,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £114,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -13.33%

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 22,455 14,761 29,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.10% 39.57% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,668 8,256 20,818
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +9.09% -15.38%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -43 193 £95,000 -7.32% 101
South East -128 76 £60,000 -3.23% 86
North of England -62 59 £37,500 -47.91% 40
South West -88 36 £50,000 -28.57% 37
North West -28 31 £41,250 -53.47% 18
East of England -100 31 £37,500 -50.66% 38
Midlands -50 30 £50,000 -16.67% 24
Yorkshire -47 20 £37,500 -28.57% 11
West Midlands -25 19 £37,500 -37.50% 11
East Midlands -67 10 £75,000 +25.00% 13
North East -30 8 £37,500 -63.86% 11
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 48 (11.19%) Jupyter
2 9 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.10%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.10%) CMS
3 5 (1.17%) IIS
4 2 (0.47%) Confluence
4 2 (0.47%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (11.19%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.40%) Simulink
3 3 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.70%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.70%) Final Cut Pro
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.47%) CATIA
4 2 (0.47%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 111 (25.87%) AWS
2 52 (12.12%) Cloud Computing
3 51 (11.89%) Azure
4 40 (9.32%) GCP
5 16 (3.73%) GitHub
6 15 (3.50%) Google Analytics
7 13 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.40%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.17%) Prefect
10 5 (1.17%) Slack
11 4 (0.93%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.93%) SaaS
12 3 (0.70%) Canva
12 3 (0.70%) Firebase
12 3 (0.70%) Serverless
13 2 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.47%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.47%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.26%) Broadband
1 14 (3.26%) Multicast
2 6 (1.40%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.17%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.93%) Network Security
4 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.70%) Internet
5 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.23%) IPsec
6 1 (0.23%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.23%) VPN
6 1 (0.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.76%) BigQuery
2 26 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (4.90%) Metadata
4 14 (3.26%) Big Data
5 13 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.56%) Power BI
7 10 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.33%) Tableau
8 6 (1.40%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.93%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.47%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.23%) MySQL
12 1 (0.23%) Parquet
12 1 (0.23%) Presto
12 1 (0.23%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 59 (13.75%) Visual Studio Code
2 42 (9.79%) Git
3 22 (5.13%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (3.73%) JIRA
5 11 (2.56%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 135 (31.47%) Finance
2 71 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (14.92%) Retail
4 60 (13.99%) Social Skills
5 55 (12.82%) Manufacturing
6 45 (10.49%) Marketing
7 30 (6.99%) Front Office
8 22 (5.13%) Electronics
8 22 (5.13%) Games
9 19 (4.43%) Banking
10 13 (3.03%) Automotive
11 10 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.10%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.10%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.86%) Legal
13 8 (1.86%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.40%) Law
15 5 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (23.08%) Software Engineer
2 90 (20.98%) Senior
3 79 (18.41%) Developer
4 46 (10.72%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (10.72%) Programmer
5 45 (10.49%) Trainee
5 45 (10.49%) Trainee Programmer
6 42 (9.79%) Python Developer
7 38 (8.86%) Senior Developer
8 35 (8.16%) C++ Software Engineer
9 34 (7.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (4.90%) Quantitative Developer
10 21 (4.90%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (4.66%) Python Engineer
11 20 (4.66%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.43%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.43%) Linux Developer
12 19 (4.43%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (4.43%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (4.43%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (17.25%) Pandas
2 73 (17.02%) NumPy
3 56 (13.05%) scikit-learn
4 51 (11.89%) Matplotlib
5 50 (11.66%) Streamlit
6 49 (11.42%) Hugging Face
7 41 (9.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 31 (7.23%) Django
9 29 (6.76%) TensorFlow
10 28 (6.53%) PyTorch
11 22 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (3.26%) .NET
12 14 (3.26%) HTML
12 14 (3.26%) pytest
12 14 (3.26%) RESTful
13 11 (2.56%) REST
14 10 (2.33%) React
15 9 (2.10%) CSS
16 8 (1.86%) OpenCV
17 6 (1.40%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 82 (19.11%) Data Structures
2 48 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.86%) Equities
4 27 (6.29%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (5.83%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.13%) FPGA
6 22 (5.13%) Hedge funds
7 17 (3.96%) Derivative
7 17 (3.96%) Product Ownership
8 15 (3.50%) PCIe
8 15 (3.50%) VHDL
9 14 (3.26%) Fixed Income
10 12 (2.80%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.80%) Social Media
10 12 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
11 11 (2.56%) NVMe
12 10 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
13 7 (1.63%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.35%) Linux
2 7 (1.63%) Windows
3 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.70%) Android
5 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.47%) Unix
7 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (39.16%) Software Engineering
2 137 (31.93%) Machine Learning
3 133 (31.00%) AI
3 133 (31.00%) Computer Science
4 90 (20.98%) OOP
5 82 (19.11%) OO
6 79 (18.41%) Visualisation
7 75 (17.48%) Analytics
8 71 (16.55%) Data Science
9 70 (16.32%) Workflow
10 65 (15.15%) LLM
11 63 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
12 59 (13.75%) Agile
13 56 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (12.35%) Neural Network
15 51 (11.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 50 (11.66%) Customer Service
16 50 (11.66%) Data Privacy
17 49 (11.42%) Mathematics
17 49 (11.42%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 270 (62.94%) Python
2 118 (27.51%) C++
3 53 (12.35%) SQL
4 36 (8.39%) C
4 36 (8.39%) C#
5 20 (4.66%) Java
6 14 (3.26%) R
7 13 (3.03%) Assembly Language
7 13 (3.03%) Go
7 13 (3.03%) Rust
8 11 (2.56%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.63%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.63%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.17%) Scala
11 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.70%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.70%) VBA
12 3 (0.70%) VC++
13 2 (0.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 109 (25.41%) Degree
2 52 (12.12%) AWS Certification
3 48 (11.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (8.39%) Master's Degree
6 28 (6.53%) PhD
7 23 (5.36%) Security Cleared
8 11 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.33%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.17%) MBA
11 4 (0.93%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.23%) CEH
13 1 (0.23%) CISM
13 1 (0.23%) CISSP
13 1 (0.23%) GIAC
13 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.90%) QA
2 17 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.40%) GDPR
5 5 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.70%) EMIR
7 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (5.13%) Firmware
2 19 (4.43%) Docker
3 11 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.40%) Terraform
3 5 (1.17%) Kubeflow
3 5 (1.17%) SCCM
3 5 (1.17%) SCOM
3 5 (1.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 55 (12.82%) Google
3 16 (3.73%) IBM
4 15 (3.50%) Altera
5 13 (3.03%) Databricks
6 12 (2.80%) Xilinx
7 11 (2.56%) Screaming Frog
8 7 (1.63%) YouTube
9 6 (1.40%) Botify
10 5 (1.17%) Ahrefs
10 5 (1.17%) BT
10 5 (1.17%) Dell
10 5 (1.17%) HP
10 5 (1.17%) McAfee
10 5 (1.17%) VMware
11 4 (0.93%) Oracle
12 3 (0.70%) Adobe
12 3 (0.70%) Facebook
12 3 (0.70%) Instagram
12 3 (0.70%) Rockwell