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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 241 198
Rank change year-on-year -86 -43 +82
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 540 545 962
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.26% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.01% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 360 239 392
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +12.96% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £111,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.34%

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 25,074 18,118 22,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.97% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 16,493 9,194 12,496
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.56% -4.80%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -98 190 £85,000 -21.84% 665
South East -39 130 £67,500 +8.87% 118
East of England +6 103 £62,500 +13.64% 100
North of England -36 48 £52,000 +15.56% 65
South West -63 44 £60,000 +20.91% 73
Midlands -32 27 £67,500 +17.39% 45
West Midlands -24 22 £67,500 +17.39% 24
Yorkshire -32 21 £32,500 -7.14% 18
North West -10 14 £60,000 +26.32% 34
North East -52 13 £60,000 -47.83% 13
East Midlands -37 4 £62,500 +131.48% 21
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 7 (1.30%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.30%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.11%) SAS
3 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.19%) R Markdown
5 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.41%) Simulink
2 7 (1.30%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) CATIA
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (14.26%) AWS
2 51 (9.44%) Azure
3 25 (4.63%) GCP
4 15 (2.78%) Google Analytics
5 13 (2.41%) GitHub
5 13 (2.41%) Google Ads
5 13 (2.41%) SaaS
6 11 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.11%) Slack
10 5 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (0.93%) Prefect
10 5 (0.93%) Vertex AI
10 5 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.74%) Serverless
12 3 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.52%) Broadband
2 12 (2.22%) Multicast
3 8 (1.48%) LTE
4 7 (1.30%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.30%) 5G
4 7 (1.30%) GSM
4 7 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.30%) RANAP
4 7 (1.30%) SS7
4 7 (1.30%) UMTS
4 7 (1.30%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.74%) Internet
5 4 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.74%) Wireless
6 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.37%) Firewall
8 1 (0.19%) IPsec
8 1 (0.19%) RS-422
8 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.52%) Metadata
1 19 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (3.15%) Big Data
3 10 (1.85%) BigQuery
3 10 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.48%) Power BI
6 6 (1.11%) GIS
7 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.74%) MySQL
8 4 (0.74%) Redis
8 4 (0.74%) Tableau
9 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.56%) KDB
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 72 (13.33%) Git
2 24 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.78%) JIRA
5 14 (2.59%) GitLab
6 10 (1.85%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.30%) GCC
7 7 (1.30%) GDB
8 4 (0.74%) CMake
9 3 (0.56%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.37%) MLflow
10 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
General
1 99 (18.33%) Finance
2 69 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 62 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.30%) Marketing
6 30 (5.56%) Banking
7 27 (5.00%) Electronics
8 24 (4.44%) Retail
9 20 (3.70%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.78%) Front Office
11 14 (2.59%) Games
11 14 (2.59%) Law
12 13 (2.41%) Advertising
12 13 (2.41%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.85%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.67%) Automotive
15 9 (1.67%) Legal
16 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (29.63%) Software Engineer
2 123 (22.78%) Senior
3 97 (17.96%) Developer
4 48 (8.89%) Lead
5 47 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 40 (7.41%) Python Developer
7 37 (6.85%) Embedded Engineer
8 34 (6.30%) C++ Software Engineer
9 33 (6.11%) Senior Developer
10 32 (5.93%) Data Scientist
11 27 (5.00%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) FPGA Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (3.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 16 (2.96%) Quantitative Developer
13 16 (2.96%) SEO Specialist
14 15 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.59%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
16 13 (2.41%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.74%) PyTorch
2 29 (5.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 27 (5.00%) NumPy
3 27 (5.00%) Pandas
4 25 (4.63%) React
4 25 (4.63%) TensorFlow
5 23 (4.26%) HTML
6 21 (3.89%) .NET
7 19 (3.52%) CSS
8 16 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (2.59%) REST
10 13 (2.41%) STL
11 12 (2.22%) Django
11 12 (2.22%) pytest
11 12 (2.22%) Terraform
12 11 (2.04%) Google JAX
12 11 (2.04%) JAX
12 11 (2.04%) Kafka
13 10 (1.85%) Streamlit
13 10 (1.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 82 (15.19%) Data Structures
2 37 (6.85%) Embedded Systems
3 35 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (5.74%) Equities
5 26 (4.81%) FPGA
5 26 (4.81%) Robotics
6 19 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.52%) VHDL
7 17 (3.15%) Hedge funds
8 16 (2.96%) PCIe
9 13 (2.41%) Derivative
9 13 (2.41%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (1.85%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (1.85%) Verilog
11 9 (1.67%) NVMe
12 8 (1.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.30%) Linux
2 14 (2.59%) Windows
3 10 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (46.85%) Software Engineering
2 151 (27.96%) AI
3 145 (26.85%) Computer Science
4 134 (24.81%) Machine Learning
5 102 (18.89%) Agile
6 91 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (16.67%) Data Science
8 72 (13.33%) Analytics
9 70 (12.96%) Mathematics
10 66 (12.22%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 57 (10.56%) Test Automation
13 56 (10.37%) Mentoring
14 54 (10.00%) Signal Processing
15 51 (9.44%) Decision-Making
16 48 (8.89%) Deep Learning
16 48 (8.89%) Validation
17 46 (8.52%) SDLC
18 45 (8.33%) Low Latency
18 45 (8.33%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 295 (54.63%) Python
2 150 (27.78%) C++
3 55 (10.19%) C
3 55 (10.19%) C#
4 44 (8.15%) SQL
5 39 (7.22%) Java
6 25 (4.63%) MATLAB
6 25 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 24 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 20 (3.70%) Rust
9 15 (2.78%) Embedded C++
9 15 (2.78%) Go
10 12 (2.22%) Embedded C
11 11 (2.04%) Assembly Language
12 9 (1.67%) R
13 3 (0.56%) Fortran
13 3 (0.56%) Julia
13 3 (0.56%) VBA
14 2 (0.37%) Bash
14 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 151 (27.96%) Degree
2 70 (12.96%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (6.48%) Master's Degree
4 35 (6.48%) SC Cleared
5 26 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 26 (4.81%) PhD
6 16 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) HND
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.67%) QA
2 12 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.04%) GDPR
4 9 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (1.11%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.11%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.11%) MISRA
6 6 (1.11%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (9.44%) Docker
2 41 (7.59%) Firmware
3 21 (3.89%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.11%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.93%) SCCM
3 5 (0.93%) SCOM
3 5 (0.93%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 38 (7.04%) Google
2 16 (2.96%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.22%) Screaming Frog
4 10 (1.85%) IBM
4 10 (1.85%) Xilinx
5 9 (1.67%) Altera
5 9 (1.67%) Databricks
6 7 (1.30%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.11%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.93%) Dell
8 5 (0.93%) HP
8 5 (0.93%) McAfee
8 5 (0.93%) TikTok
8 5 (0.93%) VMware
9 4 (0.74%) Foundry
9 4 (0.74%) Sitebulb
10 3 (0.56%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
12 1 (0.19%) YouTube