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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 211 176
Rank change year-on-year -84 -35 +15
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 538 644 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.60% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 3.72% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 375 259 689
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -15.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,001 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,400 £125,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%

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 21,550 17,305 31,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.52% 43.10% 33.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,221 8,418 21,121
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,572
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -70 206 £95,000 -13.64% 108
South East -52 120 £70,000 +12.90% 60
East of England -6 69 £65,000 +18.18% 41
North of England -15 68 £37,500 -56.01% 30
South West -91 45 £57,500 +15.00% 36
Midlands -13 33 £37,500 -37.50% 22
North West -7 31 £37,500 -56.88% 14
West Midlands -5 26 £37,500 -37.50% 12
Yorkshire -17 21 £37,500 -47.91% 7
North East -33 16 £52,000 -54.78% 11
East Midlands -36 6 £57,500 +32.18% 10
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 (9.29%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.49%) CMS
3 7 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.12%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 50 (9.29%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.42%) Simulink
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) CATIA
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 123 (22.86%) AWS
2 57 (10.59%) Azure
3 55 (10.22%) Cloud Computing
4 35 (6.51%) GCP
5 19 (3.53%) GitHub
6 18 (3.35%) Google Analytics
7 15 (2.79%) SaaS
8 9 (1.67%) Slack
9 8 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.49%) Google Ads
10 7 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.30%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (0.93%) Prefect
11 5 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.74%) Serverless
13 3 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.28%) Broadband
2 18 (3.35%) Multicast
3 6 (1.12%) 5G
3 6 (1.12%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.74%) Internet
5 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.37%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.37%) Firewall
6 2 (0.37%) GSM
6 2 (0.37%) LTE
6 2 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.37%) RANAP
6 2 (0.37%) SS7
6 2 (0.37%) UMTS
6 2 (0.37%) Wireless
6 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) RS-422
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.09%) BigQuery
1 22 (4.09%) Metadata
2 21 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.04%) Big Data
4 11 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.12%) GIS
7 5 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (0.93%) Power BI
8 4 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.74%) MySQL
8 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.74%) Redis
9 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.37%) Tableau
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.19%) Trino
Development Applications
1 70 (13.01%) Visual Studio Code
2 69 (12.83%) Git
3 22 (4.09%) JIRA
4 19 (3.53%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (3.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.56%) PetaLinux
7 2 (0.37%) GCC
7 2 (0.37%) GDB
7 2 (0.37%) MLflow
7 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) CMake
8 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (25.46%) Finance
2 74 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (12.64%) Social Skills
4 66 (12.27%) Retail
5 56 (10.41%) Manufacturing
6 30 (5.58%) Marketing
7 27 (5.02%) Electronics
8 23 (4.28%) Banking
9 21 (3.90%) Front Office
10 20 (3.72%) Automotive
10 20 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.97%) Aerospace
12 15 (2.79%) Games
13 12 (2.23%) Advertising
14 8 (1.49%) Legal
15 6 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.56%) French Language
Job Titles
1 146 (27.14%) Software Engineer
2 130 (24.16%) Senior
3 106 (19.70%) Developer
4 55 (10.22%) Senior Software Engineer
5 50 (9.29%) Python Developer
6 46 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (8.55%) Programmer
7 45 (8.36%) Trainee
7 45 (8.36%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (7.99%) Senior Developer
9 42 (7.81%) C++ Software Engineer
10 37 (6.88%) Lead
11 31 (5.76%) Embedded Engineer
12 30 (5.58%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.65%) FPGA Engineer
13 25 (4.65%) Python Software Engineer
14 22 (4.09%) Senior Python Developer
15 21 (3.90%) Data Scientist
16 20 (3.72%) Linux Developer
16 20 (3.72%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (13.38%) NumPy
1 72 (13.38%) Pandas
2 54 (10.04%) Streamlit
3 53 (9.85%) scikit-learn
4 50 (9.29%) Hugging Face
4 50 (9.29%) Matplotlib
5 45 (8.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 30 (5.58%) PyTorch
7 27 (5.02%) TensorFlow
8 24 (4.46%) Django
9 21 (3.90%) HTML
10 20 (3.72%) FIX Protocol
10 20 (3.72%) React
11 18 (3.35%) pytest
12 17 (3.16%) .NET
12 17 (3.16%) CSS
13 14 (2.60%) REST
14 11 (2.04%) RESTful
15 9 (1.67%) Node.js
15 9 (1.67%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.54%) Data Structures
2 47 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (7.25%) Equities
4 35 (6.51%) Embedded Systems
5 33 (6.13%) FPGA
6 25 (4.65%) Management Information System
7 23 (4.28%) Hedge funds
8 22 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (4.09%) PCIe
8 22 (4.09%) VHDL
9 20 (3.72%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.53%) Fixed Income
11 18 (3.35%) Derivative
12 17 (3.16%) Robotics
12 17 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.23%) NVMe
14 10 (1.86%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.86%) Over-the-Top Content
14 10 (1.86%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.45%) Linux
2 9 (1.67%) Windows
3 7 (1.30%) Robot Operating System
4 6 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.74%) Android
6 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (44.24%) Software Engineering
2 149 (27.70%) AI
2 149 (27.70%) Computer Science
3 144 (26.77%) Machine Learning
4 98 (18.22%) OOP
5 93 (17.29%) Agile
6 88 (16.36%) OO
7 82 (15.24%) Data Science
8 80 (14.87%) Visualisation
9 77 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
10 72 (13.38%) Analytics
11 70 (13.01%) Workflow
12 67 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 63 (11.71%) Signal Processing
14 59 (10.97%) CI/CD
15 57 (10.59%) LLM
16 55 (10.22%) Mentoring
16 55 (10.22%) SDLC
17 54 (10.04%) Mathematics
18 52 (9.67%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 325 (60.41%) Python
2 160 (29.74%) C++
3 59 (10.97%) C
4 50 (9.29%) C#
5 40 (7.43%) SQL
6 23 (4.28%) MATLAB
6 23 (4.28%) Rust
7 22 (4.09%) Java
7 22 (4.09%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.53%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.60%) Assembly Language
10 13 (2.42%) Go
11 12 (2.23%) Embedded C
11 12 (2.23%) Embedded C++
12 6 (1.12%) R
13 4 (0.74%) Julia
14 3 (0.56%) VBA
15 2 (0.37%) Bash
16 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 121 (22.49%) Degree
2 57 (10.59%) AWS Certification
3 50 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 48 (8.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 46 (8.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (6.51%) Master's Degree
7 24 (4.46%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.53%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.53%) PhD
9 12 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) HND
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.58%) QA
2 11 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 10 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.49%) GDPR
5 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.93%) Automotive SPICE
5 5 (0.93%) ISO 26262
5 5 (0.93%) MISRA
5 5 (0.93%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.19%) EMIR
7 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (7.81%) Firmware
2 39 (7.25%) Docker
3 19 (3.53%) 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 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 20 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.23%) Terraform
3 9 (1.67%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.93%) SCCM
4 5 (0.93%) SCOM
4 5 (0.93%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 59 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 55 (10.22%) Google
3 16 (2.97%) Altera
4 13 (2.42%) Xilinx
5 12 (2.23%) IBM
6 9 (1.67%) Databricks
6 9 (1.67%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.12%) Botify
8 5 (0.93%) Dell
8 5 (0.93%) HP
8 5 (0.93%) McAfee
8 5 (0.93%) VMware
9 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.74%) TikTok
10 3 (0.56%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.56%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.37%) Foundry
12 1 (0.19%) Adobe
12 1 (0.19%) MathWorks
12 1 (0.19%) Oracle