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 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 162 202
Rank change year-on-year -142 +40 -42
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 380 794 1,065
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.91% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 4.94% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 213 385 638
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,281 £55,000 £52,345
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +0.38% -11.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% - -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 20,362 16,059 25,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.85% 38.60% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10,483 8,052 19,192
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -5 181 £100,000 -1.23% 171
South East -113 52 £67,500 +8.00% 126
North of England -36 47 £37,500 -46.43% 59
East of England -56 35 £55,000 -27.63% 84
South West -73 34 £40,792 -37.24% 70
North West -16 27 £37,500 -56.01% 29
Midlands -20 24 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Yorkshire -47 15 £37,500 -28.57% 20
West Midlands +2 14 £37,500 -37.50% 23
East Midlands -35 10 £75,000 +25.00% 30
North East -12 5 £37,500 -37.50% 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 44 (11.58%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.37%) CMS
4 8 (2.11%) Kinematics
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.32%) IIS
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (11.58%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.84%) Simulink
3 3 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.79%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.79%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.53%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.58%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 94 (24.74%) AWS
2 48 (12.63%) Cloud Computing
3 45 (11.84%) Azure
4 35 (9.21%) GCP
5 15 (3.95%) GitHub
5 15 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.42%) Google Analytics
7 11 (2.89%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (1.84%) Snowflake
9 6 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.32%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.79%) Canva
12 3 (0.79%) Firebase
12 3 (0.79%) Slack
13 2 (0.53%) dbt
13 2 (0.53%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.53%) Google Sheets
13 2 (0.53%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.89%) Multicast
2 7 (1.84%) Broadband
2 7 (1.84%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.32%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.05%) Network Security
5 1 (0.26%) Internet
5 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.53%) BigQuery
2 20 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (5.26%) Metadata
3 17 (4.47%) Big Data
4 13 (3.42%) Power BI
5 12 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.63%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.63%) Tableau
7 8 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.84%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.58%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.32%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.79%) Looker
12 3 (0.79%) Redis
13 1 (0.26%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.26%) GIS
13 1 (0.26%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 47 (12.37%) Visual Studio Code
2 21 (5.53%) Git
3 19 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
4 13 (3.42%) JIRA
5 4 (1.05%) MLflow
6 3 (0.79%) GitLab
7 2 (0.53%) JConsole
7 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.53%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 146 (38.42%) Finance
2 85 (22.37%) Social Skills
3 74 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (15.79%) Retail
5 50 (13.16%) Manufacturing
6 44 (11.58%) Marketing
7 39 (10.26%) Front Office
8 35 (9.21%) Electronics
9 23 (6.05%) Games
10 19 (5.00%) Banking
11 17 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (4.21%) Legal
13 14 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (3.42%) Law
15 12 (3.16%) Automotive
16 10 (2.63%) Financial Institution
16 10 (2.63%) Public Sector
17 8 (2.11%) Aerospace
18 7 (1.84%) Telecoms
19 6 (1.58%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 75 (19.74%) Senior
2 65 (17.11%) Software Engineer
3 59 (15.53%) Developer
4 44 (11.58%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 44 (11.58%) Programmer
4 44 (11.58%) Trainee
4 44 (11.58%) Trainee Programmer
5 31 (8.16%) Lead
6 30 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 26 (6.84%) C++ Software Engineer
8 24 (6.32%) Quantitative Developer
9 23 (6.05%) Python Developer
9 23 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (5.53%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
12 19 (5.00%) C++ Developer
12 19 (5.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (5.00%) Linux Developer
12 19 (5.00%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (5.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.95%) Pandas
1 53 (13.95%) scikit-learn
2 52 (13.68%) NumPy
3 47 (12.37%) Matplotlib
4 46 (12.11%) Streamlit
5 45 (11.84%) Hugging Face
6 35 (9.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 25 (6.58%) Django
7 25 (6.58%) TensorFlow
8 22 (5.79%) FIX Protocol
9 19 (5.00%) PyTorch
10 14 (3.68%) .NET
11 12 (3.16%) Kafka
12 11 (2.89%) pytest
12 11 (2.89%) React
13 10 (2.63%) RESTful
14 8 (2.11%) HTML
14 8 (2.11%) Middleware
15 7 (1.84%) Java Concurrency
15 7 (1.84%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.68%) Data Structures
2 44 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (10.26%) Equities
4 30 (7.89%) Management Information System
5 21 (5.53%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (5.53%) Hedge funds
6 18 (4.74%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.74%) Derivative
7 14 (3.68%) FPGA
8 13 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (3.16%) Fixed Income
9 12 (3.16%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.16%) Social Media
10 11 (2.89%) Robotics
11 10 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (2.63%) PCIe
12 9 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (2.37%) Life Science
13 8 (2.11%) 3D Graphics
13 8 (2.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.84%) Linux
2 4 (1.05%) Android
2 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.05%) Unix
3 3 (0.79%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (42.11%) AI
2 147 (38.68%) Machine Learning
3 124 (32.63%) Software Engineering
4 120 (31.58%) Computer Science
5 97 (25.53%) Analytics
6 77 (20.26%) Data Science
6 77 (20.26%) OOP
7 75 (19.74%) OO
8 74 (19.47%) Visualisation
9 66 (17.37%) Workflow
10 63 (16.58%) LLM
11 62 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (16.05%) Mathematics
13 56 (14.74%) Agile
14 53 (13.95%) Data Privacy
15 50 (13.16%) Neural Network
16 47 (12.37%) Customer Service
16 47 (12.37%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 46 (12.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 46 (12.11%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 234 (61.58%) Python
2 105 (27.63%) C++
3 51 (13.42%) SQL
4 44 (11.58%) C
5 34 (8.95%) Java
6 32 (8.42%) C#
7 17 (4.47%) R
8 14 (3.68%) MATLAB
8 14 (3.68%) Rust
9 12 (3.16%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.37%) Assembly Language
11 8 (2.11%) Go
12 5 (1.32%) Bash
12 5 (1.32%) Scala
12 5 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.79%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.79%) Tcl
14 3 (0.79%) VBA
14 3 (0.79%) VC++
Qualifications
1 126 (33.16%) Degree
2 49 (12.89%) Master's Degree
2 49 (12.89%) PhD
3 47 (12.37%) AWS Certification
4 44 (11.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 36 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (7.11%) Security Cleared
7 26 (6.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (6.05%) SC Cleared
9 8 (2.11%) CISM
9 8 (2.11%) CISSP
10 7 (1.84%) CISA
10 7 (1.84%) CRISC
10 7 (1.84%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.32%) MBA
12 4 (1.05%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.26%) CEH
14 1 (0.26%) GIAC
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (3.16%) QA
4 10 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.84%) CDISC
5 7 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.84%) GxP
5 7 (1.84%) HL7
5 7 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.79%) EMIR
8 2 (0.53%) GDPR
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (4.74%) Firmware
2 14 (3.68%) Docker
3 6 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (3.16%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.32%) Terraform
3 3 (0.79%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
4 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 52 (13.68%) Google
1 52 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.42%) IBM
3 10 (2.63%) Altera
4 9 (2.37%) Databricks
4 9 (2.37%) Screaming Frog
5 8 (2.11%) YouTube
6 6 (1.58%) Botify
6 6 (1.58%) Oracle
6 6 (1.58%) Xilinx
7 5 (1.32%) BT
8 4 (1.05%) Ahrefs
9 3 (0.79%) Adobe
9 3 (0.79%) Facebook
9 3 (0.79%) Instagram
9 3 (0.79%) TikTok
10 2 (0.53%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.53%) SAP
10 2 (0.53%) Thales
11 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg