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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 152 189
Rank change year-on-year -164 +37 -29
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 391 765 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 2.08% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 5.33% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 230 384 632
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £54,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
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 21,027 14,348 27,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.85% 38.98% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,817 8,071 19,981
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,114 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 25 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 25 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 -36 194 £100,000 -2.44% 127
South East -128 58 £67,250 +7.60% 101
North of England -66 46 £37,500 -47.91% 54
South West -107 32 £40,792 -37.24% 55
Midlands -48 30 £50,000 -16.67% 48
North West -35 27 £37,500 -56.88% 27
East of England -91 26 £42,500 -44.08% 47
West Midlands -4 18 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Yorkshire -47 13 £37,500 -28.57% 15
East Midlands -54 11 £75,000 +25.00% 27
North East -23 6 £37,500 -50.82% 13
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 (12.28%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.30%) CMS
4 5 (1.28%) IIS
4 5 (1.28%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.51%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (12.28%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.02%) Simulink
3 3 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.77%) Final Cut Pro
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.51%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.05%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 109 (27.88%) AWS
2 52 (13.30%) Cloud Computing
3 48 (12.28%) Azure
4 38 (9.72%) GCP
5 16 (4.09%) GitHub
6 14 (3.58%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.07%) Google Analytics
8 11 (2.81%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (1.79%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.28%) Slack
11 4 (1.02%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.02%) Prefect
11 4 (1.02%) SaaS
12 3 (0.77%) Canva
12 3 (0.77%) Firebase
13 2 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.51%) dbt
13 2 (0.51%) LangSmith
13 2 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.84%) Broadband
2 13 (3.32%) Multicast
3 8 (2.05%) Software-Defined Radio
4 6 (1.53%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.02%) Network Security
7 2 (0.51%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) IPsec
8 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.26%) VPN
8 1 (0.26%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.39%) BigQuery
2 22 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (4.60%) Metadata
4 14 (3.58%) Big Data
4 14 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.07%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.07%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.07%) Power BI
6 10 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.56%) Tableau
7 6 (1.53%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.26%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.26%) Looker
10 1 (0.26%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 51 (13.04%) Visual Studio Code
2 29 (7.42%) Git
3 18 (4.60%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (4.09%) JIRA
5 4 (1.02%) MLflow
6 3 (0.77%) GitLab
7 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 142 (36.32%) Finance
2 71 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (17.90%) Social Skills
4 63 (16.11%) Retail
5 53 (13.55%) Manufacturing
6 43 (11.00%) Marketing
7 34 (8.70%) Front Office
8 29 (7.42%) Electronics
8 29 (7.42%) Games
9 19 (4.86%) Banking
10 13 (3.32%) Automotive
10 13 (3.32%) Law
11 12 (3.07%) Legal
12 11 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.56%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.56%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.28%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (20.20%) Senior
2 77 (19.69%) Software Engineer
3 71 (18.16%) Developer
4 46 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (11.76%) Programmer
5 45 (11.51%) Trainee
5 45 (11.51%) Trainee Programmer
6 35 (8.95%) Senior Developer
7 33 (8.44%) Python Developer
8 32 (8.18%) C++ Software Engineer
9 28 (7.16%) Lead
10 23 (5.88%) Quantitative Developer
10 23 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (5.37%) Senior Python Developer
12 20 (5.12%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.86%) C++ Developer
13 19 (4.86%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.86%) Linux Developer
13 19 (4.86%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 19 (4.86%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (16.88%) Pandas
2 65 (16.62%) NumPy
3 56 (14.32%) scikit-learn
4 51 (13.04%) Matplotlib
5 50 (12.79%) Streamlit
6 49 (12.53%) Hugging Face
7 39 (9.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 30 (7.67%) TensorFlow
9 29 (7.42%) Django
10 26 (6.65%) PyTorch
11 23 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (3.84%) .NET
13 14 (3.58%) REST
14 13 (3.32%) pytest
14 13 (3.32%) React
15 12 (3.07%) RESTful
16 9 (2.30%) HTML
17 8 (2.05%) Kafka
18 7 (1.79%) Flask
18 7 (1.79%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.69%) Data Structures
2 47 (12.02%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (10.23%) Equities
4 26 (6.65%) Management Information System
5 25 (6.39%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.37%) Hedge funds
7 19 (4.86%) Derivative
8 17 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 17 (4.35%) FPGA
9 16 (4.09%) Product Ownership
10 14 (3.58%) Fixed Income
11 12 (3.07%) PCIe
11 12 (3.07%) Social Media
11 12 (3.07%) Video\Live Streaming
12 11 (2.81%) VHDL
13 10 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (2.05%) 3D Graphics
15 8 (2.05%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.76%) Linux
2 4 (1.02%) Android
2 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.77%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (38.62%) AI
2 150 (38.36%) Machine Learning
3 145 (37.08%) Software Engineering
4 116 (29.67%) Computer Science
5 86 (21.99%) OOP
6 83 (21.23%) Analytics
7 81 (20.72%) OO
8 78 (19.95%) Visualisation
9 74 (18.93%) Data Science
10 70 (17.90%) Workflow
11 66 (16.88%) LLM
12 58 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (14.07%) Agile
14 54 (13.81%) Mathematics
14 54 (13.81%) Neural Network
15 53 (13.55%) Data Privacy
16 52 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 51 (13.04%) Customer Service
17 51 (13.04%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 49 (12.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 250 (63.94%) Python
2 105 (26.85%) C++
3 51 (13.04%) SQL
4 34 (8.70%) C
5 32 (8.18%) C#
6 24 (6.14%) Java
7 15 (3.84%) R
8 14 (3.58%) Rust
9 13 (3.32%) Go
10 10 (2.56%) JavaScript
11 9 (2.30%) Assembly Language
12 7 (1.79%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.79%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.28%) Scala
14 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.77%) Bash
15 3 (0.77%) VBA
15 3 (0.77%) VC++
16 2 (0.51%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.51%) Julia
Qualifications
1 113 (28.90%) Degree
2 52 (13.30%) AWS Certification
3 48 (12.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 45 (11.51%) Master's Degree
5 42 (10.74%) PhD
6 39 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.32%) Security Cleared
8 10 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.30%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.79%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.28%) MBA
12 4 (1.02%) CISM
12 4 (1.02%) CISSP
12 4 (1.02%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.77%) CISA
13 3 (0.77%) CRISC
13 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.26%) GIAC
14 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.12%) QA
3 10 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.02%) CDISC
6 4 (1.02%) GxP
6 4 (1.02%) HL7
7 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.77%) EMIR
7 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.51%) GDPR
8 2 (0.51%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
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 17 (4.35%) Firmware
2 15 (3.84%) Docker
3 8 (2.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) IAG
Systems Management
1 12 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.53%) Terraform
3 5 (1.28%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (13.81%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.02%) Google
3 13 (3.32%) Databricks
4 12 (3.07%) Altera
5 10 (2.56%) IBM
5 10 (2.56%) Screaming Frog
6 9 (2.30%) Xilinx
7 7 (1.79%) YouTube
8 6 (1.53%) Botify
8 6 (1.53%) Oracle
9 5 (1.28%) BT
10 4 (1.02%) Ahrefs
11 3 (0.77%) Adobe
11 3 (0.77%) Facebook
11 3 (0.77%) Instagram
11 3 (0.77%) TikTok
12 2 (0.51%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.51%) SAP
12 2 (0.51%) Thales
13 1 (0.26%) NVIDIA