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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 197 286
Rank change year-on-year -66 +89 -131
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 430 825 508
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.91% 1.42% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 4.05% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 204 436 345
10th Percentile £39,496 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,900 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £113,750 £85,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £144,250 £105,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £75,900 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -3.45% +3.57%

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 16,558 20,391 17,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.19% 35.09% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,484 9,919 13,036
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,628 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +26 230 £108,750 +35.94% 63
South East -80 68 £69,525 +6.96% 64
East of England -31 48 £55,000 -27.63% 32
South West -35 33 £45,021 -30.74% 32
Midlands +29 23 £75,000 +25.00% 17
North of England -1 18 £35,000 -34.28% 24
West Midlands +44 13 £60,000 +10.60% 9
North West +27 10 £38,250 -32.31% 11
East Midlands +10 8 £75,000 +20.00% 7
Yorkshire -3 8 £35,000 -22.22% 3
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 19 (4.42%) Kinematics
2 13 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.40%) CMS
5 4 (0.93%) WordPress
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.47%) Kentico
7 2 (0.47%) Luigi
7 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.63%) Simulink
2 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
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 PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 53 (12.33%) AWS
2 47 (10.93%) Azure
3 38 (8.84%) GCP
4 17 (3.95%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.49%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.49%) Vertex AI
6 10 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 10 (2.33%) GitHub
7 8 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.40%) Google Docs
9 5 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.16%) Google Sheets
9 5 (1.16%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.16%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (0.93%) dbt
10 4 (0.93%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.09%) Multicast
1 9 (2.09%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.47%) Broadband
3 2 (0.47%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.23%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.23%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
4 1 (0.23%) SSL
4 1 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.23%) Wireless
4 1 (0.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.88%) NoSQL
2 19 (4.42%) Metadata
3 15 (3.49%) Data Mining
3 15 (3.49%) Power BI
4 14 (3.26%) Big Data
5 13 (3.02%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.09%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.09%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.86%) Looker
8 6 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.40%) KDB
8 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.40%) Tableau
9 5 (1.16%) MySQL
10 4 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.93%) Redis
11 3 (0.70%) GIS
12 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (6.05%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (3.72%) Git
2 16 (3.72%) JIRA
3 10 (2.33%) MLflow
4 4 (0.93%) GitLab
4 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.70%) TestRail
5 3 (0.70%) Vite
6 2 (0.47%) JConsole
6 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.47%) VisualVM
7 1 (0.23%) Bazaar
General
1 142 (33.02%) Finance
2 119 (27.67%) Social Skills
3 80 (18.60%) Law
4 74 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (14.65%) Electronics
6 56 (13.02%) Marketing
7 48 (11.16%) Banking
7 48 (11.16%) Front Office
8 42 (9.77%) Games
9 38 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (4.42%) Retail
12 15 (3.49%) Investment Banking
13 13 (3.02%) Advertising
14 11 (2.56%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.56%) Manufacturing
15 10 (2.33%) Legal
15 10 (2.33%) Public Sector
16 8 (1.86%) Aerospace
17 7 (1.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (20.47%) Senior
2 81 (18.84%) Developer
3 72 (16.74%) Software Engineer
4 67 (15.58%) Lead
5 37 (8.60%) Quantitative Developer
6 31 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 29 (6.74%) Systems Engineer
8 27 (6.28%) Principal Engineer
9 25 (5.81%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.12%) C++ Developer
10 22 (5.12%) Data Scientist
10 22 (5.12%) Python Developer
11 21 (4.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 21 (4.88%) Python Engineer
11 21 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 20 (4.65%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.42%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (4.42%) Robotics Engineer
14 18 (4.19%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 18 (4.19%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (6.28%) Kafka
3 22 (5.12%) TensorFlow
4 20 (4.65%) Middleware
5 19 (4.42%) PyTorch
5 19 (4.42%) React
6 18 (4.19%) FIX Protocol
7 17 (3.95%) REST
8 16 (3.72%) Django
9 14 (3.26%) scikit-learn
10 13 (3.02%) .NET
11 11 (2.56%) Flask
12 10 (2.33%) FastAPI
12 10 (2.33%) FHIR
12 10 (2.33%) HTML
13 9 (2.09%) CSS
13 9 (2.09%) pytest
13 9 (2.09%) Spring
14 7 (1.63%) Java Concurrency
15 6 (1.40%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.35%) Data Structures
2 51 (11.86%) Equities
3 44 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (5.81%) Hedge funds
4 25 (5.81%) Management Information System
4 25 (5.81%) Robotics
5 24 (5.58%) Cloud Native
6 23 (5.35%) Derivative
7 14 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.02%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.02%) Social Media
9 12 (2.79%) Fixed Income
9 12 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.56%) 3D Graphics
10 11 (2.56%) Life Science
11 10 (2.33%) Omics
12 9 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.86%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.40%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.00%) Linux
2 8 (1.86%) Unix
3 3 (0.70%) Windows
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (39.53%) AI
2 149 (34.65%) Software Engineering
3 141 (32.79%) Analytics
4 137 (31.86%) Machine Learning
5 112 (26.05%) Computer Science
6 104 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (22.09%) Agile
8 88 (20.47%) Data Science
9 82 (19.07%) Mathematics
10 71 (16.51%) Low Latency
11 68 (15.81%) Statistics
12 66 (15.35%) SDLC
13 57 (13.26%) Visualisation
14 53 (12.33%) Data Analytics
14 53 (12.33%) DevOps
15 50 (11.63%) OO
16 49 (11.40%) Data Analysis
17 48 (11.16%) Business Strategy
17 48 (11.16%) Thought Leadership
18 46 (10.70%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 213 (49.53%) Python
2 100 (23.26%) C++
3 71 (16.51%) Java
4 64 (14.88%) SQL
5 46 (10.70%) C
6 37 (8.60%) C#
7 14 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.26%) MATLAB
8 13 (3.02%) R
9 12 (2.79%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.63%) Bash
11 5 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.16%) Rust
11 5 (1.16%) Scala
12 4 (0.93%) Fortran
12 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.70%) Assembly Language
13 3 (0.70%) Tcl
13 3 (0.70%) VC++
Qualifications
1 164 (38.14%) Degree
2 94 (21.86%) Master's Degree
3 89 (20.70%) PhD
4 40 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (7.44%) Security Cleared
6 28 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (5.81%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.09%) CISM
8 9 (2.09%) CISSP
9 7 (1.63%) CISA
9 7 (1.63%) CRISC
10 6 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.23%) CEH
13 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.23%) GIAC
13 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 21 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.79%) QA
5 10 (2.33%) CDISC
5 10 (2.33%) GxP
5 10 (2.33%) HL7
6 7 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.93%) GDPR
8 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.70%) NIST
9 2 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
9 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.23%) GMP
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (7.67%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.09%) Terraform
3 6 (1.40%) Ansible
4 5 (1.16%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.47%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.47%) logstash
5 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.47%) Puppet
6 1 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (13.95%) Google
2 26 (6.05%) IBM
2 26 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 17 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 14 (3.26%) Screaming Frog
5 12 (2.79%) Ahrefs
6 10 (2.33%) Oracle
7 7 (1.63%) YouTube
8 5 (1.16%) Adobe
8 5 (1.16%) Databricks
9 4 (0.93%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.70%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.70%) Facebook
10 3 (0.70%) Instagram
10 3 (0.70%) SAP
10 3 (0.70%) TikTok
11 2 (0.47%) Criteo
11 2 (0.47%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.47%) Thales
12 1 (0.23%) Intapp