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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 188 225
Rank change year-on-year -108 +37 -28
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 357 776 690
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.61% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 4.31% 3.83%
Number of salaries quoted 181 390 373
10th Percentile £40,808 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,900 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -4.36% -2.65%
75th Percentile £113,750 £82,500 £104,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £105,000 £145,000
UK median annual salary £75,900 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.77% -7.14% -3.45%

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 18,654 18,002 18,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.46% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,446 8,455 13,402
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,770 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +0.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +13 207 £102,500 +26.15% 97
South East -102 46 £60,000 -4.00% 147
East of England -36 35 £55,000 -27.63% 65
South West -46 26 £49,250 -24.23% 64
Midlands +2 19 £75,000 +25.00% 50
North of England -17 16 £45,000 -12.20% 70
North West +3 10 £55,000 -2.67% 30
West Midlands +7 9 £67,500 +12.50% 14
East Midlands -18 8 £75,000 +25.00% 35
Yorkshire -16 6 £35,000 -22.22% 27
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 13 (3.64%) Apache Spark
1 13 (3.64%) Kinematics
2 7 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.40%) IIS
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.56%) Luigi
5 2 (0.56%) WordPress
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Simulink
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.84%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.84%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Shopify
2 2 (0.56%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.17%) AWS
2 46 (12.89%) Azure
3 38 (10.64%) GCP
4 13 (3.64%) GitHub
4 13 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
6 9 (2.52%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.68%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.40%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.12%) dbt
9 4 (1.12%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.84%) Canva
10 3 (0.84%) Firebase
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.56%) Google App Engine
11 2 (0.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.36%) Multicast
2 5 (1.40%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.12%) Broadband
3 4 (1.12%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.04%) Big Data
2 17 (4.76%) Metadata
2 17 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.64%) BigQuery
3 13 (3.64%) Hadoop
3 13 (3.64%) Power BI
4 12 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.08%) Tableau
6 10 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.52%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.12%) KDB
11 3 (0.84%) Looker
11 3 (0.84%) Redis
12 2 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.56%) ClickHouse
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 23 (6.44%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (4.76%) JIRA
3 14 (3.92%) Git
4 7 (1.96%) MLflow
5 2 (0.56%) JConsole
5 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 115 (32.21%) Finance
2 86 (24.09%) Social Skills
3 50 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (13.73%) Front Office
5 48 (13.45%) Electronics
6 34 (9.52%) Games
7 33 (9.24%) Marketing
8 31 (8.68%) Law
9 29 (8.12%) Banking
10 22 (6.16%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (4.48%) Financial Institution
12 13 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.80%) Legal
13 10 (2.80%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.68%) Aeronautics
15 6 (1.68%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.40%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (20.45%) Developer
2 69 (19.33%) Senior
3 55 (15.41%) Software Engineer
4 46 (12.89%) Lead
5 33 (9.24%) Quantitative Developer
6 27 (7.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 26 (7.28%) Principal Engineer
8 25 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 24 (6.72%) Systems Engineer
10 21 (5.88%) Python Developer
11 20 (5.60%) C++ Developer
11 20 (5.60%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 20 (5.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 19 (5.32%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (5.32%) Data Scientist
13 18 (5.04%) Linux Developer
13 18 (5.04%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 18 (5.04%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (5.04%) Senior Python Developer
13 18 (5.04%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 25 (7.00%) FIX Protocol
3 23 (6.44%) TensorFlow
4 21 (5.88%) Django
5 19 (5.32%) Kafka
6 17 (4.76%) PyTorch
7 14 (3.92%) Middleware
8 12 (3.36%) pytest
9 10 (2.80%) .NET
9 10 (2.80%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.80%) FHIR
9 10 (2.80%) Flask
9 10 (2.80%) REST
9 10 (2.80%) scikit-learn
10 9 (2.52%) Java Concurrency
11 8 (2.24%) Pandas
12 7 (1.96%) HTML
12 7 (1.96%) NumPy
12 7 (1.96%) React
13 6 (1.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.69%) Data Structures
2 53 (14.85%) Equities
3 41 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (7.00%) Management Information System
5 24 (6.72%) Hedge funds
6 23 (6.44%) Derivative
7 20 (5.60%) Cloud Native
8 16 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.92%) Fixed Income
9 14 (3.92%) Robotics
10 12 (3.36%) Life Science
10 12 (3.36%) Product Ownership
11 11 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (3.08%) Social Media
12 10 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.80%) Omics
13 9 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (2.24%) 3D Graphics
15 6 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
16 4 (1.12%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.32%) Linux
2 4 (1.12%) Unix
3 1 (0.28%) Android
3 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (35.01%) AI
2 120 (33.61%) Computer Science
3 117 (32.77%) Software Engineering
4 109 (30.53%) Machine Learning
5 107 (29.97%) Analytics
6 80 (22.41%) Data Science
7 75 (21.01%) Mathematics
8 72 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (17.93%) Low Latency
10 61 (17.09%) Statistics
11 58 (16.25%) Agile
12 46 (12.89%) Data Analytics
13 44 (12.32%) Decision-Making
14 43 (12.04%) Data Analysis
14 43 (12.04%) SDLC
15 41 (11.48%) Technical Leadership
16 39 (10.92%) DevOps
17 37 (10.36%) Business Strategy
17 37 (10.36%) Thought Leadership
18 36 (10.08%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 199 (55.74%) Python
2 93 (26.05%) C++
3 56 (15.69%) SQL
4 54 (15.13%) Java
5 41 (11.48%) C
6 30 (8.40%) C#
7 19 (5.32%) R
8 13 (3.64%) MATLAB
9 11 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.24%) Scala
11 7 (1.96%) Go
12 5 (1.40%) Assembly Language
12 5 (1.40%) Bash
12 5 (1.40%) Rust
13 4 (1.12%) Fortran
13 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.84%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.84%) Swift
14 3 (0.84%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 150 (42.02%) Degree
2 79 (22.13%) Master's Degree
3 77 (21.57%) PhD
4 34 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (7.28%) Security Cleared
6 22 (6.16%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.24%) CISM
7 8 (2.24%) CISSP
8 7 (1.96%) CISA
8 7 (1.96%) CRISC
9 6 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.40%) MBA
11 4 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.12%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.28%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CEH
12 1 (0.28%) GIAC
12 1 (0.28%) MCP
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.28%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 13 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 12 (3.36%) QA
5 10 (2.80%) CDISC
5 10 (2.80%) GxP
5 10 (2.80%) HL7
6 7 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.56%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.56%) EMIR
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.56%) NIST
9 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.28%) GDPR
9 1 (0.28%) GMP
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (4.48%) Docker
2 7 (1.96%) Firmware
3 2 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (4.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.12%) Terraform
3 3 (0.84%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.56%) logstash
4 2 (0.56%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (8.68%) Google
2 21 (5.88%) IBM
3 9 (2.52%) Databricks
4 8 (2.24%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.24%) Screaming Frog
5 7 (1.96%) Oracle
5 7 (1.96%) YouTube
6 5 (1.40%) Adobe
6 5 (1.40%) Ahrefs
6 5 (1.40%) BT
7 4 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.84%) Altera
8 3 (0.84%) Facebook
8 3 (0.84%) Instagram
8 3 (0.84%) TikTok
9 2 (0.56%) Hotjar
9 2 (0.56%) SAP
9 2 (0.56%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.28%) Huawei
10 1 (0.28%) Sybase