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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 220 177
Rank change year-on-year -75 -43 +14
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 504 617 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.58% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.29% 3.67% 4.72%
Number of salaries quoted 342 260 693
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,625 £48,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £125,500 £104,237
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.78% -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 21,961 16,824 30,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.55% 43.08% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,211 8,003 20,984
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 5 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 5 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 -36 212 £95,000 -13.64% 189
South East -57 112 £63,500 +2.42% 75
North of England -34 66 £37,500 -56.01% 46
East of England -29 45 £45,000 -16.67% 68
South West -80 42 £60,000 +20.00% 48
North West -12 31 £37,500 -56.88% 25
Midlands -33 29 £43,000 -28.33% 22
Yorkshire -28 21 £37,500 -47.91% 11
West Midlands -29 21 £40,250 -32.92% 11
North East -36 14 £44,750 -61.09% 10
East Midlands -33 7 £57,500 -4.17% 11
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 (9.92%) Jupyter
2 10 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.79%) CMS
4 8 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.19%) SAS
6 5 (0.99%) IIS
7 2 (0.40%) Confluence
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (9.72%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.38%) Simulink
3 3 (0.60%) Blender
3 3 (0.60%) Maya
4 2 (0.40%) CATIA
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.40%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (2.38%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 3 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 120 (23.81%) AWS
2 55 (10.91%) Cloud Computing
3 54 (10.71%) Azure
4 32 (6.35%) GCP
5 15 (2.98%) Google Analytics
5 15 (2.98%) SaaS
6 14 (2.78%) GitHub
7 9 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (1.39%) Slack
9 5 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (0.99%) Prefect
9 5 (0.99%) Snowflake
9 5 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.79%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.60%) Vertex AI
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.37%) Broadband
2 17 (3.37%) Multicast
3 6 (1.19%) 5G
3 6 (1.19%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.19%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.79%) Internet
5 3 (0.60%) Network Security
5 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.40%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) IPsec
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) RS-422
7 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.37%) BigQuery
2 21 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (3.97%) Metadata
4 18 (3.57%) Big Data
4 18 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.59%) Tableau
9 7 (1.39%) Power BI
10 6 (1.19%) Data Mining
10 6 (1.19%) GIS
11 5 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.40%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.20%) Parquet
13 1 (0.20%) Presto
Development Applications
1 69 (13.69%) Visual Studio Code
2 66 (13.10%) Git
3 20 (3.97%) Rational DOORS
4 19 (3.77%) JIRA
5 16 (3.17%) GitLab
6 3 (0.60%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) CMake
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) Valgrind
General
1 142 (28.17%) Finance
2 77 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (13.10%) Social Skills
4 65 (12.90%) Retail
5 56 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 32 (6.35%) Marketing
7 26 (5.16%) Electronics
8 25 (4.96%) Front Office
9 20 (3.97%) Banking
9 20 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.98%) Aerospace
10 15 (2.98%) Automotive
11 13 (2.58%) Games
12 10 (1.98%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.19%) Legal
13 6 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.79%) Advertising
15 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (27.98%) Software Engineer
2 129 (25.60%) Senior
3 96 (19.05%) Developer
4 54 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 51 (10.12%) Python Developer
6 46 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (9.13%) Programmer
7 45 (8.93%) Trainee
7 45 (8.93%) Trainee Programmer
8 44 (8.73%) Senior Developer
9 40 (7.94%) C++ Software Engineer
10 28 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.76%) FPGA Engineer
11 24 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
12 23 (4.56%) Embedded Engineer
12 23 (4.56%) Lead
12 23 (4.56%) Python Software Engineer
12 23 (4.56%) Quantitative Developer
13 22 (4.37%) Data Scientist
13 22 (4.37%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.68%) Pandas
2 73 (14.48%) NumPy
3 54 (10.71%) scikit-learn
3 54 (10.71%) Streamlit
4 51 (10.12%) Matplotlib
5 49 (9.72%) Hugging Face
6 48 (9.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 25 (4.96%) Django
7 25 (4.96%) PyTorch
7 25 (4.96%) TensorFlow
8 20 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
9 17 (3.37%) HTML
9 17 (3.37%) pytest
10 15 (2.98%) .NET
11 14 (2.78%) React
12 12 (2.38%) CSS
13 11 (2.18%) REST
14 10 (1.98%) RESTful
15 9 (1.79%) Flask
16 8 (1.59%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 90 (17.86%) Data Structures
2 50 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (7.74%) Equities
4 31 (6.15%) FPGA
5 27 (5.36%) Embedded Systems
5 27 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 25 (4.96%) Hedge funds
7 24 (4.76%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (4.17%) PCIe
9 21 (4.17%) VHDL
10 18 (3.57%) Derivative
11 17 (3.37%) Fixed Income
12 15 (2.98%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.38%) NVMe
13 12 (2.38%) Robotics
14 10 (1.98%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.59%) Over-the-Top Content
16 7 (1.39%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.39%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.10%) Linux
2 8 (1.59%) Windows
3 7 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.60%) Android
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (44.84%) Software Engineering
2 155 (30.75%) Machine Learning
3 154 (30.56%) Computer Science
4 144 (28.57%) AI
5 96 (19.05%) OOP
6 92 (18.25%) Agile
7 89 (17.66%) Visualisation
8 88 (17.46%) Data Science
9 87 (17.26%) OO
10 80 (15.87%) Analytics
11 72 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (14.29%) Workflow
12 62 (12.30%) LLM
13 59 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (11.31%) CI/CD
15 55 (10.91%) Signal Processing
16 54 (10.71%) SDLC
17 52 (10.32%) Decision-Making
17 52 (10.32%) Mathematics
18 51 (10.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 324 (64.29%) Python
2 151 (29.96%) C++
3 51 (10.12%) SQL
4 48 (9.52%) C
5 45 (8.93%) C#
6 22 (4.37%) MATLAB
7 21 (4.17%) Java
7 21 (4.17%) Rust
8 17 (3.37%) Go
8 17 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 15 (2.98%) JavaScript
10 14 (2.78%) Assembly Language
11 11 (2.18%) R
12 10 (1.98%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.98%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.99%) Scala
14 4 (0.79%) Julia
14 4 (0.79%) VBA
15 2 (0.40%) Bash
15 2 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 122 (24.21%) Degree
2 57 (11.31%) AWS Certification
3 48 (9.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 47 (9.33%) Security Cleared
5 42 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (7.94%) Master's Degree
7 23 (4.56%) PhD
8 22 (4.37%) SC Cleared
9 19 (3.77%) DV Cleared
10 12 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.99%) MBA
12 4 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.60%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.20%) HND
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.96%) QA
2 13 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.99%) GDPR
6 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.60%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.40%) EMIR
9 1 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (6.75%) Docker
2 33 (6.55%) Firmware
3 12 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 19 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.98%) Terraform
3 7 (1.39%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.99%) SCCM
4 5 (0.99%) SCOM
4 5 (0.99%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 57 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.72%) Google
3 16 (3.17%) Altera
4 14 (2.78%) Databricks
5 13 (2.58%) IBM
5 13 (2.58%) Xilinx
6 10 (1.98%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.19%) Botify
8 5 (0.99%) BT
8 5 (0.99%) Dell
8 5 (0.99%) HP
8 5 (0.99%) McAfee
8 5 (0.99%) VMware
9 4 (0.79%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.60%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle
11 2 (0.40%) TikTok
12 1 (0.20%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.20%) Thales