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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 249 212
Rank change year-on-year -90 -37 +67
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 545 521 874
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.20% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 2.87% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 342 234 380
10th Percentile £35,275 £37,424 £39,450
25th Percentile £52,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -10.34%
75th Percentile £82,188 £109,063 £83,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £144,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -7.52%

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 27,224 18,172 21,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.17% 41.89% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,631 9,265 10,838
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,213 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -141 163 £82,500 -25.00% 1,076
South East -11 150 £70,000 +11.87% 217
East of England +15 117 £65,000 +18.18% 210
North of England -40 45 £51,000 +38.78% 158
South West -63 41 £61,250 +36.05% 126
Midlands -32 28 £67,500 +1.89% 115
Yorkshire -29 21 £32,500 -7.14% 44
West Midlands -32 16 £67,500 +22.73% 61
North West -23 12 £60,000 +33.33% 94
East Midlands -38 12 £81,250 +7.05% 54
North East -49 12 £60,000 -47.83% 23
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 8 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.10%) SAS
3 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.18%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (4.40%) Simulink
2 4 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.73%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.83%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.74%) AWS
2 46 (8.44%) Azure
3 21 (3.85%) GCP
4 16 (2.94%) GitHub
5 15 (2.75%) Google Ads
5 15 (2.75%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.20%) SaaS
7 10 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.47%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.92%) Vertex AI
10 5 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.73%) Serverless
11 4 (0.73%) Slack
12 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.55%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) Multicast
1 13 (2.39%) Wireless
2 11 (2.02%) Broadband
2 11 (2.02%) LTE
3 9 (1.65%) 5G
4 7 (1.28%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.28%) GSM
4 7 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.28%) RANAP
4 7 (1.28%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.28%) SS7
4 7 (1.28%) UMTS
4 7 (1.28%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.55%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.55%) Internet
5 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.37%) Firewall
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) DNS
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.49%) Big Data
2 18 (3.30%) Metadata
3 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.47%) Power BI
5 6 (1.10%) GIS
6 5 (0.92%) MySQL
6 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.73%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.73%) KDB
7 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.73%) Redis
7 4 (0.73%) Tableau
8 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 68 (12.48%) Git
2 19 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (3.30%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (2.94%) JIRA
5 13 (2.39%) GitLab
6 10 (1.83%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.28%) GCC
7 7 (1.28%) GDB
8 5 (0.92%) MLflow
8 5 (0.92%) PetaLinux
9 4 (0.73%) CMake
10 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
11 2 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.18%) QUnit
12 1 (0.18%) Subversion
12 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 94 (17.25%) Finance
2 90 (16.51%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.61%) Banking
6 35 (6.42%) Marketing
7 29 (5.32%) Electronics
8 27 (4.95%) Aerospace
9 26 (4.77%) Retail
10 16 (2.94%) Advertising
11 14 (2.57%) Law
12 13 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.39%) Front Office
12 13 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.83%) Legal
14 9 (1.65%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.47%) Automotive
15 8 (1.47%) Games
15 8 (1.47%) Military
16 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (26.97%) Software Engineer
2 121 (22.20%) Senior
3 77 (14.13%) Developer
4 52 (9.54%) Lead
5 44 (8.07%) Senior Software Engineer
6 41 (7.52%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (6.24%) Data Scientist
8 32 (5.87%) C++ Software Engineer
9 27 (4.95%) FPGA Engineer
9 27 (4.95%) Python Engineer
10 26 (4.77%) Python Developer
10 26 (4.77%) Senior Developer
11 21 (3.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 21 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
11 21 (3.85%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 18 (3.30%) SEO Specialist
13 17 (3.12%) Architect
13 17 (3.12%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (2.75%) Senior Data Scientist
14 15 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.14%) PyTorch
1 28 (5.14%) React
2 27 (4.95%) HTML
3 26 (4.77%) CSS
4 24 (4.40%) .NET
4 24 (4.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 23 (4.22%) TensorFlow
6 17 (3.12%) FIX Protocol
7 15 (2.75%) NumPy
7 15 (2.75%) Pandas
7 15 (2.75%) STL
8 14 (2.57%) Yocto
9 13 (2.39%) pytest
10 11 (2.02%) Kafka
10 11 (2.02%) Terraform
11 9 (1.65%) Node.js
12 8 (1.47%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.47%) Google JAX
12 8 (1.47%) JAX
12 8 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.39%) Data Structures
2 46 (8.44%) Embedded Systems
2 46 (8.44%) FPGA
3 36 (6.61%) Robotics
4 29 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.32%) Equities
5 25 (4.59%) VHDL
6 22 (4.04%) PCIe
7 16 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.75%) Fixed Income
9 14 (2.57%) Derivative
9 14 (2.57%) Verilog
10 13 (2.39%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.20%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.83%) ASIC
12 10 (1.83%) NVMe
12 10 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.65%) Cloud Native
13 9 (1.65%) Device Driver
14 8 (1.47%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.29%) Linux
2 19 (3.49%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (2.57%) Windows
4 5 (0.92%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.55%) Unix
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (43.12%) Software Engineering
2 168 (30.83%) AI
3 146 (26.79%) Computer Science
4 143 (26.24%) Machine Learning
5 105 (19.27%) Agile
6 99 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (17.06%) Data Science
8 83 (15.23%) Mathematics
9 74 (13.58%) Analytics
10 69 (12.66%) CI/CD
11 55 (10.09%) Signal Processing
12 52 (9.54%) Decision-Making
13 51 (9.36%) Mentoring
14 49 (8.99%) Test Automation
15 48 (8.81%) Validation
16 47 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (8.26%) Roadmaps
18 41 (7.52%) Low Latency
19 40 (7.34%) Deep Learning
19 40 (7.34%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 281 (51.56%) Python
2 165 (30.28%) C++
3 67 (12.29%) C
4 58 (10.64%) C#
5 49 (8.99%) MATLAB
6 46 (8.44%) SQL
7 41 (7.52%) Java
8 29 (5.32%) JavaScript
9 26 (4.77%) TypeScript
10 23 (4.22%) Embedded C++
11 19 (3.49%) Embedded C
11 19 (3.49%) Rust
12 12 (2.20%) Go
13 10 (1.83%) Assembly Language
14 9 (1.65%) R
15 5 (0.92%) SystemVerilog
16 4 (0.73%) Fortran
17 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.55%) VBA
18 2 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 165 (30.28%) Degree
2 86 (15.78%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (8.44%) SC Cleared
5 44 (8.07%) Master's Degree
6 31 (5.69%) PhD
7 24 (4.40%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.02%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.65%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.55%) CISSP
13 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.24%) QA
2 13 (2.39%) GDPR
3 12 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (1.10%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.10%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.10%) MISRA
6 6 (1.10%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.55%) NIST
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (8.62%) Docker
2 41 (7.52%) Firmware
3 22 (4.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.18%) Ceph
6 1 (0.18%) Lustre
6 1 (0.18%) NFS
6 1 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 30 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.73%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
3 2 (0.37%) SCCM
3 2 (0.37%) SCOM
3 2 (0.37%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 31 (5.69%) Google
2 13 (2.39%) Xilinx
3 12 (2.20%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.02%) Altera
5 8 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.47%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (1.10%) Ahrefs
6 6 (1.10%) Databricks
6 6 (1.10%) IBM
6 6 (1.10%) Thales
7 5 (0.92%) TikTok
8 4 (0.73%) Foundry
8 4 (0.73%) Intel
8 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
9 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
10 2 (0.37%) McAfee
10 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.37%) VMware
10 2 (0.37%) YouTube