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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 216 175
Rank change year-on-year -81 -41 +18
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 530 648 1,469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.62% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 3.76% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 369 261 687
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,500 £47,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,200 £125,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%

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 21,415 17,228 31,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.41% 43.02% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,112 8,372 21,271
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%

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 23 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 23 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 -57 206 £95,000 -13.64% 120
South East -52 117 £70,000 +12.90% 56
North of England -9 68 £37,500 -56.01% 34
East of England -13 65 £65,000 +18.18% 38
South West -89 44 £57,500 +15.00% 39
Midlands -30 33 £37,500 -37.50% 23
North West +3 31 £37,500 -56.01% 15
West Midlands -10 26 £37,500 -37.50% 11
Yorkshire -18 21 £37,500 -47.91% 8
North East -38 16 £52,000 -54.78% 13
East Midlands -29 6 £57,500 -4.17% 12
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 (9.43%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.51%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.51%) CMS
3 6 (1.13%) SAS
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.38%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 50 (9.43%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.45%) Simulink
3 3 (0.57%) Blender
3 3 (0.57%) Maya
4 2 (0.38%) CATIA
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.38%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.26%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 119 (22.45%) AWS
2 56 (10.57%) Azure
3 55 (10.38%) Cloud Computing
4 34 (6.42%) GCP
5 19 (3.58%) GitHub
6 17 (3.21%) Google Analytics
7 15 (2.83%) SaaS
8 9 (1.70%) Slack
9 8 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.32%) Google Ads
10 7 (1.32%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.94%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (0.94%) Prefect
11 5 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.75%) Serverless
13 3 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.57%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.34%) Broadband
2 18 (3.40%) Multicast
3 6 (1.13%) 5G
3 6 (1.13%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.13%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.75%) Internet
5 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.38%) Firewall
6 2 (0.38%) Wireless
7 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) LTE
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.19%) RANAP
7 1 (0.19%) RS-422
7 1 (0.19%) SS7
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.15%) BigQuery
2 21 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (3.96%) Metadata
3 20 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.26%) Big Data
5 11 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.13%) GIS
8 5 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.94%) Power BI
9 4 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.75%) MySQL
9 4 (0.75%) Redis
10 3 (0.57%) Tableau
11 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.38%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.19%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 70 (13.21%) Visual Studio Code
2 69 (13.02%) Git
3 22 (4.15%) JIRA
4 19 (3.58%) Rational DOORS
5 17 (3.21%) GitLab
6 3 (0.57%) PetaLinux
7 2 (0.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.38%) MLflow
7 2 (0.38%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.19%) CMake
8 1 (0.19%) GCC
8 1 (0.19%) GDB
8 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
General
1 137 (25.85%) Finance
2 74 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (12.64%) Social Skills
4 66 (12.45%) Retail
5 56 (10.57%) Manufacturing
6 29 (5.47%) Marketing
7 26 (4.91%) Electronics
8 22 (4.15%) Front Office
9 21 (3.96%) Banking
10 20 (3.77%) Automotive
11 19 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (3.02%) Aerospace
13 15 (2.83%) Games
14 10 (1.89%) Advertising
15 7 (1.32%) Legal
16 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
19 3 (0.57%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 146 (27.55%) Software Engineer
2 128 (24.15%) Senior
3 106 (20.00%) Developer
4 55 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 50 (9.43%) Python Developer
6 46 (8.68%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (8.68%) Programmer
7 45 (8.49%) Trainee
7 45 (8.49%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (8.11%) Senior Developer
9 41 (7.74%) C++ Software Engineer
10 35 (6.60%) Lead
11 30 (5.66%) Python Engineer
12 28 (5.28%) Embedded Engineer
13 25 (4.72%) FPGA Engineer
13 25 (4.72%) Python Software Engineer
14 23 (4.34%) Senior Python Developer
15 21 (3.96%) C++ Developer
15 21 (3.96%) Quantitative Developer
15 21 (3.96%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.77%) NumPy
1 73 (13.77%) Pandas
2 54 (10.19%) scikit-learn
2 54 (10.19%) Streamlit
3 51 (9.62%) Matplotlib
4 49 (9.25%) Hugging Face
5 47 (8.87%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 29 (5.47%) PyTorch
7 26 (4.91%) TensorFlow
8 24 (4.53%) Django
9 20 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
10 19 (3.58%) HTML
11 18 (3.40%) pytest
11 18 (3.40%) React
12 17 (3.21%) .NET
13 15 (2.83%) CSS
14 13 (2.45%) REST
15 10 (1.89%) RESTful
16 9 (1.70%) Node.js
16 9 (1.70%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 88 (16.60%) Data Structures
2 47 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (7.55%) Equities
4 33 (6.23%) Embedded Systems
5 32 (6.04%) FPGA
6 26 (4.91%) Management Information System
7 24 (4.53%) Hedge funds
8 22 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (4.15%) PCIe
8 22 (4.15%) VHDL
9 21 (3.96%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.58%) Fixed Income
11 18 (3.40%) Derivative
12 17 (3.21%) Video\Live Streaming
13 16 (3.02%) Robotics
14 12 (2.26%) NVMe
15 10 (1.89%) Over-the-Top Content
15 10 (1.89%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.70%) Driving Licence
17 8 (1.51%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.45%) Linux
2 8 (1.51%) Windows
3 7 (1.32%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.75%) Android
5 4 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.38%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (43.96%) Software Engineering
2 148 (27.92%) Computer Science
3 146 (27.55%) AI
4 143 (26.98%) Machine Learning
5 98 (18.49%) OOP
6 91 (17.17%) Agile
7 88 (16.60%) OO
8 82 (15.47%) Data Science
9 81 (15.28%) Visualisation
10 75 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
11 72 (13.58%) Analytics
12 71 (13.40%) Workflow
13 67 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (11.89%) Signal Processing
15 57 (10.75%) CI/CD
15 57 (10.75%) LLM
16 55 (10.38%) Mentoring
16 55 (10.38%) SDLC
17 54 (10.19%) Mathematics
18 52 (9.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 322 (60.75%) Python
2 157 (29.62%) C++
3 57 (10.75%) C
4 49 (9.25%) C#
5 41 (7.74%) SQL
6 23 (4.34%) MATLAB
6 23 (4.34%) Rust
7 20 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.40%) Java
9 17 (3.21%) JavaScript
10 14 (2.64%) Assembly Language
10 14 (2.64%) Go
11 11 (2.08%) Embedded C
11 11 (2.08%) Embedded C++
12 7 (1.32%) R
13 4 (0.75%) Julia
14 3 (0.57%) VBA
15 2 (0.38%) Bash
16 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 118 (22.26%) Degree
2 57 (10.75%) AWS Certification
3 49 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 48 (9.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 44 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (6.42%) Master's Degree
7 24 (4.53%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.58%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.58%) PhD
9 11 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.19%) HND
12 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.47%) QA
2 11 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 7 (1.32%) GDPR
4 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.75%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (0.75%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 4 (0.75%) MISRA
5 4 (0.75%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.19%) EMIR
6 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 41 (7.74%) Firmware
2 38 (7.17%) Docker
3 18 (3.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.94%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.40%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.26%) Terraform
3 9 (1.70%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.94%) SCCM
4 5 (0.94%) SCOM
4 5 (0.94%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 58 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.00%) Google
3 16 (3.02%) Altera
4 13 (2.45%) Xilinx
5 12 (2.26%) IBM
6 9 (1.70%) Databricks
6 9 (1.70%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.13%) Botify
8 5 (0.94%) Dell
8 5 (0.94%) HP
8 5 (0.94%) McAfee
8 5 (0.94%) VMware
9 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.75%) TikTok
10 3 (0.57%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.57%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.38%) Foundry
12 1 (0.19%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.19%) Thales
12 1 (0.19%) YouTube