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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 244 209
Rank change year-on-year -83 -35 +76
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 545 533 931
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.24% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 2.96% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 349 233 388
10th Percentile £35,450 £37,439 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £111,250 £84,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £100,375
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.34%

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 26,562 18,029 22,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.95% 41.99% 32.32%
Number of salaries quoted 17,270 9,139 11,668
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -129 175 £82,500 -24.14% 956
South East -30 147 £70,000 +12.90% 175
East of England +5 110 £65,000 +18.18% 147
North of England -44 46 £52,000 +15.56% 92
South West -60 42 £60,000 -4.12% 100
Midlands -45 25 £67,500 +12.50% 65
Yorkshire -23 22 £32,500 -7.14% 22
West Midlands -39 18 £67,500 +22.73% 40
North East -48 13 £60,000 -47.83% 16
North West -34 11 £60,000 +33.33% 56
East Midlands -31 7 £81,250 +78.57% 25
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 9 (1.65%) 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%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.30%) Simulink
2 3 (0.55%) Blender
2 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.55%) Mathematica
2 3 (0.55%) Maya
3 2 (0.37%) CATIA
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.65%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.74%) AWS
2 49 (8.99%) Azure
3 23 (4.22%) GCP
4 16 (2.94%) Google Analytics
5 15 (2.75%) GitHub
6 14 (2.57%) Google Ads
7 12 (2.20%) SaaS
8 9 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.47%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.92%) Slack
11 5 (0.92%) Vertex AI
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.73%) Serverless
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.20%) Broadband
1 12 (2.20%) Multicast
2 11 (2.02%) Wireless
3 9 (1.65%) 5G
3 9 (1.65%) LTE
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%) 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%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.49%) Metadata
2 18 (3.30%) Big Data
3 15 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.47%) Power BI
5 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.10%) GIS
6 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.92%) MySQL
6 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
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%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (12.48%) Git
2 20 (3.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (3.30%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (2.57%) GitLab
4 14 (2.57%) JIRA
5 10 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.28%) GCC
6 7 (1.28%) GDB
7 4 (0.73%) CMake
7 4 (0.73%) MLflow
7 4 (0.73%) PetaLinux
8 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.18%) QUnit
10 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 93 (17.06%) Finance
2 84 (15.41%) Social Skills
3 61 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.61%) Marketing
6 33 (6.06%) Banking
7 27 (4.95%) Aerospace
8 26 (4.77%) Electronics
9 25 (4.59%) Retail
10 16 (2.94%) Advertising
11 14 (2.57%) Front Office
11 14 (2.57%) Law
12 13 (2.39%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.39%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.83%) Legal
14 8 (1.47%) Automotive
14 8 (1.47%) Games
15 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 152 (27.89%) Software Engineer
2 119 (21.83%) Senior
3 84 (15.41%) Developer
4 51 (9.36%) Lead
5 46 (8.44%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (7.16%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (6.24%) Data Scientist
8 33 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
9 30 (5.50%) Python Developer
10 29 (5.32%) Senior Developer
11 26 (4.77%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.04%) FPGA Engineer
13 20 (3.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 20 (3.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 19 (3.49%) Python Software Engineer
15 17 (3.12%) SEO Specialist
16 16 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
17 15 (2.75%) Architect
17 15 (2.75%) Principal Engineer
18 14 (2.57%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.32%) PyTorch
2 26 (4.77%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 26 (4.77%) HTML
2 26 (4.77%) React
3 25 (4.59%) .NET
4 24 (4.40%) CSS
5 23 (4.22%) TensorFlow
6 18 (3.30%) NumPy
6 18 (3.30%) Pandas
7 16 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (2.57%) STL
9 12 (2.20%) pytest
9 12 (2.20%) Yocto
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%) Django
12 8 (1.47%) Flask
12 8 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.31%) Data Structures
2 42 (7.71%) Embedded Systems
3 37 (6.79%) FPGA
4 33 (6.06%) Robotics
5 32 (5.87%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (5.32%) Equities
7 21 (3.85%) VHDL
8 19 (3.49%) PCIe
9 16 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.57%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.57%) Hedge funds
10 14 (2.57%) Management Information System
11 13 (2.39%) Derivative
12 12 (2.20%) Verilog
13 10 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.65%) ASIC
14 9 (1.65%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.65%) NVMe
15 8 (1.47%) Cloud Native
15 8 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.38%) Linux
2 16 (2.94%) Windows
3 14 (2.57%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.55%) Unix
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
1 242 (44.40%) Software Engineering
2 158 (28.99%) AI
3 143 (26.24%) Computer Science
4 136 (24.95%) Machine Learning
5 104 (19.08%) Agile
6 96 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (16.70%) Data Science
8 79 (14.50%) Mathematics
9 73 (13.39%) Analytics
10 68 (12.48%) CI/CD
11 56 (10.28%) Signal Processing
12 55 (10.09%) Decision-Making
13 54 (9.91%) Mentoring
14 51 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (9.17%) Test Automation
16 47 (8.62%) Validation
17 43 (7.89%) Deep Learning
17 43 (7.89%) Low Latency
17 43 (7.89%) Roadmaps
18 41 (7.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 287 (52.66%) Python
2 160 (29.36%) C++
3 62 (11.38%) C
4 61 (11.19%) C#
5 48 (8.81%) SQL
6 42 (7.71%) Java
7 39 (7.16%) MATLAB
8 27 (4.95%) JavaScript
9 24 (4.40%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.49%) Embedded C++
10 19 (3.49%) Rust
11 16 (2.94%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.83%) Assembly Language
12 10 (1.83%) Go
13 9 (1.65%) R
14 4 (0.73%) Fortran
15 3 (0.55%) Julia
15 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 160 (29.36%) Degree
2 82 (15.05%) Security Cleared
3 46 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (7.89%) Master's Degree
5 42 (7.71%) SC Cleared
6 31 (5.69%) PhD
7 27 (4.95%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
10 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.06%) QA
2 12 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.20%) GDPR
3 11 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.10%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.10%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.10%) MISRA
5 6 (1.10%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.37%) NIST
8 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (8.44%) Docker
2 40 (7.34%) Firmware
3 21 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Ceph
7 1 (0.18%) IAG
7 1 (0.18%) Lustre
7 1 (0.18%) NFS
7 1 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 29 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.92%) Kubeflow
2 5 (0.92%) SCCM
2 5 (0.92%) SCOM
2 5 (0.92%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 34 (6.24%) Google
2 13 (2.39%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.02%) Screaming Frog
4 10 (1.83%) IBM
4 10 (1.83%) Xilinx
5 9 (1.65%) Altera
6 8 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.28%) Ahrefs
8 5 (0.92%) Databricks
8 5 (0.92%) Dell
8 5 (0.92%) HP
8 5 (0.92%) McAfee
8 5 (0.92%) Thales
8 5 (0.92%) TikTok
8 5 (0.92%) VMware
9 4 (0.73%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
10 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.37%) YouTube