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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 223 175
Rank change year-on-year -79 -48 +21
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 549 635 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.50% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 3.58% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 380 269 672
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,875 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,847
Median % change year-on-year - +3.43% -13.31%
75th Percentile £89,063 £98,474 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,125 £130,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%

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 22,090 17,737 30,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.59% 41.93% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14,617 8,795 20,539
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,498
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,475 £38,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -14.10%

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 July 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 July 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 -59 203 £95,000 -13.64% 186
South East -49 127 £70,000 +12.90% 69
East of England -5 77 £65,000 +18.18% 49
North of England -13 67 £37,500 -53.13% 43
South West -98 45 £55,000 +10.00% 41
Midlands -14 33 £37,500 -37.50% 21
North West -16 30 £37,500 -56.01% 20
West Midlands -5 26 £37,500 -37.50% 10
Yorkshire -15 21 £37,500 -47.18% 9
North East -30 16 £52,000 -54.78% 16
East Midlands -29 6 £57,500 +32.18% 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 (9.11%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.46%) CMS
3 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.09%) SAS
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 50 (9.11%) Chatbot
2 13 (2.37%) Simulink
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) CATIA
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.36%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.19%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 122 (22.22%) AWS
2 55 (10.02%) Azure
2 55 (10.02%) Cloud Computing
3 33 (6.01%) GCP
4 19 (3.46%) Google Analytics
5 17 (3.10%) GitHub
6 15 (2.73%) SaaS
7 9 (1.64%) Google Ads
8 8 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (1.46%) Slack
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.09%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.91%) Prefect
11 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.73%) Serverless
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.55%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.01%) Broadband
2 17 (3.10%) Multicast
3 6 (1.09%) 5G
3 6 (1.09%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.73%) Internet
5 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.55%) Wireless
6 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
6 2 (0.36%) Firewall
6 2 (0.36%) GSM
6 2 (0.36%) LTE
6 2 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.36%) RANAP
6 2 (0.36%) SS7
6 2 (0.36%) UMTS
6 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.18%) MQTT
7 1 (0.18%) RS-422
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.19%) Metadata
2 21 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.64%) BigQuery
4 19 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 10 (1.82%) Big Data
7 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.09%) GIS
9 5 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.73%) MySQL
10 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.73%) Power BI
10 4 (0.73%) Redis
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.18%) Trino
Development Applications
1 70 (12.75%) Visual Studio Code
2 69 (12.57%) Git
3 21 (3.83%) JIRA
4 17 (3.10%) GitLab
4 17 (3.10%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.36%) GCC
6 2 (0.36%) GDB
6 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
6 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) CMake
7 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 135 (24.59%) Finance
2 72 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (12.93%) Social Skills
4 66 (12.02%) Retail
5 56 (10.20%) Manufacturing
6 32 (5.83%) Marketing
7 26 (4.74%) Electronics
8 22 (4.01%) Banking
8 22 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (3.64%) Front Office
10 19 (3.46%) Automotive
11 15 (2.73%) Aerospace
11 15 (2.73%) Games
12 13 (2.37%) Advertising
13 8 (1.46%) Legal
14 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.55%) French Language
Job Titles
1 144 (26.23%) Software Engineer
2 132 (24.04%) Senior
3 107 (19.49%) Developer
4 53 (9.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 50 (9.11%) Python Developer
6 46 (8.38%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (8.38%) Programmer
7 45 (8.20%) Trainee
7 45 (8.20%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 42 (7.65%) C++ Software Engineer
10 40 (7.29%) Lead
11 35 (6.38%) Embedded Engineer
12 29 (5.28%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.55%) FPGA Engineer
14 24 (4.37%) Data Scientist
14 24 (4.37%) Python Software Engineer
15 21 (3.83%) Senior Python Developer
16 19 (3.46%) C++ Developer
16 19 (3.46%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.93%) NumPy
1 71 (12.93%) Pandas
2 54 (9.84%) Streamlit
3 52 (9.47%) scikit-learn
4 50 (9.11%) Hugging Face
5 49 (8.93%) Matplotlib
6 42 (7.65%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 29 (5.28%) PyTorch
8 26 (4.74%) TensorFlow
9 23 (4.19%) HTML
10 22 (4.01%) Django
11 21 (3.83%) React
12 19 (3.46%) CSS
12 19 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
13 17 (3.10%) .NET
13 17 (3.10%) pytest
14 14 (2.55%) REST
15 10 (1.82%) RESTful
16 9 (1.64%) Node.js
16 9 (1.64%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 87 (15.85%) Data Structures
2 47 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.92%) Embedded Systems
3 38 (6.92%) Equities
4 34 (6.19%) FPGA
5 24 (4.37%) Management Information System
6 22 (4.01%) Hedge funds
6 22 (4.01%) PCIe
6 22 (4.01%) VHDL
7 20 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.28%) Fixed Income
8 18 (3.28%) Robotics
9 17 (3.10%) Derivative
10 16 (2.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (2.19%) NVMe
12 11 (2.00%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.82%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.64%) Over-the-Top Content
14 9 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.02%) Linux
2 10 (1.82%) Windows
3 7 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
3 7 (1.28%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.73%) Android
5 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.36%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (44.08%) Software Engineering
2 151 (27.50%) AI
3 148 (26.96%) Computer Science
4 146 (26.59%) Machine Learning
5 97 (17.67%) OOP
6 94 (17.12%) Agile
7 89 (16.21%) OO
8 83 (15.12%) Data Science
9 80 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (14.39%) Visualisation
11 72 (13.11%) Analytics
12 69 (12.57%) Workflow
13 67 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (11.48%) Signal Processing
15 60 (10.93%) CI/CD
16 58 (10.56%) LLM
17 54 (9.84%) Mentoring
18 53 (9.65%) Mathematics
18 53 (9.65%) SDLC
18 53 (9.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 326 (59.38%) Python
2 160 (29.14%) C++
3 62 (11.29%) C
4 51 (9.29%) C#
5 39 (7.10%) SQL
6 24 (4.37%) Rust
7 23 (4.19%) Java
7 23 (4.19%) MATLAB
7 23 (4.19%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.46%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.55%) Assembly Language
10 13 (2.37%) Embedded C
10 13 (2.37%) Embedded C++
10 13 (2.37%) Go
11 5 (0.91%) R
12 4 (0.73%) Julia
13 3 (0.55%) VBA
14 2 (0.36%) Bash
15 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.18%) VC++
Qualifications
1 126 (22.95%) Degree
2 57 (10.38%) AWS Certification
3 51 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 48 (8.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 45 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (6.92%) Master's Degree
7 24 (4.37%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.64%) PhD
9 19 (3.46%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.28%) QA
2 9 (1.64%) GDPR
2 9 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 8 (1.46%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.09%) Automotive SPICE
4 6 (1.09%) ISO 26262
4 6 (1.09%) MISRA
4 6 (1.09%) MISRA C
5 5 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.18%) EMIR
7 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (8.38%) Firmware
2 39 (7.10%) Docker
3 22 (4.01%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 20 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.19%) Terraform
3 8 (1.46%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.91%) SCCM
4 5 (0.91%) SCOM
4 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 60 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 54 (9.84%) Google
3 16 (2.91%) Altera
4 13 (2.37%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.82%) Databricks
5 10 (1.82%) IBM
6 9 (1.64%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.09%) Botify
8 5 (0.91%) Dell
8 5 (0.91%) HP
8 5 (0.91%) McAfee
8 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.91%) VMware
9 4 (0.73%) TikTok
10 3 (0.55%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.55%) Foundry
10 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.18%) Adobe
11 1 (0.18%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle