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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 221 193
Rank change year-on-year -73 -28 +53
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 570 650 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.49% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 3.52% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 387 277 420
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +12.96% -13.79%
75th Percentile £83,750 £106,250 £81,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 23,666 18,451 23,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.74% 42.20% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 15,563 9,357 14,882
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.60% -3.48% -9.45%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -81 214 £92,500 -15.91% 264
South East -37 129 £70,000 +12.90% 77
East of England -9 84 £65,000 +18.18% 60
North of England -13 71 £37,500 -47.91% 42
South West -96 46 £55,000 +19.89% 31
Yorkshire -17 31 £37,500 -21.05% 9
Midlands -26 29 £37,500 -37.50% 26
North West -8 24 £37,500 -56.01% 20
West Midlands -25 23 £37,500 -37.50% 9
North East -41 16 £52,000 -54.78% 15
East Midlands -25 5 £47,500 +75.93% 17
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 45 (7.89%) Jupyter
2 10 (1.75%) CMS
3 6 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.05%) SAS
4 5 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 44 (7.72%) Chatbot
2 11 (1.93%) Simulink
3 3 (0.53%) Blender
3 3 (0.53%) Maya
4 2 (0.35%) CATIA
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.35%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.75%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 120 (21.05%) AWS
2 54 (9.47%) Azure
3 46 (8.07%) Cloud Computing
4 30 (5.26%) GCP
5 19 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 15 (2.63%) GitHub
6 15 (2.63%) SaaS
7 13 (2.28%) Google Ads
8 9 (1.58%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (1.05%) Slack
12 5 (0.88%) Prefect
12 5 (0.88%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (0.70%) Vertex AI
14 3 (0.53%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.51%) Broadband
2 14 (2.46%) Multicast
3 7 (1.23%) 3GPP
3 7 (1.23%) GSM
3 7 (1.23%) LTE
3 7 (1.23%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (1.23%) RANAP
3 7 (1.23%) SS7
3 7 (1.23%) UMTS
3 7 (1.23%) Wireshark
4 6 (1.05%) 5G
5 5 (0.88%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.70%) Internet
7 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.53%) Wireless
8 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.35%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
9 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.39%) Metadata
2 21 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.81%) BigQuery
4 15 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.11%) Big Data
6 11 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (1.23%) Power BI
8 6 (1.05%) GIS
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.70%) MySQL
10 4 (0.70%) Redis
10 4 (0.70%) Tableau
11 3 (0.53%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.35%) KDB
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (12.46%) Git
2 63 (11.05%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (3.16%) JIRA
3 18 (3.16%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.63%) GitLab
5 11 (1.93%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.23%) GCC
6 7 (1.23%) GDB
7 4 (0.70%) CMake
8 3 (0.53%) PetaLinux
8 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
9 2 (0.35%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 148 (25.96%) Finance
2 74 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (12.46%) Social Skills
4 69 (12.11%) Retail
5 48 (8.42%) Manufacturing
6 41 (7.19%) Marketing
7 32 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (4.74%) Banking
9 26 (4.56%) Electronics
10 20 (3.51%) Games
11 19 (3.33%) Aerospace
11 19 (3.33%) Front Office
12 15 (2.63%) Legal
13 14 (2.46%) Automotive
14 13 (2.28%) Advertising
15 11 (1.93%) Law
15 11 (1.93%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.58%) Financial Institution
17 7 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
18 6 (1.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (27.19%) Software Engineer
2 132 (23.16%) Senior
3 108 (18.95%) Developer
4 48 (8.42%) Senior Software Engineer
5 46 (8.07%) Python Developer
6 42 (7.37%) C++ Software Engineer
6 42 (7.37%) Lead
6 42 (7.37%) Senior Developer
7 40 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 40 (7.02%) Programmer
8 39 (6.84%) Embedded Engineer
8 39 (6.84%) Trainee
8 39 (6.84%) Trainee Programmer
9 30 (5.26%) Data Scientist
10 27 (4.74%) Python Engineer
11 21 (3.68%) Python Software Engineer
12 20 (3.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 20 (3.51%) FPGA Engineer
13 19 (3.33%) Quantitative Developer
13 19 (3.33%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (11.40%) NumPy
1 65 (11.40%) Pandas
2 48 (8.42%) Streamlit
3 46 (8.07%) scikit-learn
4 44 (7.72%) Hugging Face
5 43 (7.54%) Matplotlib
6 35 (6.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 26 (4.56%) PyTorch
8 24 (4.21%) React
9 23 (4.04%) HTML
10 21 (3.68%) TensorFlow
11 19 (3.33%) CSS
12 18 (3.16%) Django
13 17 (2.98%) FIX Protocol
14 16 (2.81%) .NET
15 15 (2.63%) REST
16 14 (2.46%) pytest
17 10 (1.75%) Yocto
18 9 (1.58%) Flask
18 9 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.61%) Data Structures
2 49 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.49%) Embedded Systems
4 36 (6.32%) Equities
5 28 (4.91%) FPGA
6 21 (3.68%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.51%) Hedge funds
7 20 (3.51%) VHDL
8 18 (3.16%) Robotics
9 17 (2.98%) PCIe
10 16 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (2.63%) Derivative
11 15 (2.63%) Fixed Income
12 14 (2.46%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.11%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.75%) NVMe
14 10 (1.75%) Public Cloud
14 10 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.40%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 68 (11.93%) Linux
2 12 (2.11%) Windows
3 10 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.70%) Unix
5 4 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (43.86%) Software Engineering
2 173 (30.35%) AI
3 153 (26.84%) Computer Science
4 148 (25.96%) Machine Learning
5 101 (17.72%) Agile
6 97 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (16.14%) Data Science
8 87 (15.26%) OOP
9 83 (14.56%) OO
10 76 (13.33%) Analytics
11 75 (13.16%) Visualisation
12 65 (11.40%) CI/CD
13 62 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (10.70%) Mathematics
15 60 (10.53%) Workflow
16 58 (10.18%) Signal Processing
16 58 (10.18%) Test Automation
17 53 (9.30%) LLM
17 53 (9.30%) Mentoring
18 52 (9.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 332 (58.25%) Python
2 155 (27.19%) C++
3 57 (10.00%) C
4 49 (8.60%) C#
5 39 (6.84%) SQL
6 28 (4.91%) Java
7 26 (4.56%) Rust
8 25 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.86%) MATLAB
10 20 (3.51%) JavaScript
11 16 (2.81%) Embedded C++
12 14 (2.46%) Go
13 13 (2.28%) Embedded C
14 12 (2.11%) Assembly Language
15 9 (1.58%) R
16 4 (0.70%) Bash
16 4 (0.70%) Julia
16 4 (0.70%) VBA
17 3 (0.53%) Fortran
17 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (25.26%) Degree
2 59 (10.35%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.95%) AWS Certification
3 51 (8.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (7.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 34 (5.96%) Master's Degree
6 31 (5.44%) SC Cleared
7 23 (4.04%) DV Cleared
8 20 (3.51%) PhD
9 14 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.61%) QA
2 12 (2.11%) GDPR
3 10 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 7 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.05%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.05%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.05%) MISRA
6 6 (1.05%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.18%) EMIR
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (8.77%) Docker
2 43 (7.54%) Firmware
3 22 (3.86%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.28%) Terraform
3 6 (1.05%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.88%) SCCM
4 5 (0.88%) SCOM
4 5 (0.88%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 54 (9.47%) Google
1 54 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.93%) Altera
2 11 (1.93%) Screaming Frog
2 11 (1.93%) Xilinx
3 10 (1.75%) IBM
4 8 (1.40%) Databricks
5 6 (1.05%) Botify
5 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.88%) Ahrefs
6 5 (0.88%) Dell
6 5 (0.88%) HP
6 5 (0.88%) McAfee
6 5 (0.88%) VMware
7 4 (0.70%) TikTok
8 3 (0.53%) Foundry
8 3 (0.53%) Rockwell
9 2 (0.35%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.35%) Sitebulb
10 1 (0.18%) YouTube