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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 192 284
Rank change year-on-year -92 +92 -110
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 390 804 486
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 1.55% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 4.24% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 205 431 325
10th Percentile £40,015 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,163 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,900 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £85,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £139,000 £107,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £75,900 £70,000 £71,538
% change year-on-year +8.43% -2.15% -1.33%

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 18,763 18,952 16,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.76% 36.55% 37.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 9,338 12,454
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.68% -4.00% -2.34%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 0 209 £105,000 +31.25% 162
South East -93 62 £69,525 +6.96% 205
East of England -41 43 £55,000 -27.63% 113
South West -44 26 £40,792 -37.24% 97
Midlands +6 22 £75,000 +25.00% 120
North of England +2 18 £35,000 -30.00% 147
West Midlands +10 13 £60,000 +7.14% 64
North West +9 10 £38,250 -32.31% 77
Yorkshire -24 8 £35,000 -22.22% 55
East Midlands -9 7 £75,000 +22.45% 48
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 18 (4.62%) Kinematics
2 12 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.28%) WordPress
5 4 (1.03%) CMS
6 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) IIS
7 2 (0.51%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.79%) Simulink
2 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.77%) Final Cut Pro
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.03%) Azure
2 42 (10.77%) AWS
3 37 (9.49%) GCP
4 17 (4.36%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.85%) Google Analytics
6 12 (3.08%) Azure Machine Learning
7 11 (2.82%) GitHub
8 9 (2.31%) Vertex AI
9 7 (1.79%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.28%) Google Docs
10 5 (1.28%) Google Sheets
10 5 (1.28%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.03%) dbt
11 4 (1.03%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.77%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.77%) Canva
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.56%) Multicast
2 7 (1.79%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.77%) Network Security
5 2 (0.51%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.26%) VPN
6 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.13%) Metadata
2 17 (4.36%) NoSQL
2 17 (4.36%) Power BI
3 13 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.08%) Big Data
4 12 (3.08%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.82%) Data Mining
6 9 (2.31%) BigQuery
6 9 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.05%) Hadoop
7 8 (2.05%) Tableau
8 6 (1.54%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.28%) KDB
9 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.03%) Looker
11 3 (0.77%) GIS
11 3 (0.77%) Redis
12 2 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.51%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 26 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
2 17 (4.36%) JIRA
3 15 (3.85%) Git
4 9 (2.31%) MLflow
5 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.77%) TestRail
7 2 (0.51%) GitLab
7 2 (0.51%) JConsole
7 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.51%) VisualVM
General
1 118 (30.26%) Finance
2 104 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 64 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (15.13%) Electronics
5 49 (12.56%) Front Office
6 45 (11.54%) Law
7 40 (10.26%) Games
8 39 (10.00%) Marketing
9 31 (7.95%) Banking
10 24 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.85%) Financial Institution
12 12 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (3.08%) Retail
13 10 (2.56%) Legal
13 10 (2.56%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.31%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.79%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.28%) Advertising
16 5 (1.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 76 (19.49%) Developer
1 76 (19.49%) Senior
2 58 (14.87%) Lead
3 50 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 36 (9.23%) Quantitative Developer
5 31 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 29 (7.44%) Systems Engineer
7 28 (7.18%) Principal Engineer
8 25 (6.41%) Senior Developer
9 22 (5.64%) Python Developer
10 21 (5.38%) C++ Developer
10 21 (5.38%) Data Scientist
10 21 (5.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 19 (4.87%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Linux Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Senior C++ Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Senior Python Developer
12 18 (4.62%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 24 (6.15%) TensorFlow
3 23 (5.90%) Kafka
4 21 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
5 19 (4.87%) Middleware
5 19 (4.87%) PyTorch
6 18 (4.62%) Django
7 14 (3.59%) scikit-learn
8 11 (2.82%) Flask
9 10 (2.56%) .NET
9 10 (2.56%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.56%) FHIR
9 10 (2.56%) HTML
9 10 (2.56%) pytest
9 10 (2.56%) React
9 10 (2.56%) REST
10 8 (2.05%) CSS
10 8 (2.05%) Java Concurrency
11 6 (1.54%) Pandas
11 6 (1.54%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 60 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 54 (13.85%) Equities
3 41 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (6.41%) Hedge funds
4 25 (6.41%) Management Information System
5 23 (5.90%) Derivative
6 22 (5.64%) Robotics
7 21 (5.38%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.59%) Social Media
9 12 (3.08%) 3D Graphics
9 12 (3.08%) Fixed Income
9 12 (3.08%) Life Science
10 11 (2.82%) Product Ownership
10 11 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.56%) Omics
12 9 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.03%) Unix
3 3 (0.77%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (37.18%) AI
2 126 (32.31%) Analytics
2 126 (32.31%) Software Engineering
3 123 (31.54%) Machine Learning
4 114 (29.23%) Computer Science
5 92 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (21.54%) Data Science
7 82 (21.03%) Mathematics
8 70 (17.95%) Agile
8 70 (17.95%) Low Latency
9 67 (17.18%) Statistics
10 52 (13.33%) Data Analytics
11 49 (12.56%) DevOps
12 47 (12.05%) Data Analysis
13 44 (11.28%) Business Strategy
14 43 (11.03%) SDLC
14 43 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
15 42 (10.77%) OO
15 42 (10.77%) Signal Processing
15 42 (10.77%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 206 (52.82%) Python
2 96 (24.62%) C++
3 60 (15.38%) Java
4 57 (14.62%) SQL
5 44 (11.28%) C
6 35 (8.97%) C#
7 15 (3.85%) R
8 13 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.33%) MATLAB
9 7 (1.79%) Bash
10 5 (1.28%) Go
10 5 (1.28%) Rust
10 5 (1.28%) Scala
11 4 (1.03%) Fortran
11 4 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.03%) VC++
12 3 (0.77%) Assembly Language
12 3 (0.77%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.77%) Swift
12 3 (0.77%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 163 (41.79%) Degree
2 94 (24.10%) Master's Degree
3 90 (23.08%) PhD
4 40 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (7.18%) Security Cleared
7 23 (5.90%) SC Cleared
8 8 (2.05%) CISM
8 8 (2.05%) CISSP
9 7 (1.79%) CISA
9 7 (1.79%) CRISC
10 5 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.03%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.77%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.51%) MBA
14 1 (0.26%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CEH
14 1 (0.26%) GIAC
14 1 (0.26%) MCP
14 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 23 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.82%) QA
5 10 (2.56%) CDISC
5 10 (2.56%) GxP
5 10 (2.56%) HL7
6 7 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.51%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.51%) EMIR
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.51%) NIST
9 1 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.26%) GMP
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.28%) Terraform
3 4 (1.03%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.51%) Ansible
4 2 (0.51%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.51%) logstash
4 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.51%) Puppet
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 46 (11.79%) Google
2 26 (6.67%) IBM
3 19 (4.87%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.08%) Ahrefs
4 12 (3.08%) Screaming Frog
5 11 (2.82%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.79%) Databricks
6 7 (1.79%) Oracle
6 7 (1.79%) YouTube
7 5 (1.28%) Adobe
8 4 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.77%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.77%) Facebook
9 3 (0.77%) Instagram
9 3 (0.77%) SAP
9 3 (0.77%) TikTok
10 2 (0.51%) BT
10 2 (0.51%) Criteo
10 2 (0.51%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.26%) Charles River