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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 250 202
Rank change year-on-year -90 -48 +80
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 547 530 916
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.24% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 2.95% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 349 233 378
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 £84,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £102,375
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 26,740 17,985 21,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.01% 42.01% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 9,107 11,271
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,742 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
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 23 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 23 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 -120 175 £82,500 -24.14% 765
South East -21 148 £70,000 +12.90% 158
East of England +6 110 £65,000 +18.18% 129
North of England -36 46 £52,000 +15.56% 98
South West -67 42 £60,000 -4.12% 99
Midlands -48 26 £67,500 +12.50% 71
Yorkshire -24 22 £32,500 -7.14% 25
West Midlands -31 18 £67,500 +22.73% 43
North East -58 13 £60,000 -47.83% 15
North West -33 11 £60,000 +33.33% 59
East Midlands -31 8 £95,000 +108.79% 28
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 (0.91%) 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 (3.29%) Simulink
2 4 (0.73%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) CATIA
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 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 (11.70%) AWS
2 49 (8.96%) Azure
3 24 (4.39%) GCP
4 16 (2.93%) Google Analytics
5 15 (2.74%) GitHub
6 14 (2.56%) Google Ads
7 12 (2.19%) SaaS
8 10 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.91%) Slack
11 5 (0.91%) Vertex AI
11 5 (0.91%) 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%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.19%) Broadband
1 12 (2.19%) Multicast
1 12 (2.19%) Wireless
2 10 (1.83%) LTE
3 9 (1.65%) 5G
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 (3.47%) Metadata
2 18 (3.29%) Big Data
3 15 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.46%) Power BI
5 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.10%) GIS
6 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.91%) MySQL
6 5 (0.91%) 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 (12.43%) Git
2 20 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (3.29%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (2.56%) GitLab
4 14 (2.56%) 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 (17.00%) Finance
2 85 (15.54%) Social Skills
3 61 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.58%) Marketing
6 34 (6.22%) Banking
7 28 (5.12%) Aerospace
8 27 (4.94%) Retail
9 26 (4.75%) Electronics
10 16 (2.93%) Advertising
11 14 (2.56%) Front Office
11 14 (2.56%) Law
12 13 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.38%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.83%) Legal
14 8 (1.46%) Automotive
14 8 (1.46%) Games
15 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 152 (27.79%) Software Engineer
2 119 (21.76%) Senior
3 83 (15.17%) Developer
4 52 (9.51%) Lead
5 46 (8.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (7.13%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (6.22%) Data Scientist
8 33 (6.03%) C++ Software Engineer
9 29 (5.30%) Python Developer
9 29 (5.30%) Senior Developer
10 25 (4.57%) Python Engineer
11 22 (4.02%) FPGA Engineer
12 20 (3.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 20 (3.66%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 19 (3.47%) Python Software Engineer
14 17 (3.11%) SEO Specialist
15 16 (2.93%) Architect
15 16 (2.93%) Principal Engineer
15 16 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
16 14 (2.56%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.30%) PyTorch
2 26 (4.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 26 (4.75%) HTML
2 26 (4.75%) React
3 25 (4.57%) .NET
4 24 (4.39%) CSS
5 23 (4.20%) TensorFlow
6 17 (3.11%) NumPy
6 17 (3.11%) Pandas
7 16 (2.93%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (2.56%) STL
9 12 (2.19%) pytest
9 12 (2.19%) Yocto
10 11 (2.01%) Kafka
10 11 (2.01%) Terraform
11 9 (1.65%) Node.js
12 8 (1.46%) ASP.NET
12 8 (1.46%) Django
12 8 (1.46%) Flask
12 8 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.26%) Data Structures
2 42 (7.68%) Embedded Systems
3 37 (6.76%) FPGA
4 33 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (6.03%) Robotics
5 29 (5.30%) Equities
6 21 (3.84%) VHDL
7 19 (3.47%) PCIe
8 16 (2.93%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.74%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.56%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.56%) Hedge funds
11 13 (2.38%) Derivative
12 12 (2.19%) Verilog
13 10 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.65%) ASIC
14 9 (1.65%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.65%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.65%) NVMe
15 8 (1.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.33%) Linux
2 16 (2.93%) Windows
3 14 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
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%) 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
1 243 (44.42%) Software Engineering
2 160 (29.25%) AI
3 143 (26.14%) Computer Science
4 137 (25.05%) Machine Learning
5 104 (19.01%) Agile
6 98 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (16.64%) Data Science
8 81 (14.81%) Mathematics
9 73 (13.35%) Analytics
10 68 (12.43%) CI/CD
11 56 (10.24%) Signal Processing
12 55 (10.05%) Decision-Making
12 55 (10.05%) Mentoring
13 51 (9.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (9.14%) Test Automation
15 47 (8.59%) Validation
16 44 (8.04%) Roadmaps
17 43 (7.86%) Low Latency
18 42 (7.68%) Deep Learning
19 41 (7.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 287 (52.47%) Python
2 162 (29.62%) C++
3 62 (11.33%) C
3 62 (11.33%) C#
4 48 (8.78%) SQL
5 42 (7.68%) Java
6 41 (7.50%) MATLAB
7 27 (4.94%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 19 (3.47%) Embedded C++
9 19 (3.47%) Rust
10 16 (2.93%) Embedded C
11 10 (1.83%) Assembly Language
11 10 (1.83%) Go
12 9 (1.65%) R
13 4 (0.73%) Fortran
14 3 (0.55%) Julia
14 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
14 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 161 (29.43%) Degree
2 83 (15.17%) Security Cleared
3 46 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (8.04%) Master's Degree
5 43 (7.86%) SC Cleared
6 32 (5.85%) PhD
7 27 (4.94%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.55%) CISSP
13 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.18%) HND
14 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.03%) QA
2 12 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.19%) GDPR
3 11 (2.01%) 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 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.55%) NIST
8 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (8.41%) Docker
2 40 (7.31%) Firmware
3 21 (3.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.91%) 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 30 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) Kubeflow
2 5 (0.91%) SCCM
2 5 (0.91%) SCOM
2 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 34 (6.22%) Google
2 13 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.01%) Screaming Frog
4 10 (1.83%) IBM
4 10 (1.83%) Xilinx
5 9 (1.65%) Altera
6 8 (1.46%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.28%) Ahrefs
8 6 (1.10%) Thales
9 5 (0.91%) Databricks
9 5 (0.91%) Dell
9 5 (0.91%) HP
9 5 (0.91%) McAfee
9 5 (0.91%) TikTok
9 5 (0.91%) VMware
10 4 (0.73%) Foundry
10 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
11 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
12 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
12 2 (0.37%) YouTube