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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 201 274
Rank change year-on-year -41 +73 -127
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 474 794 542
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.04% 1.32% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.78% 3.94% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 218 400 371
10th Percentile £37,477 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,122 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £113,750 £82,500 £102,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £105,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 17,025 20,155 18,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.44% 33.42% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,610 9,635 13,559
10th Percentile £27,707 £34,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,987 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +59 249 £110,000 +37.50% 349
South East -81 83 £62,575 -7.30% 97
East of England -24 54 £55,000 -27.63% 63
South West -23 42 £40,792 -37.24% 50
North of England +18 18 £35,000 -38.06% 78
Midlands +39 17 £70,000 +19.15% 31
West Midlands +36 11 £60,000 +10.60% 12
North West +31 10 £38,500 -31.87% 51
Yorkshire +5 8 £35,000 -37.22% 13
East Midlands +7 4 £75,900 +12.44% 18
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 21 (4.43%) Kinematics
2 14 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.48%) CMS
5 4 (0.84%) WordPress
6 3 (0.63%) Kentico
6 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.63%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.42%) Luigi
8 1 (0.21%) Apache
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.48%) Simulink
3 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.63%) Final Cut Pro
6 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) Mathcad
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 64 (13.50%) AWS
2 49 (10.34%) Azure
3 33 (6.96%) GCP
4 21 (4.43%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.16%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.16%) Vertex AI
6 10 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (1.90%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (1.90%) GitHub
8 6 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.27%) Google Docs
8 6 (1.27%) Google Sheets
8 6 (1.27%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.84%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.84%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.84%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (0.84%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.90%) Multicast
1 9 (1.90%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (0.63%) Internet
2 3 (0.63%) S/MIME
2 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.42%) Broadband
3 2 (0.42%) SSL
3 2 (0.42%) X.509
4 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (5.49%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.43%) Big Data
3 19 (4.01%) Metadata
4 16 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.16%) Data Mining
5 15 (3.16%) Power BI
5 15 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.95%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.32%) MySQL
8 10 (2.11%) Looker
8 10 (2.11%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.48%) Tableau
10 6 (1.27%) KDB
11 5 (1.05%) Redis
12 4 (0.84%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.84%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 34 (7.17%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (4.22%) Git
3 16 (3.38%) JIRA
4 9 (1.90%) MLflow
5 7 (1.48%) Vite
6 5 (1.05%) GitLab
7 4 (0.84%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.63%) TestRail
9 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.42%) JConsole
9 2 (0.42%) Selenium
9 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.42%) VisualVM
10 1 (0.21%) Bazaar
10 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
General
1 176 (37.13%) Finance
2 128 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 109 (23.00%) Law
4 79 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (15.61%) Electronics
6 71 (14.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (14.77%) Marketing
8 69 (14.56%) Banking
9 52 (10.97%) Front Office
10 35 (7.38%) Games
11 27 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (4.43%) Investment Banking
13 19 (4.01%) Retail
14 14 (2.95%) Advertising
15 12 (2.53%) Financial Institution
16 11 (2.32%) Manufacturing
17 10 (2.11%) Legal
17 10 (2.11%) Public Sector
18 8 (1.69%) Aerospace
19 7 (1.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 98 (20.68%) Software Engineer
2 95 (20.04%) Senior
3 81 (17.09%) Developer
4 73 (15.40%) Lead
5 39 (8.23%) Quantitative Developer
6 36 (7.59%) Systems Engineer
7 32 (6.75%) Principal Engineer
8 29 (6.12%) Python Engineer
9 28 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 28 (5.91%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 27 (5.70%) Python Software Engineer
10 27 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.49%) Java Software Engineer
12 24 (5.06%) C++ Developer
13 23 (4.85%) Python Developer
14 22 (4.64%) Senior Developer
15 21 (4.43%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 21 (4.43%) Data Scientist
15 21 (4.43%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (7.81%) Kafka
2 29 (6.12%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 29 (6.12%) React
3 23 (4.85%) REST
4 22 (4.64%) Middleware
5 21 (4.43%) TensorFlow
6 20 (4.22%) FIX Protocol
7 18 (3.80%) PyTorch
7 18 (3.80%) Spring
8 17 (3.59%) HTML
9 16 (3.38%) CSS
10 14 (2.95%) scikit-learn
11 12 (2.53%) Django
12 11 (2.32%) Flask
13 10 (2.11%) FastAPI
13 10 (2.11%) FHIR
13 10 (2.11%) OAuth
13 10 (2.11%) OpenID
14 9 (1.90%) pytest
15 8 (1.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 71 (14.98%) Data Structures
2 54 (11.39%) Equities
3 45 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.70%) Hedge funds
4 27 (5.70%) Robotics
5 26 (5.49%) Management Information System
6 25 (5.27%) Cloud Native
6 25 (5.27%) Derivative
7 17 (3.59%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.59%) Public Cloud
8 16 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.74%) Fixed Income
11 13 (2.74%) Social Media
12 11 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (2.32%) Life Science
13 10 (2.11%) Omics
14 8 (1.69%) Equity Derivative
14 8 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (9.70%) Linux
2 12 (2.53%) Unix
3 3 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Android
4 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (38.40%) AI
2 170 (35.86%) Software Engineering
3 152 (32.07%) Machine Learning
4 146 (30.80%) Analytics
5 121 (25.53%) Agile
6 112 (23.63%) Computer Science
7 110 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (19.20%) SDLC
9 88 (18.57%) Data Science
10 78 (16.46%) Mathematics
11 75 (15.82%) Visualisation
12 72 (15.19%) Low Latency
13 67 (14.14%) CI/CD
13 67 (14.14%) Statistics
14 60 (12.66%) OO
15 58 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 54 (11.39%) Data Analytics
16 54 (11.39%) Signal Processing
17 52 (10.97%) DevOps
18 51 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 227 (47.89%) Python
2 107 (22.57%) C++
3 91 (19.20%) Java
4 75 (15.82%) SQL
5 49 (10.34%) C
6 36 (7.59%) C#
7 22 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 20 (4.22%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.95%) MATLAB
10 13 (2.74%) R
11 8 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.48%) Bash
12 7 (1.48%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.48%) Scala
13 6 (1.27%) Rust
14 4 (0.84%) Fortran
14 4 (0.84%) Go
15 3 (0.63%) Assembly Language
15 3 (0.63%) Tcl
15 3 (0.63%) VC++
Qualifications
1 158 (33.33%) Degree
2 90 (18.99%) Master's Degree
3 83 (17.51%) PhD
4 49 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (6.96%) Security Cleared
6 27 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (5.49%) SC Cleared
8 10 (2.11%) CISM
8 10 (2.11%) CISSP
9 7 (1.48%) CISA
9 7 (1.48%) CRISC
9 7 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.84%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) CEH
12 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.21%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 21 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.95%) QA
4 13 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.11%) CDISC
5 10 (2.11%) GxP
5 10 (2.11%) HL7
6 7 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.05%) GDPR
8 4 (0.84%) NIST
9 3 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
10 2 (0.42%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (9.28%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Firmware
3 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.16%) Terraform
3 10 (2.11%) Ansible
4 5 (1.05%) Kubeflow
5 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.42%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.42%) Grafana
6 2 (0.42%) logstash
6 2 (0.42%) Mesos
6 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 71 (14.98%) Google
2 34 (7.17%) IBM
3 27 (5.70%) Microsoft
4 21 (4.43%) Screaming Frog
5 17 (3.59%) OpenAI
5 17 (3.59%) Oracle
6 16 (3.38%) Ahrefs
7 8 (1.69%) YouTube
8 7 (1.48%) Databricks
9 5 (1.05%) Adobe
10 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.63%) Facebook
11 3 (0.63%) Instagram
11 3 (0.63%) SAP
11 3 (0.63%) Thales
11 3 (0.63%) TikTok
12 2 (0.42%) Criteo
12 2 (0.42%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.42%) Splunk