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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 224 197
Rank change year-on-year -86 -27 +85
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 562 635 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.45% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 3.45% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 372 259 415
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,375 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £81,250 £110,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £99,239
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% +7.94% -10.00%

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 24,311 18,431 23,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.81% 42.13% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15,873 9,310 14,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,294 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%

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 14 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 14 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 -81 211 £90,000 -18.18% 775
South East -42 126 £67,500 +8.87% 132
East of England +1 92 £65,000 +18.18% 117
North of England -22 61 £41,982 -30.03% 85
South West -85 47 £56,000 +22.07% 72
Midlands -26 27 £37,500 -37.50% 43
Yorkshire -19 26 £37,500 +7.14% 19
West Midlands -20 21 £37,500 -37.50% 25
North West -13 20 £60,000 -2.04% 51
North East -48 15 £52,000 -54.78% 17
East Midlands -31 5 £47,500 +75.93% 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 26 (4.63%) Jupyter
2 11 (1.96%) CMS
3 7 (1.25%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.07%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (4.63%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.14%) Simulink
3 3 (0.53%) Blender
3 3 (0.53%) 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 10 (1.78%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 104 (18.51%) AWS
2 56 (9.96%) Azure
3 29 (5.16%) GCP
4 27 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (2.85%) Google Analytics
6 15 (2.67%) SaaS
7 14 (2.49%) GitHub
8 13 (2.31%) Google Ads
9 10 (1.78%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.25%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.07%) Slack
13 5 (0.89%) Prefect
13 5 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.71%) Vertex AI
15 3 (0.53%) Alation
15 3 (0.53%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.56%) Broadband
2 13 (2.31%) Multicast
3 8 (1.42%) LTE
4 7 (1.25%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.25%) 5G
4 7 (1.25%) GSM
4 7 (1.25%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.25%) RANAP
4 7 (1.25%) SS7
4 7 (1.25%) UMTS
4 7 (1.25%) Wireshark
5 6 (1.07%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.71%) Internet
6 4 (0.71%) Wireless
7 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.36%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
9 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.09%) Metadata
2 21 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.49%) BigQuery
4 13 (2.31%) Big Data
4 13 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.42%) Power BI
7 7 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.07%) GIS
8 6 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.71%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.71%) MySQL
10 4 (0.71%) Redis
10 4 (0.71%) Tableau
11 3 (0.53%) KDB
12 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (12.46%) Git
2 43 (7.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.38%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.02%) JIRA
5 14 (2.49%) GitLab
6 11 (1.96%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.25%) GCC
7 7 (1.25%) GDB
8 4 (0.71%) CMake
9 3 (0.53%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.36%) MLflow
10 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 131 (23.31%) Finance
2 74 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (12.63%) Social Skills
4 50 (8.90%) Retail
5 42 (7.47%) Marketing
6 38 (6.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (5.16%) Banking
7 29 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 27 (4.80%) Electronics
9 21 (3.74%) Aerospace
9 21 (3.74%) Games
10 19 (3.38%) Front Office
11 15 (2.67%) Legal
12 14 (2.49%) Advertising
13 13 (2.31%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.31%) Law
14 11 (1.96%) Automotive
14 11 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.25%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (28.11%) Software Engineer
2 132 (23.49%) Senior
3 108 (19.22%) Developer
4 48 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
5 45 (8.01%) Python Developer
6 42 (7.47%) Lead
7 40 (7.12%) Senior Developer
8 39 (6.94%) Embedded Engineer
9 38 (6.76%) C++ Software Engineer
10 31 (5.52%) Data Scientist
11 26 (4.63%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 21 (3.74%) FPGA Engineer
12 21 (3.74%) Programmer
13 20 (3.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 20 (3.56%) Trainee
13 20 (3.56%) Trainee Programmer
14 19 (3.38%) Python Software Engineer
14 19 (3.38%) Quantitative Developer
14 19 (3.38%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.36%) NumPy
1 47 (8.36%) Pandas
2 33 (5.87%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 29 (5.16%) Streamlit
4 28 (4.98%) PyTorch
4 28 (4.98%) scikit-learn
5 27 (4.80%) React
6 25 (4.45%) Hugging Face
7 24 (4.27%) Matplotlib
8 23 (4.09%) HTML
8 23 (4.09%) TensorFlow
9 19 (3.38%) CSS
10 18 (3.20%) .NET
11 17 (3.02%) FIX Protocol
12 16 (2.85%) Django
13 15 (2.67%) REST
14 13 (2.31%) pytest
15 11 (1.96%) Kafka
16 10 (1.78%) Yocto
17 9 (1.60%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 89 (15.84%) Data Structures
2 44 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.58%) Embedded Systems
4 35 (6.23%) Equities
5 30 (5.34%) FPGA
6 22 (3.91%) VHDL
7 21 (3.74%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.56%) Hedge funds
8 20 (3.56%) Robotics
9 19 (3.38%) Management Information System
10 17 (3.02%) PCIe
11 14 (2.49%) Derivative
11 14 (2.49%) Fixed Income
11 14 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (2.49%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (2.14%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.78%) NVMe
13 10 (1.78%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.78%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 68 (12.10%) Linux
2 14 (2.49%) Windows
3 10 (1.78%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.71%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.71%) Unix
5 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (44.84%) Software Engineering
2 158 (28.11%) AI
3 151 (26.87%) Computer Science
4 135 (24.02%) Machine Learning
5 103 (18.33%) Agile
6 101 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (16.73%) Data Science
8 78 (13.88%) Analytics
9 67 (11.92%) CI/CD
9 67 (11.92%) OOP
10 65 (11.57%) Mathematics
11 64 (11.39%) OO
12 59 (10.50%) Test Automation
13 57 (10.14%) Signal Processing
13 57 (10.14%) Visualisation
14 56 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 55 (9.79%) Mentoring
16 51 (9.07%) SDLC
17 48 (8.54%) Low Latency
18 47 (8.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 318 (56.58%) Python
2 153 (27.22%) C++
3 59 (10.50%) C
4 51 (9.07%) C#
5 41 (7.30%) SQL
6 34 (6.05%) Java
7 26 (4.63%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.27%) MATLAB
9 23 (4.09%) Rust
10 22 (3.91%) JavaScript
11 17 (3.02%) Embedded C++
12 15 (2.67%) Go
13 14 (2.49%) Embedded C
14 12 (2.14%) Assembly Language
15 10 (1.78%) R
16 4 (0.71%) Bash
16 4 (0.71%) VBA
17 3 (0.53%) Fortran
17 3 (0.53%) Julia
17 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (26.16%) Degree
2 65 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 49 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (6.05%) Master's Degree
5 33 (5.87%) SC Cleared
6 32 (5.69%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.80%) DV Cleared
8 23 (4.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 22 (3.91%) PhD
10 16 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.52%) QA
2 12 (2.14%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.14%) GDPR
3 9 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.07%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.07%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.07%) MISRA
5 6 (1.07%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.18%) EMIR
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (9.07%) Docker
2 44 (7.83%) Firmware
3 22 (3.91%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.89%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 29 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.49%) Terraform
3 6 (1.07%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.89%) SCCM
4 5 (0.89%) SCOM
4 5 (0.89%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 50 (8.90%) Google
2 36 (6.41%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.14%) Screaming Frog
4 11 (1.96%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.78%) Altera
5 10 (1.78%) IBM
6 9 (1.60%) Databricks
7 6 (1.07%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.07%) Botify
8 5 (0.89%) Dell
8 5 (0.89%) HP
8 5 (0.89%) McAfee
8 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.89%) VMware
9 4 (0.71%) Foundry
9 4 (0.71%) TikTok
10 3 (0.53%) Rockwell
10 3 (0.53%) Sitebulb
11 2 (0.36%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.36%) MicroStrategy