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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 235 207
Rank change year-on-year -78 -28 +77
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 549 571 980
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.31% 1.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.23% 3.11% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 361 253 406
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £110,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,500 £99,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +7.14% -13.10%

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 24,574 18,363 23,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.98% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,136 9,344 14,036
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,981 £42,139
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 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%

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 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 23 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 -74 204 £90,000 -18.18% 60
South East -37 127 £67,500 +8.87% 76
East of England +11 99 £65,000 +18.18% 44
North of England -29 51 £56,000 +12.00% 40
South West -58 44 £58,000 +26.43% 28
Midlands -29 26 £46,500 -22.50% 31
Yorkshire -28 22 £37,500 +7.14% 14
West Midlands -21 20 £46,500 -22.50% 11
North West -19 16 £60,625 +21.25% 13
North East -46 13 £60,000 -47.83% 15
East Midlands -33 5 £47,500 +75.93% 20
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 10 (1.82%) CMS
1 10 (1.82%) Jupyter
2 7 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.09%) SAS
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (2.19%) Simulink
2 10 (1.82%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) CATIA
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 85 (15.48%) AWS
2 55 (10.02%) Azure
3 27 (4.92%) GCP
4 15 (2.73%) SaaS
5 14 (2.55%) GitHub
5 14 (2.55%) Google Analytics
6 13 (2.37%) Google Ads
7 11 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (1.82%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.09%) Slack
11 5 (0.91%) Prefect
11 5 (0.91%) Vertex AI
11 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.64%) Broadband
2 13 (2.37%) Multicast
3 8 (1.46%) LTE
4 7 (1.28%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.28%) 5G
4 7 (1.28%) GSM
4 7 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.28%) RANAP
4 7 (1.28%) SS7
4 7 (1.28%) UMTS
4 7 (1.28%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.73%) Internet
5 4 (0.73%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.73%) Wireless
6 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.36%) Firewall
8 1 (0.18%) IPsec
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.64%) Metadata
1 20 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (2.55%) Big Data
3 12 (2.19%) BigQuery
4 11 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (2.00%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.46%) Power BI
6 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.09%) GIS
8 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.73%) MySQL
9 4 (0.73%) Redis
9 4 (0.73%) Tableau
10 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.55%) KDB
11 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (12.93%) Git
2 27 (4.92%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.46%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.10%) JIRA
5 14 (2.55%) GitLab
6 10 (1.82%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.28%) GCC
7 7 (1.28%) GDB
8 4 (0.73%) CMake
9 3 (0.55%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.55%) 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
1 113 (20.58%) Finance
2 72 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 71 (12.93%) Social Skills
4 39 (7.10%) Marketing
5 37 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.83%) Retail
7 30 (5.46%) Banking
8 27 (4.92%) Electronics
9 21 (3.83%) Games
10 20 (3.64%) Aerospace
11 18 (3.28%) Front Office
12 15 (2.73%) Legal
13 14 (2.55%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.37%) Law
14 13 (2.37%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.19%) Advertising
16 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.64%) Automotive
18 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
19 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (28.96%) Software Engineer
2 129 (23.50%) Senior
3 105 (19.13%) Developer
4 48 (8.74%) Senior Software Engineer
5 44 (8.01%) Python Developer
6 43 (7.83%) Lead
7 38 (6.92%) Senior Developer
8 37 (6.74%) Embedded Engineer
9 36 (6.56%) C++ Software Engineer
10 31 (5.65%) Data Scientist
11 26 (4.74%) Python Engineer
12 20 (3.64%) FPGA Engineer
13 19 (3.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 19 (3.46%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (3.46%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 18 (3.28%) Quantitative Developer
15 16 (2.91%) Senior Python Developer
15 16 (2.91%) SEO Specialist
16 15 (2.73%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
16 15 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 31 (5.65%) NumPy
2 31 (5.65%) Pandas
3 30 (5.46%) PyTorch
4 26 (4.74%) React
5 25 (4.55%) TensorFlow
6 23 (4.19%) HTML
7 19 (3.46%) CSS
8 18 (3.28%) .NET
9 17 (3.10%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (2.73%) REST
11 14 (2.55%) Django
12 13 (2.37%) pytest
12 13 (2.37%) Streamlit
12 13 (2.37%) Terraform
13 12 (2.19%) scikit-learn
14 11 (2.00%) Kafka
15 10 (1.82%) Google JAX
15 10 (1.82%) JAX
15 10 (1.82%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.66%) Data Structures
2 40 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.74%) Embedded Systems
4 34 (6.19%) Equities
5 28 (5.10%) FPGA
6 23 (4.19%) Robotics
7 21 (3.83%) VHDL
8 20 (3.64%) Product Ownership
9 19 (3.46%) Hedge funds
10 18 (3.28%) Management Information System
11 17 (3.10%) PCIe
12 14 (2.55%) Derivative
12 14 (2.55%) Fixed Income
12 14 (2.55%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.19%) Driving Licence
13 12 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.82%) NVMe
14 10 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
14 10 (1.82%) Verilog
15 9 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (12.02%) Linux
2 14 (2.55%) Windows
3 10 (1.82%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (46.08%) Software Engineering
2 149 (27.14%) AI
3 148 (26.96%) Computer Science
4 127 (23.13%) Machine Learning
5 103 (18.76%) Agile
6 99 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (16.76%) Data Science
8 74 (13.48%) Analytics
9 67 (12.20%) Mathematics
10 66 (12.02%) CI/CD
11 59 (10.75%) Test Automation
12 55 (10.02%) Signal Processing
13 54 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (9.84%) Mentoring
14 50 (9.11%) OOP
14 50 (9.11%) SDLC
15 49 (8.93%) Decision-Making
16 48 (8.74%) Low Latency
17 47 (8.56%) Deep Learning
18 46 (8.38%) OO
Programming Languages
1 303 (55.19%) Python
2 150 (27.32%) C++
3 56 (10.20%) C
4 52 (9.47%) C#
5 42 (7.65%) SQL
6 36 (6.56%) Java
7 26 (4.74%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.37%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.37%) MATLAB
9 22 (4.01%) Rust
10 16 (2.91%) Embedded C++
10 16 (2.91%) Go
11 13 (2.37%) Embedded C
12 12 (2.19%) Assembly Language
13 10 (1.82%) R
14 4 (0.73%) Bash
14 4 (0.73%) VBA
15 3 (0.55%) Fortran
15 3 (0.55%) Julia
16 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (26.96%) Degree
2 69 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.01%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.74%) DV Cleared
7 24 (4.37%) PhD
8 16 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (2.73%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
11 7 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 32 (5.83%) QA
2 12 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.00%) GDPR
4 9 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (1.09%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.09%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.09%) MISRA
6 6 (1.09%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.18%) EMIR
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (9.29%) Docker
2 43 (7.83%) Firmware
3 22 (4.01%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.09%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.91%) SCCM
3 5 (0.91%) SCOM
3 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 46 (8.38%) Google
2 20 (3.64%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.19%) Screaming Frog
4 11 (2.00%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.82%) Altera
5 10 (1.82%) IBM
6 9 (1.64%) Databricks
7 6 (1.09%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.09%) Botify
8 5 (0.91%) Dell
8 5 (0.91%) HP
8 5 (0.91%) McAfee
8 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.91%) VMware
9 4 (0.73%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
9 4 (0.73%) TikTok
10 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.36%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.36%) MicroStrategy