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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 250 212
Rank change year-on-year -86 -38 +67
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 552 524 892
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.21% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 2.90% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 353 236 381
10th Percentile £35,300 £37,087 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +8.15% -13.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £107,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £136,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 27,039 18,071 22,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.14% 41.81% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,613 9,167 11,311
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 26 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 26 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 -123 169 £82,500 -23.26% 1,011
South East -6 149 £70,000 +12.90% 181
East of England +17 119 £65,000 +18.18% 155
North of England -37 46 £52,000 +35.06% 111
South West -67 42 £60,000 +21.83% 106
Midlands -39 27 £67,500 +12.50% 73
Yorkshire -28 22 £32,500 -7.14% 29
West Midlands -29 18 £67,500 +22.73% 44
North East -51 13 £60,000 -47.83% 16
North West -31 11 £60,000 +33.33% 68
East Midlands -27 9 £81,250 +78.57% 29
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 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.09%) SAS
3 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 3 (0.54%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.99%) Simulink
2 4 (0.72%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.54%) Blender
3 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.54%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.18%) CATIA
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.63%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (11.78%) AWS
2 49 (8.88%) Azure
3 24 (4.35%) GCP
4 16 (2.90%) Google Analytics
5 15 (2.72%) GitHub
5 15 (2.72%) Google Ads
6 12 (2.17%) SaaS
7 10 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.45%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.27%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.91%) Vertex AI
10 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (0.72%) Serverless
11 4 (0.72%) Slack
12 3 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.36%) Wireless
2 12 (2.17%) Multicast
3 11 (1.99%) Broadband
3 11 (1.99%) LTE
4 9 (1.63%) 5G
5 7 (1.27%) 3GPP
5 7 (1.27%) GSM
5 7 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (1.27%) RANAP
5 7 (1.27%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.27%) SS7
5 7 (1.27%) UMTS
5 7 (1.27%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.54%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.54%) Internet
6 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.36%) Firewall
8 1 (0.18%) DNS
8 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.62%) Metadata
2 18 (3.26%) Big Data
3 15 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.45%) Power BI
5 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.09%) GIS
6 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.91%) MySQL
6 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.72%) KDB
7 4 (0.72%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.72%) Redis
7 4 (0.72%) Tableau
8 3 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (12.50%) Git
2 20 (3.62%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (3.26%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (2.72%) JIRA
5 14 (2.54%) GitLab
6 10 (1.81%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.27%) GCC
7 7 (1.27%) GDB
8 5 (0.91%) PetaLinux
9 4 (0.72%) CMake
9 4 (0.72%) MLflow
10 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
11 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.18%) QUnit
12 1 (0.18%) Subversion
12 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 93 (16.85%) Finance
2 85 (15.40%) Social Skills
3 59 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (6.70%) Marketing
6 34 (6.16%) Banking
7 30 (5.43%) Electronics
8 28 (5.07%) Aerospace
9 26 (4.71%) Retail
10 16 (2.90%) Advertising
11 14 (2.54%) Front Office
11 14 (2.54%) Law
12 13 (2.36%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.36%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.81%) Legal
14 9 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.45%) Automotive
15 8 (1.45%) Games
15 8 (1.45%) Military
16 7 (1.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 153 (27.72%) Software Engineer
2 124 (22.46%) Senior
3 81 (14.67%) Developer
4 51 (9.24%) Lead
5 46 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 41 (7.43%) Embedded Engineer
7 33 (5.98%) Data Scientist
8 32 (5.80%) C++ Software Engineer
9 28 (5.07%) Python Developer
9 28 (5.07%) Senior Developer
10 26 (4.71%) FPGA Engineer
11 25 (4.53%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 21 (3.80%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 19 (3.44%) Python Software Engineer
14 18 (3.26%) Principal Engineer
14 18 (3.26%) SEO Specialist
15 17 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
16 16 (2.90%) Architect
17 14 (2.54%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.07%) PyTorch
2 27 (4.89%) HTML
2 27 (4.89%) React
3 25 (4.53%) .NET
3 25 (4.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 25 (4.53%) CSS
4 22 (3.99%) TensorFlow
5 16 (2.90%) FIX Protocol
5 16 (2.90%) NumPy
5 16 (2.90%) Pandas
6 15 (2.72%) STL
7 14 (2.54%) Yocto
8 12 (2.17%) pytest
9 11 (1.99%) Kafka
9 11 (1.99%) Terraform
10 9 (1.63%) Node.js
11 8 (1.45%) Django
11 8 (1.45%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.45%) Flask
11 8 (1.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 77 (13.95%) Data Structures
2 46 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 44 (7.97%) FPGA
4 35 (6.34%) Robotics
5 32 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (5.25%) Equities
7 24 (4.35%) VHDL
8 21 (3.80%) PCIe
9 16 (2.90%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.72%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.54%) Fixed Income
11 14 (2.54%) Hedge funds
11 14 (2.54%) Verilog
12 13 (2.36%) Derivative
13 10 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.63%) ASIC
14 9 (1.63%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.63%) Device Driver
14 9 (1.63%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.63%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.96%) Linux
2 18 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
3 17 (3.08%) Windows
4 5 (0.91%) Robot Operating System
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 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.54%) 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 (44.02%) Software Engineering
2 163 (29.53%) AI
3 146 (26.45%) Computer Science
4 139 (25.18%) Machine Learning
5 104 (18.84%) Agile
6 98 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (16.12%) Data Science
8 81 (14.67%) Mathematics
9 73 (13.22%) Analytics
10 68 (12.32%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.51%) Signal Processing
12 54 (9.78%) Mentoring
13 53 (9.60%) Decision-Making
14 50 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (9.06%) Test Automation
15 47 (8.51%) Validation
16 44 (7.97%) Roadmaps
17 42 (7.61%) Low Latency
18 41 (7.43%) Physics
18 41 (7.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 285 (51.63%) Python
2 166 (30.07%) C++
3 67 (12.14%) C
4 61 (11.05%) C#
5 47 (8.51%) MATLAB
5 47 (8.51%) SQL
6 42 (7.61%) Java
7 28 (5.07%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.53%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.99%) Embedded C++
10 19 (3.44%) Embedded C
10 19 (3.44%) Rust
11 11 (1.99%) Go
12 10 (1.81%) Assembly Language
13 9 (1.63%) R
14 5 (0.91%) SystemVerilog
15 4 (0.72%) Fortran
16 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.54%) VBA
17 2 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 166 (30.07%) Degree
2 88 (15.94%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (8.15%) Master's Degree
4 45 (8.15%) SC Cleared
5 32 (5.80%) PhD
6 27 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.54%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.98%) QA
2 13 (2.36%) GDPR
3 12 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.45%) 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 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 3 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.54%) NIST
9 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (8.33%) Docker
2 40 (7.25%) Firmware
3 21 (3.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.09%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.91%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Ceph
7 1 (0.18%) Lustre
7 1 (0.18%) NFS
7 1 (0.18%) Samba
Systems Management
1 30 (5.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) SCCM
2 5 (0.91%) SCOM
2 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (0.72%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 35 (6.34%) Google
2 13 (2.36%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.17%) Xilinx
4 10 (1.81%) Altera
4 10 (1.81%) IBM
4 10 (1.81%) Screaming Frog
5 8 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.09%) Ahrefs
6 6 (1.09%) Thales
7 5 (0.91%) Databricks
7 5 (0.91%) Dell
7 5 (0.91%) HP
7 5 (0.91%) McAfee
7 5 (0.91%) TikTok
7 5 (0.91%) VMware
8 4 (0.72%) Foundry
8 4 (0.72%) Intel
8 4 (0.72%) Sitebulb
9 3 (0.54%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.36%) YouTube