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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 247 213
Rank change year-on-year -93 -34 +59
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 548 525 912
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.22% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.04% 2.91% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 350 236 379
10th Percentile £35,225 £37,424 £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 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £102,000
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 26,822 18,053 22,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.02% 41.93% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17,454 9,177 11,327
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £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% -7.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 24 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 24 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 -112 175 £82,500 -23.26% 971
South East -27 146 £70,000 +12.90% 173
East of England +10 113 £64,000 +16.36% 144
North of England -38 46 £52,000 +35.06% 106
South West -68 42 £60,000 -4.12% 108
Midlands -41 26 £67,500 +12.50% 73
Yorkshire -24 22 £32,500 -7.14% 27
West Midlands -37 18 £67,500 +22.73% 44
North East -54 13 £60,000 -47.83% 17
North West -28 11 £60,000 +33.33% 63
East Midlands -25 8 £95,000 +108.79% 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 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.09%) SAS
3 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 3 (0.55%) 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 19 (3.47%) Simulink
2 4 (0.73%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) CATIA
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.64%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.68%) AWS
2 49 (8.94%) Azure
3 24 (4.38%) GCP
4 17 (3.10%) Google Analytics
5 16 (2.92%) GitHub
6 15 (2.74%) Google Ads
7 12 (2.19%) SaaS
8 10 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.46%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
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
12 4 (0.73%) Slack
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.37%) Multicast
2 12 (2.19%) Wireless
3 11 (2.01%) Broadband
4 10 (1.82%) LTE
5 9 (1.64%) 5G
6 7 (1.28%) 3GPP
6 7 (1.28%) GSM
6 7 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (1.28%) RANAP
6 7 (1.28%) Software-Defined Radio
6 7 (1.28%) SS7
6 7 (1.28%) UMTS
6 7 (1.28%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.36%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) DHCP
9 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.65%) Metadata
2 18 (3.28%) Big Data
3 15 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.46%) 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 (0.73%) 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 (0.36%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (12.59%) Git
2 20 (3.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.47%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (2.92%) 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
8 4 (0.73%) MLflow
8 4 (0.73%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) QUnit
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 94 (17.15%) Finance
2 85 (15.51%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (6.75%) Marketing
6 35 (6.39%) Banking
7 28 (5.11%) Aerospace
8 27 (4.93%) Electronics
8 27 (4.93%) Retail
9 16 (2.92%) Advertising
10 14 (2.55%) Front Office
10 14 (2.55%) Law
11 13 (2.37%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.82%) Legal
13 8 (1.46%) Automotive
13 8 (1.46%) Games
14 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 152 (27.74%) Software Engineer
2 121 (22.08%) Senior
3 82 (14.96%) Developer
4 51 (9.31%) Lead
5 46 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
6 40 (7.30%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (6.20%) Data Scientist
8 33 (6.02%) C++ Software Engineer
9 29 (5.29%) Senior Developer
10 28 (5.11%) Python Developer
11 25 (4.56%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.01%) FPGA Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 20 (3.65%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 19 (3.47%) Python Software Engineer
15 18 (3.28%) SEO Specialist
16 17 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
17 16 (2.92%) Architect
17 16 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
18 14 (2.55%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.11%) PyTorch
2 27 (4.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (4.93%) HTML
3 26 (4.74%) React
4 25 (4.56%) .NET
4 25 (4.56%) CSS
5 22 (4.01%) TensorFlow
6 17 (3.10%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (2.92%) NumPy
7 16 (2.92%) Pandas
8 14 (2.55%) STL
9 13 (2.37%) pytest
9 13 (2.37%) Yocto
10 11 (2.01%) Kafka
10 11 (2.01%) Terraform
11 9 (1.64%) Node.js
12 8 (1.46%) Django
12 8 (1.46%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.46%) Flask
12 8 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 78 (14.23%) Data Structures
2 43 (7.85%) Embedded Systems
3 38 (6.93%) FPGA
4 34 (6.20%) Robotics
5 33 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (5.47%) Equities
7 21 (3.83%) VHDL
8 19 (3.47%) PCIe
9 16 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.74%) Fixed Income
10 15 (2.74%) Management Information System
11 14 (2.55%) Derivative
11 14 (2.55%) Hedge funds
12 12 (2.19%) Verilog
13 10 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.64%) ASIC
14 9 (1.64%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.64%) Driving Licence
14 9 (1.64%) NVMe
15 8 (1.46%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.68%) Linux
2 16 (2.92%) Windows
3 15 (2.74%) 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
1 244 (44.53%) Software Engineering
2 160 (29.20%) AI
3 146 (26.64%) Computer Science
4 136 (24.82%) Machine Learning
5 105 (19.16%) Agile
6 99 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (16.24%) Data Science
8 82 (14.96%) Mathematics
9 73 (13.32%) Analytics
10 68 (12.41%) CI/CD
11 55 (10.04%) Signal Processing
12 54 (9.85%) Decision-Making
12 54 (9.85%) Mentoring
13 50 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (9.12%) Test Automation
14 47 (8.58%) Validation
15 43 (7.85%) Low Latency
15 43 (7.85%) Roadmaps
16 42 (7.66%) SDLC
17 40 (7.30%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 285 (52.01%) Python
2 163 (29.74%) C++
3 63 (11.50%) C
4 61 (11.13%) C#
5 48 (8.76%) SQL
6 42 (7.66%) Java
6 42 (7.66%) MATLAB
7 27 (4.93%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.38%) TypeScript
9 20 (3.65%) Embedded C++
10 19 (3.47%) Rust
11 17 (3.10%) Embedded C
12 10 (1.82%) Assembly Language
12 10 (1.82%) Go
13 9 (1.64%) R
14 4 (0.73%) Fortran
15 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
15 3 (0.55%) VBA
16 2 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 162 (29.56%) Degree
2 84 (15.33%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (8.03%) Master's Degree
5 43 (7.85%) SC Cleared
6 31 (5.66%) PhD
7 27 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.64%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.46%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.55%) CISSP
12 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.20%) QA
2 13 (2.37%) GDPR
3 12 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.64%) 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 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.55%) NIST
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (8.39%) Docker
2 40 (7.30%) Firmware
3 21 (3.83%) 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 (0.55%) 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 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) SCCM
2 5 (0.91%) SCOM
2 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (0.73%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 35 (6.39%) Google
2 13 (2.37%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.01%) IBM
3 11 (2.01%) Screaming Frog
4 10 (1.82%) Xilinx
5 9 (1.64%) Altera
6 8 (1.46%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.28%) Ahrefs
8 6 (1.09%) 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 (0.36%) Intel
12 2 (0.36%) YouTube