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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 247 199
Rank change year-on-year -78 -48 +85
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 549 543 957
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 1.25% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.98% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 361 238 391
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £101,250
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 25,713 18,211 22,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.70% 41.98% 32.14%
Number of salaries quoted 16,889 9,231 12,112
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,080
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
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 12 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 12 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 -96 188 £85,000 -20.93% 582
South East -27 141 £70,000 +12.90% 120
East of England +14 105 £63,750 +15.91% 89
North of England -30 47 £52,000 +15.56% 51
South West -66 45 £60,000 +21.83% 67
Midlands -31 25 £67,500 +12.50% 41
West Midlands -28 21 £67,500 +17.39% 23
Yorkshire -35 21 £32,500 -7.14% 13
North West -19 13 £60,000 +33.33% 27
North East -52 13 £60,000 -47.83% 12
East Midlands -38 4 £81,250 +200.93% 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 9 (1.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.09%) SAS
3 5 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 3 (0.55%) Jupyter
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%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (2.73%) Simulink
2 3 (0.55%) Blender
2 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.55%) Maya
3 2 (0.36%) CATIA
3 2 (0.36%) Mathematica
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (2.00%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (13.30%) AWS
2 49 (8.93%) Azure
3 24 (4.37%) GCP
4 15 (2.73%) Google Analytics
5 14 (2.55%) GitHub
6 13 (2.37%) Google Ads
6 13 (2.37%) SaaS
7 8 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
9 5 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (0.91%) Slack
9 5 (0.91%) Vertex AI
9 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.73%) Prefect
10 4 (0.73%) Serverless
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.28%) Broadband
2 13 (2.37%) Multicast
3 9 (1.64%) LTE
3 9 (1.64%) Wireless
4 8 (1.46%) 5G
5 7 (1.28%) 3GPP
5 7 (1.28%) GSM
5 7 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (1.28%) RANAP
5 7 (1.28%) SS7
5 7 (1.28%) UMTS
5 7 (1.28%) Wireshark
6 6 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.55%) Internet
7 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.36%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.18%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
9 1 (0.18%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (3.46%) Metadata
3 17 (3.10%) Big Data
4 10 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.46%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.46%) Power BI
6 7 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.09%) GIS
8 5 (0.91%) MySQL
8 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.73%) Redis
9 4 (0.73%) Tableau
10 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.55%) KDB
10 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 72 (13.11%) Git
2 20 (3.64%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
3 16 (2.91%) JIRA
4 14 (2.55%) GitLab
5 10 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.28%) GCC
6 7 (1.28%) GDB
7 4 (0.73%) CMake
7 4 (0.73%) MLflow
8 3 (0.55%) PetaLinux
8 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 96 (17.49%) Finance
2 73 (13.30%) Social Skills
3 61 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.19%) Marketing
6 32 (5.83%) Banking
7 25 (4.55%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.55%) Electronics
8 23 (4.19%) Retail
9 15 (2.73%) Advertising
9 15 (2.73%) Front Office
10 14 (2.55%) Games
10 14 (2.55%) Law
11 13 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.64%) Legal
14 8 (1.46%) Automotive
15 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 160 (29.14%) Software Engineer
2 121 (22.04%) Senior
3 93 (16.94%) Developer
4 49 (8.93%) Lead
5 47 (8.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 40 (7.29%) Python Developer
7 37 (6.74%) Embedded Engineer
8 35 (6.38%) C++ Software Engineer
9 32 (5.83%) Data Scientist
10 31 (5.65%) Senior Developer
11 28 (5.10%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.01%) FPGA Engineer
13 20 (3.64%) Python Software Engineer
14 19 (3.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 19 (3.46%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 16 (2.91%) SEO Specialist
16 15 (2.73%) Quantitative Developer
16 15 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
17 14 (2.55%) Architect
17 14 (2.55%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.83%) PyTorch
2 30 (5.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 27 (4.92%) React
4 25 (4.55%) TensorFlow
5 24 (4.37%) HTML
5 24 (4.37%) NumPy
5 24 (4.37%) Pandas
6 23 (4.19%) .NET
7 20 (3.64%) CSS
8 17 (3.10%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (2.55%) REST
10 13 (2.37%) pytest
10 13 (2.37%) STL
11 12 (2.19%) Terraform
12 11 (2.00%) Kafka
13 10 (1.82%) Django
13 10 (1.82%) Google JAX
13 10 (1.82%) JAX
13 10 (1.82%) Yocto
14 9 (1.64%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (14.75%) Data Structures
2 39 (7.10%) Embedded Systems
3 34 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.83%) Equities
4 32 (5.83%) FPGA
5 28 (5.10%) Robotics
6 22 (4.01%) VHDL
7 21 (3.83%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.64%) PCIe
9 17 (3.10%) Hedge funds
10 14 (2.55%) Derivative
10 14 (2.55%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.55%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.19%) Video\Live Streaming
12 11 (2.00%) NVMe
12 11 (2.00%) Verilog
13 10 (1.82%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (11.29%) 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 2 (0.36%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (46.45%) Software Engineering
2 155 (28.23%) AI
3 147 (26.78%) Computer Science
4 136 (24.77%) Machine Learning
5 103 (18.76%) Agile
6 93 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (16.39%) Data Science
8 79 (14.39%) Mathematics
9 73 (13.30%) Analytics
10 66 (12.02%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.56%) Signal Processing
12 57 (10.38%) Mentoring
13 56 (10.20%) Test Automation
14 55 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (9.29%) Decision-Making
16 49 (8.93%) Deep Learning
16 49 (8.93%) Validation
17 46 (8.38%) SDLC
18 45 (8.20%) Low Latency
19 44 (8.01%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 296 (53.92%) Python
2 159 (28.96%) C++
3 59 (10.75%) C
4 58 (10.56%) C#
5 47 (8.56%) SQL
6 40 (7.29%) Java
7 32 (5.83%) MATLAB
8 25 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 20 (3.64%) Rust
10 16 (2.91%) Embedded C++
11 15 (2.73%) Go
12 13 (2.37%) Assembly Language
12 13 (2.37%) Embedded C
13 9 (1.64%) R
14 3 (0.55%) Fortran
14 3 (0.55%) Julia
14 3 (0.55%) VBA
15 2 (0.36%) Bash
15 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 155 (28.23%) Degree
2 77 (14.03%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (7.10%) Master's Degree
4 39 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 30 (5.46%) PhD
6 27 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.46%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) CISSP
11 1 (0.18%) HND
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.74%) QA
2 12 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.00%) GDPR
4 8 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.09%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.09%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.09%) MISRA
5 6 (1.09%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
8 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (9.11%) Docker
2 42 (7.65%) Firmware
3 23 (4.19%) 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 29 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) Kubeflow
2 5 (0.91%) SCCM
2 5 (0.91%) SCOM
2 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (6.56%) Google
2 12 (2.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.19%) Screaming Frog
3 11 (2.00%) Altera
3 11 (2.00%) Xilinx
4 10 (1.82%) IBM
5 8 (1.46%) Databricks
6 7 (1.28%) Ahrefs
6 7 (1.28%) OpenAI
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 (0.73%) Foundry
8 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
8 4 (0.73%) Thales
9 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.36%) MathWorks
10 2 (0.36%) MicroStrategy