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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 177 175
Rank change year-on-year -126 -2 +23
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 467 745 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.90% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 4.65% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 303 355 684
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,922 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,625 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -10.96%

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 23,040 16,034 29,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.30% 41.00% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,151 8,392 20,891
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,688 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -38 206 £95,000 -7.32% 103
South East -85 98 £60,000 -3.23% 77
North of England -49 61 £37,500 -47.91% 31
South West -84 40 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Midlands -32 33 £55,000 -8.33% 25
East of England -88 31 £37,500 -42.31% 38
North West -24 30 £37,500 -56.88% 14
West Midlands -21 22 £46,500 -22.50% 9
Yorkshire -49 21 £37,500 -16.67% 9
North East -23 10 £37,500 -63.86% 8
East Midlands -42 10 £75,000 +25.00% 16
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 49 (10.49%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.93%) CMS
4 5 (1.07%) IIS
5 2 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (10.28%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.93%) Simulink
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) CATIA
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.43%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (2.57%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.84%) AWS
2 53 (11.35%) Azure
2 53 (11.35%) Cloud Computing
3 39 (8.35%) GCP
4 14 (3.00%) GitHub
4 14 (3.00%) Google Analytics
5 13 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.14%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (1.28%) SaaS
7 6 (1.28%) Slack
7 6 (1.28%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.07%) Prefect
9 4 (0.86%) Google Ads
10 3 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.43%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.43%) Firebase
11 2 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.43%) Broadband
2 15 (3.21%) Multicast
3 6 (1.28%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.07%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.86%) Internet
5 4 (0.86%) Network Security
6 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.21%) 5G
7 1 (0.21%) Firewall
7 1 (0.21%) IPsec
7 1 (0.21%) MQTT
7 1 (0.21%) RS-422
7 1 (0.21%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.00%) BigQuery
2 25 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.28%) Metadata
4 15 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.00%) Big Data
6 11 (2.36%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.36%) Power BI
7 10 (2.14%) Hadoop
8 9 (1.93%) Tableau
9 6 (1.28%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.86%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.64%) GIS
13 2 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
14 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.21%) Looker
Development Applications
1 68 (14.56%) Visual Studio Code
2 54 (11.56%) Git
3 23 (4.93%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.64%) JIRA
5 16 (3.43%) GitLab
6 3 (0.64%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
General
1 136 (29.12%) Finance
2 69 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (13.70%) Retail
4 56 (11.99%) Social Skills
5 54 (11.56%) Manufacturing
6 35 (7.49%) Marketing
7 30 (6.42%) Front Office
8 23 (4.93%) Electronics
9 22 (4.71%) Games
10 19 (4.07%) Banking
11 15 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.78%) Automotive
13 11 (2.36%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.71%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.28%) Legal
16 5 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.07%) Law
16 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.86%) Advertising
17 4 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (26.98%) Software Engineer
2 108 (23.13%) Senior
3 86 (18.42%) Developer
4 46 (9.85%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (9.85%) Programmer
4 46 (9.85%) Python Developer
5 45 (9.64%) Trainee
5 45 (9.64%) Trainee Programmer
6 44 (9.42%) Senior Software Engineer
7 42 (8.99%) Senior Developer
8 39 (8.35%) C++ Software Engineer
9 24 (5.14%) Python Engineer
10 23 (4.93%) Quantitative Developer
10 23 (4.93%) Senior Python Developer
11 22 (4.71%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 21 (4.50%) FPGA Engineer
12 21 (4.50%) Linux Developer
12 21 (4.50%) Python Software Engineer
13 20 (4.28%) C++ Developer
13 20 (4.28%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.85%) Pandas
2 73 (15.63%) NumPy
3 53 (11.35%) scikit-learn
4 51 (10.92%) Matplotlib
4 51 (10.92%) Streamlit
5 49 (10.49%) Hugging Face
6 46 (9.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 30 (6.42%) Django
8 26 (5.57%) TensorFlow
9 25 (5.35%) PyTorch
10 22 (4.71%) FIX Protocol
11 15 (3.21%) .NET
11 15 (3.21%) pytest
12 14 (3.00%) HTML
13 12 (2.57%) RESTful
14 11 (2.36%) REST
15 10 (2.14%) React
16 9 (1.93%) CSS
17 8 (1.71%) Flask
17 8 (1.71%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 86 (18.42%) Data Structures
2 53 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (8.57%) Equities
4 27 (5.78%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.35%) FPGA
5 25 (5.35%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (4.93%) Hedge funds
6 23 (4.93%) Product Ownership
7 18 (3.85%) Derivative
7 18 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
7 18 (3.85%) PCIe
7 18 (3.85%) VHDL
8 15 (3.21%) Fixed Income
9 13 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
10 12 (2.57%) NVMe
11 11 (2.36%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.71%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.50%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.85%) Linux
2 7 (1.50%) Windows
3 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.64%) Android
5 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.64%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.43%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (43.25%) Software Engineering
2 142 (30.41%) Computer Science
2 142 (30.41%) Machine Learning
3 132 (28.27%) AI
4 91 (19.49%) OOP
5 85 (18.20%) OO
6 81 (17.34%) Visualisation
7 77 (16.49%) Data Science
8 74 (15.85%) Agile
9 73 (15.63%) Analytics
10 70 (14.99%) Workflow
11 65 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (13.28%) LLM
13 56 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (11.56%) Mathematics
15 52 (11.13%) SDLC
16 51 (10.92%) Neural Network
17 50 (10.71%) Customer Service
17 50 (10.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 49 (10.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 299 (64.03%) Python
2 138 (29.55%) C++
3 51 (10.92%) SQL
4 46 (9.85%) C#
5 41 (8.78%) C
6 20 (4.28%) Java
7 18 (3.85%) Rust
8 14 (3.00%) Assembly Language
8 14 (3.00%) Go
8 14 (3.00%) MATLAB
9 12 (2.57%) R
10 9 (1.93%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.28%) Embedded C
11 6 (1.28%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.28%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.07%) Scala
13 4 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.86%) VBA
14 3 (0.64%) Julia
14 3 (0.64%) VC++
Qualifications
1 113 (24.20%) Degree
2 54 (11.56%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (8.99%) Security Cleared
5 38 (8.14%) Master's Degree
6 28 (6.00%) PhD
7 23 (4.93%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.43%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.07%) MBA
11 4 (0.86%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.21%) CEH
13 1 (0.21%) CISM
13 1 (0.21%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) GIAC
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.71%) QA
2 17 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.28%) GDPR
5 5 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.64%) EMIR
7 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (5.78%) Docker
1 27 (5.78%) Firmware
2 12 (2.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 13 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.71%) Terraform
3 6 (1.28%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.07%) SCCM
4 5 (1.07%) SCOM
4 5 (1.07%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 55 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.13%) Google
3 16 (3.43%) Altera
3 16 (3.43%) IBM
4 14 (3.00%) Databricks
5 13 (2.78%) Xilinx
6 9 (1.93%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.28%) Botify
8 5 (1.07%) BT
8 5 (1.07%) Dell
8 5 (1.07%) HP
8 5 (1.07%) McAfee
8 5 (1.07%) VMware
9 3 (0.64%) Ahrefs
9 3 (0.64%) Oracle
9 3 (0.64%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.43%) Thales
11 1 (0.21%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.21%) YouTube