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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 239 199
Rank change year-on-year -86 -40 +85
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 542 567 976
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.30% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 3.09% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 361 249 402
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £111,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +9.52% -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 24,813 18,323 23,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.86% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,321 9,367 13,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -94 193 £85,000 -22.73% 820
South East -50 130 £67,500 +8.87% 156
East of England +21 102 £63,750 +15.91% 110
North of England -26 49 £56,000 +17.89% 75
South West -59 44 £58,000 +17.77% 86
Midlands -38 26 £67,500 +17.39% 56
West Midlands -13 21 £67,500 +17.39% 30
Yorkshire -22 21 £32,500 -7.14% 20
North West -24 15 £60,000 +20.00% 43
North East -50 13 £60,000 -47.83% 15
East Midlands -24 4 £62,500 +131.48% 26
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 7 (1.29%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.29%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.11%) SAS
3 5 (0.92%) CMS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
5 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Simulink
2 7 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) CATIA
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (1.85%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (14.58%) AWS
2 51 (9.41%) Azure
3 25 (4.61%) GCP
4 15 (2.77%) Google Analytics
5 14 (2.58%) SaaS
6 13 (2.40%) GitHub
6 13 (2.40%) Google Ads
7 10 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.48%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.29%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.11%) Slack
11 5 (0.92%) Prefect
11 5 (0.92%) Vertex AI
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.74%) Serverless
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.69%) Broadband
2 12 (2.21%) Multicast
3 8 (1.48%) LTE
4 7 (1.29%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.29%) 5G
4 7 (1.29%) GSM
4 7 (1.29%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.29%) RANAP
4 7 (1.29%) SS7
4 7 (1.29%) UMTS
4 7 (1.29%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.74%) Internet
5 4 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.74%) Wireless
6 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.37%) Firewall
8 1 (0.18%) IPsec
8 1 (0.18%) RS-422
8 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (3.51%) Metadata
3 16 (2.95%) Big Data
4 11 (2.03%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.85%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.48%) Power BI
8 6 (1.11%) GIS
9 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.74%) MySQL
10 4 (0.74%) Redis
10 4 (0.74%) Tableau
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.55%) KDB
12 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (13.10%) Git
2 24 (4.43%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.51%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (2.95%) JIRA
5 14 (2.58%) GitLab
6 10 (1.85%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.29%) GCC
7 7 (1.29%) GDB
8 4 (0.74%) CMake
9 3 (0.55%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.37%) MLflow
10 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 101 (18.63%) Finance
2 66 (12.18%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.27%) Marketing
6 30 (5.54%) Banking
7 27 (4.98%) Electronics
8 24 (4.43%) Retail
9 20 (3.69%) Aerospace
10 16 (2.95%) Front Office
11 15 (2.77%) Games
12 14 (2.58%) Law
13 13 (2.40%) Advertising
13 13 (2.40%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.85%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.66%) Automotive
16 9 (1.66%) Legal
17 7 (1.29%) Investment Banking
18 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (29.70%) Software Engineer
2 125 (23.06%) Senior
3 101 (18.63%) Developer
4 47 (8.67%) Lead
4 47 (8.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 43 (7.93%) Python Developer
6 37 (6.83%) Embedded Engineer
7 35 (6.46%) C++ Software Engineer
7 35 (6.46%) Senior Developer
8 31 (5.72%) Data Scientist
9 27 (4.98%) Python Engineer
10 20 (3.69%) FPGA Engineer
11 19 (3.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 19 (3.51%) Python Software Engineer
11 19 (3.51%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 17 (3.14%) Quantitative Developer
13 16 (2.95%) SEO Specialist
14 15 (2.77%) Senior Python Developer
14 15 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.58%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 29 (5.35%) PyTorch
3 28 (5.17%) NumPy
3 28 (5.17%) Pandas
4 26 (4.80%) React
5 24 (4.43%) TensorFlow
6 23 (4.24%) HTML
7 20 (3.69%) .NET
8 19 (3.51%) CSS
9 16 (2.95%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (2.77%) REST
11 13 (2.40%) Terraform
12 12 (2.21%) Django
12 12 (2.21%) pytest
12 12 (2.21%) STL
13 11 (2.03%) Kafka
14 10 (1.85%) Google JAX
14 10 (1.85%) JAX
14 10 (1.85%) Streamlit
14 10 (1.85%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 83 (15.31%) Data Structures
2 37 (6.83%) Embedded Systems
3 36 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.90%) Equities
5 28 (5.17%) FPGA
6 25 (4.61%) Robotics
7 21 (3.87%) VHDL
8 20 (3.69%) Product Ownership
9 18 (3.32%) Hedge funds
10 17 (3.14%) PCIe
11 15 (2.77%) Management Information System
12 14 (2.58%) Video\Live Streaming
13 13 (2.40%) Derivative
13 13 (2.40%) Fixed Income
14 11 (2.03%) Driving Licence
15 10 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.85%) NVMe
15 10 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.85%) Verilog
16 8 (1.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.81%) Linux
2 15 (2.77%) Windows
3 10 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.55%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (46.49%) Software Engineering
2 148 (27.31%) AI
3 144 (26.57%) Computer Science
4 128 (23.62%) Machine Learning
5 101 (18.63%) Agile
6 90 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (16.42%) Data Science
8 73 (13.47%) Analytics
9 68 (12.55%) Mathematics
10 66 (12.18%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.70%) Test Automation
12 56 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (10.15%) Mentoring
13 55 (10.15%) Signal Processing
14 49 (9.04%) Decision-Making
15 47 (8.67%) Deep Learning
15 47 (8.67%) SDLC
15 47 (8.67%) Validation
16 46 (8.49%) Low Latency
16 46 (8.49%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 294 (54.24%) Python
2 152 (28.04%) C++
3 56 (10.33%) C
4 54 (9.96%) C#
5 43 (7.93%) SQL
6 38 (7.01%) Java
7 26 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.43%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.43%) MATLAB
9 21 (3.87%) Rust
10 16 (2.95%) Embedded C++
10 16 (2.95%) Go
11 13 (2.40%) Embedded C
12 12 (2.21%) Assembly Language
13 9 (1.66%) R
14 3 (0.55%) Fortran
14 3 (0.55%) Julia
14 3 (0.55%) VBA
15 2 (0.37%) Bash
15 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (27.12%) Degree
2 69 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (6.46%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.09%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.80%) DV Cleared
7 24 (4.43%) PhD
8 16 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (2.21%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.46%) QA
2 12 (2.21%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.03%) GDPR
4 9 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (1.11%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.11%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.11%) MISRA
6 6 (1.11%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (9.41%) Docker
2 43 (7.93%) Firmware
3 22 (4.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.11%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.92%) SCCM
3 5 (0.92%) SCOM
3 5 (0.92%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 38 (7.01%) Google
2 16 (2.95%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.21%) Screaming Frog
4 11 (2.03%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.85%) Altera
5 10 (1.85%) IBM
6 9 (1.66%) Databricks
7 7 (1.29%) Ahrefs
8 5 (0.92%) Dell
8 5 (0.92%) HP
8 5 (0.92%) McAfee
8 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.92%) TikTok
8 5 (0.92%) VMware
9 4 (0.74%) Foundry
9 4 (0.74%) Sitebulb
10 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
12 1 (0.18%) YouTube