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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 188 167
Rank change year-on-year -111 -21 +26
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 477 731 1,404
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.87% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 4.35% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 318 343 684
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £38,825
25th Percentile £42,593 £52,000 £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 £91,250 £90,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £119,000 £108,500
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 21,809 16,800 29,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.82% 42.90% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,469 8,291 20,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £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 £81,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16 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 16 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 -33 205 £95,000 -10.59% 104
South East -71 102 £60,000 -4.00% 64
North of England -25 62 £37,500 -49.66% 38
South West -74 42 £60,000 -11.11% 34
East of England -73 37 £37,500 -41.86% 40
Midlands -30 31 £55,000 -8.33% 25
North West -6 30 £37,500 -57.70% 18
West Midlands -37 20 £46,500 -22.50% 8
Yorkshire -47 20 £37,500 -28.57% 14
North East -33 12 £37,500 -63.86% 6
East Midlands -36 10 £75,000 +25.00% 17
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 (10.27%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.89%) CMS
4 6 (1.26%) SAS
5 5 (1.05%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (10.06%) Chatbot
2 11 (2.31%) Simulink
3 2 (0.42%) CATIA
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.42%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 117 (24.53%) AWS
2 54 (11.32%) Azure
3 53 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 37 (7.76%) GCP
5 15 (3.14%) Google Analytics
6 14 (2.94%) GitHub
6 14 (2.94%) SaaS
7 11 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.10%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.26%) Slack
9 6 (1.26%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.05%) Prefect
11 4 (0.84%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (0.42%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.42%) Firebase
13 2 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.19%) Broadband
2 16 (3.35%) Multicast
3 6 (1.26%) 5G
3 6 (1.26%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.05%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.84%) Internet
5 4 (0.84%) Network Security
6 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.21%) Firewall
8 1 (0.21%) IPsec
8 1 (0.21%) MQTT
8 1 (0.21%) RS-422
8 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.66%) BigQuery
2 25 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.19%) Metadata
4 15 (3.14%) Big Data
5 14 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.10%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.10%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.89%) Power BI
8 7 (1.47%) Tableau
9 6 (1.26%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.84%) GIS
11 4 (0.84%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
14 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (14.26%) Visual Studio Code
2 54 (11.32%) Git
3 20 (4.19%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (3.77%) JIRA
5 16 (3.35%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) MLflow
6 2 (0.42%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
General
1 136 (28.51%) Finance
2 70 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (13.63%) Retail
4 58 (12.16%) Social Skills
5 55 (11.53%) Manufacturing
6 34 (7.13%) Marketing
7 24 (5.03%) Front Office
8 22 (4.61%) Electronics
8 22 (4.61%) Games
9 19 (3.98%) Banking
10 14 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.73%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.73%) Automotive
12 8 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.26%) Legal
14 5 (1.05%) Law
14 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.84%) Advertising
15 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (28.09%) Software Engineer
2 114 (23.90%) Senior
3 87 (18.24%) Developer
4 48 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 46 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 46 (9.64%) Programmer
6 45 (9.43%) Python Developer
6 45 (9.43%) Trainee
6 45 (9.43%) Trainee Programmer
7 41 (8.60%) Senior Developer
8 39 (8.18%) C++ Software Engineer
9 26 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 23 (4.82%) FPGA Engineer
11 22 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
12 21 (4.40%) Lead
12 21 (4.40%) Quantitative Developer
12 21 (4.40%) Senior Python Developer
13 20 (4.19%) Linux Developer
13 20 (4.19%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 19 (3.98%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.51%) Pandas
2 73 (15.30%) NumPy
3 54 (11.32%) Streamlit
4 53 (11.11%) scikit-learn
5 51 (10.69%) Matplotlib
6 49 (10.27%) Hugging Face
7 45 (9.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 28 (5.87%) Django
9 24 (5.03%) PyTorch
9 24 (5.03%) TensorFlow
10 20 (4.19%) FIX Protocol
11 18 (3.77%) .NET
12 16 (3.35%) pytest
13 15 (3.14%) HTML
14 12 (2.52%) React
14 12 (2.52%) RESTful
15 10 (2.10%) CSS
15 10 (2.10%) REST
16 9 (1.89%) .NET Core
17 8 (1.68%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 87 (18.24%) Data Structures
2 52 (10.90%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (7.76%) Equities
4 29 (6.08%) FPGA
5 25 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (5.24%) Management Information System
6 24 (5.03%) Embedded Systems
6 24 (5.03%) Product Ownership
7 22 (4.61%) Hedge funds
8 20 (4.19%) PCIe
8 20 (4.19%) VHDL
9 18 (3.77%) Derivative
10 16 (3.35%) Fixed Income
11 14 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (2.52%) NVMe
13 9 (1.89%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.89%) Robotics
14 8 (1.68%) Cloud Native
15 7 (1.47%) Driving Licence
15 7 (1.47%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.79%) Linux
2 7 (1.47%) Windows
3 5 (1.05%) Robot Operating System
3 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) Android
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (45.28%) Software Engineering
2 147 (30.82%) Computer Science
3 146 (30.61%) Machine Learning
4 139 (29.14%) AI
5 92 (19.29%) OOP
6 85 (17.82%) Visualisation
7 83 (17.40%) OO
8 81 (16.98%) Analytics
9 79 (16.56%) Agile
9 79 (16.56%) Data Science
10 71 (14.88%) Workflow
11 66 (13.84%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (12.79%) LLM
13 57 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 56 (11.74%) SDLC
15 54 (11.32%) Mathematics
16 50 (10.48%) Neural Network
16 50 (10.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 49 (10.27%) Customer Service
17 49 (10.27%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 306 (64.15%) Python
2 140 (29.35%) C++
3 51 (10.69%) SQL
4 47 (9.85%) C#
5 45 (9.43%) C
6 20 (4.19%) Java
7 19 (3.98%) Rust
8 18 (3.77%) MATLAB
9 15 (3.14%) Go
10 14 (2.94%) Assembly Language
11 11 (2.31%) R
11 11 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.89%) Embedded C
12 9 (1.89%) Embedded C++
13 7 (1.47%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.05%) Scala
15 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.63%) Julia
16 3 (0.63%) VBA
17 2 (0.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 116 (24.32%) Degree
2 55 (11.53%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (9.01%) Security Cleared
5 38 (7.97%) Master's Degree
6 27 (5.66%) PhD
7 22 (4.61%) SC Cleared
8 18 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.05%) MBA
11 4 (0.84%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.82%) QA
2 15 (3.14%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 5 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.05%) GDPR
5 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.42%) EMIR
7 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 30 (6.29%) Firmware
2 27 (5.66%) Docker
3 12 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.10%) Terraform
3 6 (1.26%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.05%) SCCM
4 5 (1.05%) SCOM
4 5 (1.05%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 55 (11.53%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.90%) Google
3 16 (3.35%) Altera
4 14 (2.94%) Databricks
5 13 (2.73%) IBM
5 13 (2.73%) Xilinx
6 10 (2.10%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.26%) Botify
8 5 (1.05%) BT
8 5 (1.05%) Dell
8 5 (1.05%) HP
8 5 (1.05%) McAfee
8 5 (1.05%) VMware
9 4 (0.84%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.63%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle
12 1 (0.21%) MathWorks
12 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.21%) Thales
12 1 (0.21%) YouTube