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 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 151 200
Rank change year-on-year -172 +49 -38
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 384 769 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 2.02% 1.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 5.17% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 225 387 629
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -13.33%

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 20,661 14,883 26,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.10% 39.05% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,634 8,023 19,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,028 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.95% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -28 189 £100,000 -1.23% 126
South East -130 55 £67,250 +7.60% 97
North of England -58 47 £37,500 -47.91% 61
South West -97 31 £40,792 -37.24% 52
Midlands -34 30 £50,000 -16.67% 49
North West -19 28 £37,500 -56.88% 31
East of England -87 26 £42,500 -44.08% 58
West Midlands -5 18 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Yorkshire -45 13 £37,500 -28.57% 18
East Midlands -57 11 £75,000 +25.00% 28
North East -18 6 £37,500 -37.50% 13
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 48 (12.50%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.34%) CMS
4 6 (1.56%) Kinematics
5 5 (1.30%) IIS
6 2 (0.52%) Confluence
7 1 (0.26%) Apache
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (12.50%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.04%) Simulink
3 3 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.78%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.78%) Final Cut Pro
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.52%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (1.82%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.04%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.26%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 108 (28.13%) AWS
2 52 (13.54%) Cloud Computing
3 48 (12.50%) Azure
4 38 (9.90%) GCP
5 16 (4.17%) GitHub
6 14 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.13%) Google Analytics
8 11 (2.86%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (1.82%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
11 4 (1.04%) Prefect
11 4 (1.04%) SaaS
11 4 (1.04%) Slack
12 3 (0.78%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.78%) Canva
12 3 (0.78%) Firebase
13 2 (0.52%) dbt
13 2 (0.52%) Google Docs
13 2 (0.52%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.39%) Broadband
1 13 (3.39%) Multicast
2 8 (2.08%) Software-Defined Radio
3 6 (1.56%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.04%) Network Security
6 2 (0.52%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) IPsec
7 1 (0.26%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.51%) BigQuery
2 22 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (4.95%) Metadata
4 14 (3.65%) Big Data
5 13 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.13%) Power BI
7 11 (2.86%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.60%) Hadoop
8 10 (2.60%) Tableau
9 6 (1.56%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.78%) Looker
13 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.26%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.26%) MySQL
13 1 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (13.28%) Visual Studio Code
2 28 (7.29%) Git
3 17 (4.43%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (4.17%) JIRA
5 4 (1.04%) MLflow
6 3 (0.78%) GitLab
7 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 145 (37.76%) Finance
2 74 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 72 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (16.41%) Retail
5 53 (13.80%) Manufacturing
6 43 (11.20%) Marketing
7 34 (8.85%) Front Office
8 29 (7.55%) Electronics
9 28 (7.29%) Games
10 19 (4.95%) Banking
11 14 (3.65%) Legal
12 13 (3.39%) Automotive
12 13 (3.39%) Law
13 12 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (2.60%) Financial Institution
15 10 (2.60%) Public Sector
16 5 (1.30%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (20.57%) Senior
2 74 (19.27%) Software Engineer
3 66 (17.19%) Developer
4 46 (11.98%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (11.98%) Programmer
5 45 (11.72%) Trainee
5 45 (11.72%) Trainee Programmer
6 33 (8.59%) Senior Developer
7 30 (7.81%) C++ Software Engineer
8 29 (7.55%) Lead
8 29 (7.55%) Python Developer
9 23 (5.99%) Quantitative Developer
9 23 (5.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (5.21%) Senior Python Developer
10 20 (5.21%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 19 (4.95%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 19 (4.95%) Linux Developer
11 19 (4.95%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 19 (4.95%) Senior C++ Developer
11 19 (4.95%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (16.41%) Pandas
2 62 (16.15%) NumPy
3 56 (14.58%) scikit-learn
4 51 (13.28%) Matplotlib
5 50 (13.02%) Streamlit
6 49 (12.76%) Hugging Face
7 38 (9.90%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 29 (7.55%) Django
8 29 (7.55%) TensorFlow
9 24 (6.25%) PyTorch
10 23 (5.99%) FIX Protocol
11 15 (3.91%) .NET
12 13 (3.39%) pytest
12 13 (3.39%) React
12 13 (3.39%) REST
13 12 (3.13%) RESTful
14 9 (2.34%) HTML
15 8 (2.08%) Kafka
16 7 (1.82%) Flask
16 7 (1.82%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.79%) Data Structures
2 46 (11.98%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (10.42%) Equities
4 28 (7.29%) Management Information System
5 25 (6.51%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.47%) Hedge funds
7 19 (4.95%) Derivative
8 17 (4.43%) Cloud Native
9 16 (4.17%) FPGA
10 15 (3.91%) Product Ownership
11 14 (3.65%) Fixed Income
12 12 (3.13%) Social Media
13 11 (2.86%) PCIe
13 11 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (2.60%) VHDL
14 10 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
15 9 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
16 8 (2.08%) 3D Graphics
16 8 (2.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.24%) Linux
2 4 (1.04%) Android
2 4 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.78%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (0.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (39.58%) AI
2 148 (38.54%) Machine Learning
3 141 (36.72%) Software Engineering
4 116 (30.21%) Computer Science
5 85 (22.14%) Analytics
5 85 (22.14%) OOP
6 80 (20.83%) OO
7 78 (20.31%) Visualisation
8 73 (19.01%) Data Science
9 70 (18.23%) Workflow
10 67 (17.45%) LLM
11 57 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (14.32%) Data Privacy
13 54 (14.06%) Agile
13 54 (14.06%) Mathematics
13 54 (14.06%) Neural Network
14 52 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (13.54%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 51 (13.28%) Customer Service
16 50 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 241 (62.76%) Python
2 103 (26.82%) C++
3 50 (13.02%) SQL
4 34 (8.85%) C
5 32 (8.33%) C#
6 24 (6.25%) Java
7 15 (3.91%) R
8 14 (3.65%) Rust
9 12 (3.13%) Go
10 10 (2.60%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.82%) Assembly Language
11 7 (1.82%) MATLAB
11 7 (1.82%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.30%) Scala
13 4 (1.04%) Bash
13 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.78%) VBA
14 3 (0.78%) VC++
15 2 (0.52%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.52%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 113 (29.43%) Degree
2 52 (13.54%) AWS Certification
3 48 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 44 (11.46%) Master's Degree
5 42 (10.94%) PhD
6 38 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.39%) Security Cleared
8 10 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.34%) SC Cleared
10 7 (1.82%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.56%) CISM
11 6 (1.56%) CISSP
12 5 (1.30%) CISA
12 5 (1.30%) CRISC
12 5 (1.30%) MBA
13 4 (1.04%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.51%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.95%) QA
3 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 8 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.30%) CDISC
5 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.30%) GxP
5 5 (1.30%) HL7
5 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.78%) EMIR
7 2 (0.52%) GDPR
7 2 (0.52%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (4.17%) Docker
1 16 (4.17%) Firmware
2 7 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.56%) Terraform
3 4 (1.04%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.76%) Google
3 13 (3.39%) Databricks
4 11 (2.86%) Altera
5 10 (2.60%) IBM
5 10 (2.60%) Screaming Frog
6 8 (2.08%) Xilinx
7 7 (1.82%) YouTube
8 6 (1.56%) Botify
8 6 (1.56%) Oracle
9 5 (1.30%) BT
10 4 (1.04%) Ahrefs
11 3 (0.78%) Adobe
11 3 (0.78%) Facebook
11 3 (0.78%) Instagram
11 3 (0.78%) TikTok
12 2 (0.52%) Hotjar
12 2 (0.52%) SAP
12 2 (0.52%) Thales
13 1 (0.26%) NVIDIA