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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 208 178
Rank change year-on-year -93 -30 +13
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 507 640 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.63% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.48% 3.75% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 346 256 699
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,375 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,625 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £82,875
90th Percentile £111,250 £127,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,500 £62,847
% change year-on-year +0.78% +2.63% -16.20%

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 20,471 17,045 31,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.06% 43.41% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,374 8,120 21,176
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +4.85% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -49 208 £95,000 -13.64% 92
South East -44 111 £67,250 +8.47% 62
North of England -14 67 £37,500 -56.01% 39
East of England -17 50 £62,500 +14.68% 48
South West -85 42 £60,000 +29.73% 39
North West -2 31 £37,500 -56.88% 16
Midlands -13 31 £40,250 -32.92% 19
West Midlands -10 23 £37,500 -37.50% 9
Yorkshire -31 21 £37,500 -47.91% 13
North East -28 15 £52,000 -54.78% 10
East Midlands -30 7 £57,500 -4.17% 10
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 50 (9.86%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.58%) CMS
4 6 (1.18%) SAS
5 4 (0.79%) IIS
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.39%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (9.66%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.37%) Simulink
3 3 (0.59%) Blender
3 3 (0.59%) Maya
4 2 (0.39%) CATIA
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.37%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 2 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 120 (23.67%) AWS
2 55 (10.85%) Cloud Computing
3 54 (10.65%) Azure
4 32 (6.31%) GCP
5 16 (3.16%) Google Analytics
6 15 (2.96%) GitHub
6 15 (2.96%) SaaS
7 9 (1.78%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.58%) Slack
9 7 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (0.99%) Google Ads
11 5 (0.99%) Prefect
11 5 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.79%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.59%) Serverless
13 3 (0.59%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.54%) Broadband
2 17 (3.35%) Multicast
3 6 (1.18%) 5G
3 6 (1.18%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.18%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.79%) Internet
5 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.39%) Firewall
6 2 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.20%) IPsec
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) RS-422
7 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) Wireless
7 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.34%) BigQuery
2 21 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (3.94%) Metadata
4 19 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (3.35%) Big Data
6 11 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.38%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.38%) Power BI
8 7 (1.38%) Tableau
9 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.18%) GIS
10 5 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.39%) MySQL
12 2 (0.39%) Redis
12 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (13.61%) Visual Studio Code
2 67 (13.21%) Git
3 20 (3.94%) Rational DOORS
4 19 (3.75%) JIRA
5 16 (3.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.59%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.20%) CMake
7 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.20%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.20%) Valgrind
General
1 139 (27.42%) Finance
2 76 (14.99%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (12.82%) Retail
3 65 (12.82%) Social Skills
4 55 (10.85%) Manufacturing
5 31 (6.11%) Marketing
6 26 (5.13%) Electronics
7 24 (4.73%) Front Office
8 20 (3.94%) Banking
9 19 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.16%) Automotive
11 15 (2.96%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.56%) Games
13 7 (1.38%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.18%) Advertising
14 6 (1.18%) Legal
14 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 141 (27.81%) Software Engineer
2 128 (25.25%) Senior
3 98 (19.33%) Developer
4 54 (10.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 51 (10.06%) Python Developer
6 46 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (9.07%) Programmer
7 45 (8.88%) Trainee
7 45 (8.88%) Trainee Programmer
8 44 (8.68%) Senior Developer
9 40 (7.89%) C++ Software Engineer
10 29 (5.72%) Python Engineer
11 28 (5.52%) Lead
12 25 (4.93%) Embedded Engineer
13 24 (4.73%) FPGA Engineer
13 24 (4.73%) Python Software Engineer
13 24 (4.73%) Senior Python Developer
14 22 (4.34%) C++ Developer
14 22 (4.34%) Quantitative Developer
14 22 (4.34%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.40%) NumPy
1 73 (14.40%) Pandas
2 54 (10.65%) Streamlit
3 53 (10.45%) scikit-learn
4 51 (10.06%) Matplotlib
5 49 (9.66%) Hugging Face
6 48 (9.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 25 (4.93%) Django
7 25 (4.93%) PyTorch
8 23 (4.54%) TensorFlow
9 20 (3.94%) FIX Protocol
10 17 (3.35%) HTML
10 17 (3.35%) pytest
11 16 (3.16%) .NET
12 15 (2.96%) React
13 13 (2.56%) CSS
14 12 (2.37%) REST
15 10 (1.97%) RESTful
16 9 (1.78%) Flask
17 8 (1.58%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 89 (17.55%) Data Structures
2 50 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (7.69%) Equities
4 31 (6.11%) FPGA
5 28 (5.52%) Embedded Systems
6 27 (5.33%) Management Information System
7 25 (4.93%) Hedge funds
8 23 (4.54%) Product Ownership
9 22 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (4.14%) PCIe
10 21 (4.14%) VHDL
11 18 (3.55%) Derivative
11 18 (3.55%) Fixed Income
12 16 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.37%) NVMe
13 12 (2.37%) Robotics
14 10 (1.97%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.78%) Over-the-Top Content
16 8 (1.58%) Cloud Native
17 7 (1.38%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.82%) Linux
2 8 (1.58%) Windows
3 7 (1.38%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.59%) Android
6 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (44.58%) Software Engineering
2 151 (29.78%) Computer Science
3 150 (29.59%) Machine Learning
4 144 (28.40%) AI
5 96 (18.93%) OOP
6 92 (18.15%) Agile
7 87 (17.16%) Data Science
7 87 (17.16%) OO
7 87 (17.16%) Visualisation
8 79 (15.58%) Analytics
9 72 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
10 71 (14.00%) Workflow
11 60 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (11.83%) LLM
12 58 (11.44%) CI/CD
13 57 (11.24%) Signal Processing
14 54 (10.65%) SDLC
15 53 (10.45%) Decision-Making
15 53 (10.45%) Mathematics
16 51 (10.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 318 (62.72%) Python
2 149 (29.39%) C++
3 50 (9.86%) C
4 48 (9.47%) SQL
5 44 (8.68%) C#
6 22 (4.34%) MATLAB
7 21 (4.14%) Rust
8 20 (3.94%) Java
9 18 (3.55%) TypeScript
10 16 (3.16%) Go
11 15 (2.96%) JavaScript
12 14 (2.76%) Assembly Language
13 10 (1.97%) Embedded C
13 10 (1.97%) Embedded C++
13 10 (1.97%) R
14 4 (0.79%) Julia
14 4 (0.79%) Scala
15 3 (0.59%) VBA
16 2 (0.39%) Bash
17 1 (0.20%) VC++
Qualifications
1 119 (23.47%) Degree
2 57 (11.24%) AWS Certification
3 48 (9.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 47 (9.27%) Security Cleared
5 43 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (7.30%) Master's Degree
7 22 (4.34%) SC Cleared
8 20 (3.94%) PhD
9 19 (3.75%) DV Cleared
10 12 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.79%) MBA
11 4 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.39%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.20%) HND
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.93%) QA
2 13 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.18%) GDPR
5 5 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.59%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.39%) MISRA
8 2 (0.39%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.20%) EMIR
9 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 35 (6.90%) Docker
1 35 (6.90%) Firmware
2 13 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.17%) Terraform
3 8 (1.58%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.99%) SCCM
4 5 (0.99%) SCOM
4 5 (0.99%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 56 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.66%) Google
3 16 (3.16%) Altera
4 13 (2.56%) Databricks
4 13 (2.56%) IBM
4 13 (2.56%) Xilinx
5 9 (1.78%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (1.18%) Botify
7 5 (0.99%) Dell
7 5 (0.99%) HP
7 5 (0.99%) McAfee
7 5 (0.99%) VMware
8 4 (0.79%) BT
9 3 (0.59%) Ahrefs
9 3 (0.59%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.59%) TikTok
10 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.20%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.20%) Thales
11 1 (0.20%) YouTube