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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 211 174
Rank change year-on-year -91 -37 +17
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 514 642 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 1.62% 1.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.46% 3.75% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 354 256 688
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £82,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £125,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%

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 20,888 17,111 31,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.18% 43.28% 33.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,714 8,217 21,247
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 15 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 15 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 -56 209 £95,000 -13.64% 82
South East -45 112 £67,500 +8.87% 64
North of England -14 67 £37,500 -56.01% 42
East of England -23 55 £65,000 +19.27% 42
South West -92 42 £60,000 +20.00% 36
Midlands -18 32 £40,250 -32.92% 21
North West -10 31 £37,500 -56.88% 20
West Midlands -8 24 £37,500 -37.50% 12
Yorkshire -17 21 £37,500 -47.91% 10
North East -35 15 £52,000 -54.78% 12
East Midlands -24 7 £57,500 -4.17% 9
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 (9.73%) Jupyter
2 8 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.56%) CMS
3 6 (1.17%) SAS
4 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 2 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.39%) Confluence
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (9.53%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.33%) Simulink
3 3 (0.58%) Blender
3 3 (0.58%) Maya
4 2 (0.39%) CATIA
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.39%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 120 (23.35%) AWS
2 55 (10.70%) Azure
2 55 (10.70%) Cloud Computing
3 33 (6.42%) GCP
4 18 (3.50%) GitHub
5 16 (3.11%) Google Analytics
6 15 (2.92%) SaaS
7 8 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.56%) Slack
8 7 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.17%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (0.97%) Google Ads
10 5 (0.97%) Prefect
10 5 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.58%) Serverless
11 3 (0.58%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.58%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.47%) Broadband
2 18 (3.50%) Multicast
3 6 (1.17%) 5G
3 6 (1.17%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.17%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.78%) Internet
5 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.39%) Firewall
7 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) MQTT
7 1 (0.19%) Network Security
7 1 (0.19%) RS-422
7 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) Wireless
7 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.28%) BigQuery
2 21 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (3.89%) Metadata
3 20 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.11%) Big Data
5 12 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.17%) GIS
7 6 (1.17%) Power BI
7 6 (1.17%) Tableau
8 5 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (0.97%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.78%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.58%) MySQL
10 3 (0.58%) Redis
11 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.39%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (13.42%) Visual Studio Code
2 68 (13.23%) Git
3 21 (4.09%) JIRA
4 20 (3.89%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (3.11%) GitLab
6 3 (0.58%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.19%) CMake
7 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Plastic SCM
7 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
General
1 138 (26.85%) Finance
2 75 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (12.84%) Retail
3 66 (12.84%) Social Skills
4 56 (10.89%) Manufacturing
5 30 (5.84%) Marketing
6 26 (5.06%) Electronics
7 23 (4.47%) Front Office
8 21 (4.09%) Banking
9 19 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (3.50%) Automotive
11 16 (3.11%) Aerospace
12 14 (2.72%) Games
13 6 (1.17%) Advertising
13 6 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.17%) Legal
13 6 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (27.82%) Software Engineer
2 127 (24.71%) Senior
3 102 (19.84%) Developer
4 55 (10.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 50 (9.73%) Python Developer
6 46 (8.95%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (8.95%) Programmer
7 45 (8.75%) Trainee
7 45 (8.75%) Trainee Programmer
8 43 (8.37%) Senior Developer
9 41 (7.98%) C++ Software Engineer
10 30 (5.84%) Python Engineer
11 29 (5.64%) Lead
12 25 (4.86%) Embedded Engineer
12 25 (4.86%) Python Software Engineer
13 24 (4.67%) FPGA Engineer
14 23 (4.47%) Senior Python Developer
15 21 (4.09%) C++ Developer
15 21 (4.09%) Quantitative Developer
15 21 (4.09%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.20%) NumPy
1 73 (14.20%) Pandas
2 54 (10.51%) scikit-learn
2 54 (10.51%) Streamlit
3 51 (9.92%) Matplotlib
4 49 (9.53%) Hugging Face
5 48 (9.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 25 (4.86%) Django
6 25 (4.86%) PyTorch
7 23 (4.47%) TensorFlow
8 21 (4.09%) FIX Protocol
9 18 (3.50%) HTML
9 18 (3.50%) pytest
10 16 (3.11%) .NET
10 16 (3.11%) React
11 14 (2.72%) CSS
12 13 (2.53%) REST
13 10 (1.95%) Flask
13 10 (1.95%) RESTful
14 8 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.12%) Data Structures
2 49 (9.53%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.98%) Equities
4 31 (6.03%) FPGA
5 29 (5.64%) Embedded Systems
6 26 (5.06%) Management Information System
7 24 (4.67%) Hedge funds
8 22 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (4.28%) Product Ownership
9 21 (4.09%) PCIe
9 21 (4.09%) VHDL
10 19 (3.70%) Derivative
10 19 (3.70%) Fixed Income
11 16 (3.11%) Video\Live Streaming
12 15 (2.92%) Robotics
13 12 (2.33%) NVMe
14 10 (1.95%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.75%) Over-the-Top Content
16 8 (1.56%) Cloud Native
17 7 (1.36%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.65%) Linux
2 8 (1.56%) Windows
3 7 (1.36%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.58%) Android
6 3 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.39%) Unix
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (44.16%) Software Engineering
2 150 (29.18%) Computer Science
3 147 (28.60%) Machine Learning
4 144 (28.02%) AI
5 97 (18.87%) OOP
6 93 (18.09%) Agile
7 87 (16.93%) OO
8 85 (16.54%) Data Science
8 85 (16.54%) Visualisation
9 76 (14.79%) Analytics
10 73 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (13.81%) Workflow
12 62 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (11.67%) LLM
14 58 (11.28%) Signal Processing
15 57 (11.09%) CI/CD
16 55 (10.70%) Mathematics
16 55 (10.70%) SDLC
17 51 (9.92%) Decision-Making
17 51 (9.92%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 319 (62.06%) Python
2 152 (29.57%) C++
3 51 (9.92%) C
4 46 (8.95%) C#
4 46 (8.95%) SQL
5 22 (4.28%) MATLAB
5 22 (4.28%) Rust
6 20 (3.89%) Java
7 19 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.92%) Go
8 15 (2.92%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.72%) Assembly Language
10 10 (1.95%) Embedded C
10 10 (1.95%) Embedded C++
10 10 (1.95%) R
11 4 (0.78%) Julia
12 3 (0.58%) Scala
12 3 (0.58%) VBA
13 2 (0.39%) Bash
14 1 (0.19%) VC++
Qualifications
1 118 (22.96%) Degree
2 57 (11.09%) AWS Certification
3 48 (9.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 47 (9.14%) Security Cleared
5 43 (8.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (7.00%) Master's Degree
7 22 (4.28%) SC Cleared
8 19 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 18 (3.50%) PhD
10 12 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.58%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.58%) MBA
13 1 (0.19%) HND
13 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.25%) QA
2 12 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 6 (1.17%) GDPR
4 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.39%) Automotive SPICE
5 2 (0.39%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.39%) MISRA
5 2 (0.39%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.19%) EMIR
6 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (7.00%) Docker
1 36 (7.00%) Firmware
2 14 (2.72%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.14%) Terraform
3 8 (1.56%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.97%) SCCM
4 5 (0.97%) SCOM
4 5 (0.97%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 57 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.73%) Google
3 16 (3.11%) Altera
4 13 (2.53%) IBM
4 13 (2.53%) Xilinx
5 12 (2.33%) Databricks
6 9 (1.75%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.17%) Botify
8 5 (0.97%) Dell
8 5 (0.97%) HP
8 5 (0.97%) McAfee
8 5 (0.97%) VMware
9 4 (0.78%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.58%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.58%) BT
10 3 (0.58%) Rockwell
10 3 (0.58%) TikTok
11 2 (0.39%) Foundry
12 1 (0.19%) Adobe
12 1 (0.19%) MathWorks