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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 215 173
Rank change year-on-year -86 -42 +22
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 498 610 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.61% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 3.71% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 338 267 690
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,900 £38,975
25th Percentile £44,625 £50,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £127,000 £105,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 22,425 16,424 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.04% 43.26% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13,027 7,749 20,875
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £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 27 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 27 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 -31 213 £95,000 -13.64% 145
South East -39 109 £60,000 -3.23% 53
North of England -12 66 £37,500 -54.61% 39
East of England -37 42 £43,750 -18.98% 44
South West -83 42 £60,000 +20.00% 38
North West -19 31 £37,500 -57.70% 24
Midlands -38 28 £46,500 -22.50% 23
Yorkshire -30 21 £37,500 -42.31% 8
West Midlands -36 20 £43,000 -28.33% 8
North East -27 14 £44,750 -61.09% 7
East Midlands -42 7 £57,500 -4.17% 15
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 (9.84%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.81%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.81%) CMS
3 8 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.20%) SAS
5 5 (1.00%) IIS
6 2 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (9.84%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.41%) Simulink
3 2 (0.40%) Blender
3 2 (0.40%) CATIA
3 2 (0.40%) Maya
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.40%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.41%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 121 (24.30%) AWS
2 55 (11.04%) Azure
3 54 (10.84%) Cloud Computing
4 32 (6.43%) GCP
5 15 (3.01%) Google Analytics
5 15 (3.01%) SaaS
6 13 (2.61%) GitHub
7 11 (2.21%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.41%) Slack
10 5 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.00%) Prefect
10 5 (1.00%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.80%) Google Ads
12 3 (0.60%) Vertex AI
13 2 (0.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.42%) Broadband
2 17 (3.41%) Multicast
3 6 (1.20%) 5G
3 6 (1.20%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.80%) Internet
4 4 (0.80%) Network Security
5 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.40%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.20%) IPsec
7 1 (0.20%) MQTT
7 1 (0.20%) RS-422
7 1 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.82%) BigQuery
2 23 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.02%) Metadata
4 17 (3.41%) Big Data
4 17 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.81%) Hadoop
6 9 (1.81%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.81%) Power BI
7 8 (1.61%) Tableau
8 6 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.20%) GIS
9 5 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.20%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.20%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (13.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 61 (12.25%) Git
3 20 (4.02%) Rational DOORS
4 19 (3.82%) JIRA
5 16 (3.21%) GitLab
6 3 (0.60%) 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%) Valgrind
General
1 143 (28.71%) Finance
2 78 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (13.05%) Retail
3 65 (13.05%) Social Skills
4 56 (11.24%) Manufacturing
5 32 (6.43%) Marketing
6 25 (5.02%) Electronics
6 25 (5.02%) Front Office
7 20 (4.02%) Banking
8 18 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.01%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.01%) Automotive
10 14 (2.81%) Games
11 10 (2.01%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.20%) Legal
12 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.80%) Advertising
14 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 140 (28.11%) Software Engineer
2 123 (24.70%) Senior
3 93 (18.67%) Developer
4 53 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
5 50 (10.04%) Python Developer
6 46 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 46 (9.24%) Programmer
7 45 (9.04%) Trainee
7 45 (9.04%) Trainee Programmer
8 41 (8.23%) Senior Developer
9 40 (8.03%) C++ Software Engineer
10 28 (5.62%) Python Engineer
11 24 (4.82%) FPGA Engineer
12 23 (4.62%) Embedded Engineer
12 23 (4.62%) Lead
12 23 (4.62%) Python Software Engineer
12 23 (4.62%) Senior Python Developer
13 22 (4.42%) Quantitative Developer
14 21 (4.22%) C++ Developer
14 21 (4.22%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.86%) Pandas
2 73 (14.66%) NumPy
3 54 (10.84%) Streamlit
4 53 (10.64%) scikit-learn
5 51 (10.24%) Matplotlib
6 49 (9.84%) Hugging Face
7 47 (9.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 26 (5.22%) Django
9 24 (4.82%) PyTorch
9 24 (4.82%) TensorFlow
10 21 (4.22%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (3.41%) HTML
11 17 (3.41%) pytest
12 15 (3.01%) .NET
13 13 (2.61%) React
14 12 (2.41%) CSS
15 11 (2.21%) RESTful
16 10 (2.01%) REST
17 8 (1.61%) Flask
17 8 (1.61%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 89 (17.87%) Data Structures
2 49 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (7.83%) Equities
4 31 (6.22%) FPGA
5 26 (5.22%) Embedded Systems
5 26 (5.22%) Management Information System
6 24 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (4.82%) Hedge funds
6 24 (4.82%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.22%) PCIe
7 21 (4.22%) VHDL
8 19 (3.82%) Derivative
9 17 (3.41%) Fixed Income
10 15 (3.01%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (2.41%) NVMe
11 12 (2.41%) Robotics
12 10 (2.01%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 8 (1.61%) Over-the-Top Content
14 7 (1.41%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 65 (13.05%) Linux
2 8 (1.61%) Windows
3 7 (1.41%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.60%) Android
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (44.98%) Software Engineering
2 154 (30.92%) Computer Science
2 154 (30.92%) Machine Learning
3 143 (28.71%) AI
4 95 (19.08%) OOP
5 89 (17.87%) Visualisation
6 87 (17.47%) Agile
7 86 (17.27%) Data Science
8 85 (17.07%) OO
9 81 (16.27%) Analytics
10 72 (14.46%) Workflow
11 68 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (12.25%) LLM
13 59 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (11.04%) CI/CD
14 55 (11.04%) SDLC
15 54 (10.84%) Signal Processing
16 53 (10.64%) Mathematics
17 51 (10.24%) DevOps
18 50 (10.04%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 321 (64.46%) Python
2 149 (29.92%) C++
3 51 (10.24%) SQL
4 48 (9.64%) C
5 45 (9.04%) C#
6 22 (4.42%) MATLAB
7 21 (4.22%) Rust
8 20 (4.02%) Java
9 16 (3.21%) Go
10 15 (3.01%) TypeScript
11 14 (2.81%) Assembly Language
12 12 (2.41%) JavaScript
13 11 (2.21%) R
14 10 (2.01%) Embedded C
14 10 (2.01%) Embedded C++
15 5 (1.00%) Scala
16 4 (0.80%) Julia
17 3 (0.60%) VBA
18 2 (0.40%) Bash
18 2 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 120 (24.10%) Degree
2 57 (11.45%) AWS Certification
3 48 (9.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 46 (9.24%) Security Cleared
5 42 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (7.63%) Master's Degree
7 24 (4.82%) PhD
8 22 (4.42%) SC Cleared
9 19 (3.82%) DV Cleared
10 12 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.00%) MBA
12 4 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.80%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.20%) HND
14 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.02%) QA
2 15 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.40%) EMIR
8 1 (0.20%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (6.43%) Docker
1 32 (6.43%) Firmware
2 12 (2.41%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 18 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.01%) Terraform
3 7 (1.41%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.00%) SCCM
4 5 (1.00%) SCOM
4 5 (1.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 56 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.04%) Google
3 16 (3.21%) Altera
4 13 (2.61%) Databricks
4 13 (2.61%) IBM
4 13 (2.61%) Xilinx
5 10 (2.01%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (1.20%) Botify
7 5 (1.00%) BT
7 5 (1.00%) Dell
7 5 (1.00%) HP
7 5 (1.00%) McAfee
7 5 (1.00%) VMware
8 4 (0.80%) Ahrefs
9 3 (0.60%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle
11 1 (0.20%) Adobe
11 1 (0.20%) Foundry
11 1 (0.20%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.20%) TikTok