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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 249 216
Rank change year-on-year -89 -33 +63
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 537 515 835
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.20% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 2.86% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 334 234 372
10th Percentile £35,725 £36,952 £41,732
25th Percentile £53,188 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,600 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +4.59% -4.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £111,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £145,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -7.14%

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 27,421 18,037 21,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.40% 41.86% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17,677 9,248 10,489
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 October 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 October 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 -130 160 £80,000 -27.27% 1,043
South East -17 145 £71,250 +11.20% 171
East of England +12 122 £65,000 +18.18% 168
North of England -39 40 £51,000 +45.71% 102
South West -73 37 £60,000 +47.09% 80
Midlands -26 31 £67,500 +1.89% 71
Yorkshire -20 17 £32,500 -7.14% 26
West Midlands -39 16 £67,500 +22.73% 43
East Midlands -25 15 £76,250 +0.46% 28
North East - 12 £60,000 - 9
North West -25 11 £55,000 +22.22% 67
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 8 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.12%) SAS
3 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.19%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (5.03%) Simulink
2 5 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.93%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.19%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.68%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.92%) AWS
2 46 (8.57%) Azure
3 21 (3.91%) GCP
4 16 (2.98%) GitHub
5 14 (2.61%) Google Ads
5 14 (2.61%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.23%) SaaS
7 10 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.49%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.93%) Vertex AI
10 5 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.74%) Slack
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.61%) Wireless
2 13 (2.42%) Multicast
3 12 (2.23%) LTE
4 11 (2.05%) Broadband
5 9 (1.68%) 5G
6 7 (1.30%) 3GPP
6 7 (1.30%) GSM
6 7 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (1.30%) RANAP
6 7 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
6 7 (1.30%) SS7
6 7 (1.30%) UMTS
6 7 (1.30%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
8 2 (0.37%) Firewall
8 2 (0.37%) MQTT
9 1 (0.19%) HTTP
9 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.72%) Big Data
2 17 (3.17%) Metadata
3 15 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.49%) Power BI
5 6 (1.12%) GIS
6 5 (0.93%) MySQL
6 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.74%) KDB
7 4 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.74%) Redis
7 4 (0.74%) Tableau
8 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 63 (11.73%) Git
2 18 (3.35%) JIRA
3 17 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (2.98%) Visual Studio Code
5 10 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.68%) GitLab
7 7 (1.30%) GCC
7 7 (1.30%) GDB
8 6 (1.12%) PetaLinux
9 5 (0.93%) MLflow
10 4 (0.74%) CMake
11 3 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
12 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.19%) QUnit
13 1 (0.19%) Subversion
13 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
General
1 92 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 91 (16.95%) Finance
3 59 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.70%) Banking
6 34 (6.33%) Marketing
7 30 (5.59%) Electronics
8 29 (5.40%) Aerospace
9 27 (5.03%) Retail
10 16 (2.98%) Advertising
11 14 (2.61%) Law
12 13 (2.42%) Financial Institution
12 13 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.23%) Front Office
14 10 (1.86%) Legal
15 9 (1.68%) Military
16 8 (1.49%) Automotive
16 8 (1.49%) Games
17 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 142 (26.44%) Software Engineer
2 118 (21.97%) Senior
3 72 (13.41%) Developer
4 52 (9.68%) Lead
5 41 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 38 (7.08%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (6.33%) Data Scientist
8 32 (5.96%) C++ Software Engineer
9 28 (5.21%) Python Engineer
10 27 (5.03%) FPGA Engineer
11 24 (4.47%) Senior Developer
12 22 (4.10%) Python Software Engineer
13 21 (3.91%) Python Developer
14 19 (3.54%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (3.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 18 (3.35%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 17 (3.17%) Architect
16 17 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
17 16 (2.98%) SEO Specialist
18 15 (2.79%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.21%) React
2 27 (5.03%) .NET
2 27 (5.03%) PyTorch
3 25 (4.66%) CSS
3 25 (4.66%) HTML
4 22 (4.10%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 22 (4.10%) TensorFlow
5 17 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
6 16 (2.98%) STL
7 15 (2.79%) Yocto
8 13 (2.42%) pytest
9 11 (2.05%) Kafka
9 11 (2.05%) NumPy
9 11 (2.05%) Pandas
9 11 (2.05%) Terraform
10 10 (1.86%) ASP.NET
11 9 (1.68%) Node.js
12 8 (1.49%) FastAPI
12 8 (1.49%) REST
13 7 (1.30%) Google JAX
Miscellaneous
1 73 (13.59%) Data Structures
2 49 (9.12%) Embedded Systems
3 47 (8.75%) FPGA
4 37 (6.89%) Robotics
5 29 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (5.21%) Equities
7 25 (4.66%) VHDL
8 21 (3.91%) PCIe
9 16 (2.98%) Product Ownership
10 15 (2.79%) Fixed Income
10 15 (2.79%) Verilog
11 14 (2.61%) Derivative
12 12 (2.23%) Management Information System
13 11 (2.05%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.86%) ASIC
14 10 (1.86%) Device Driver
14 10 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
15 9 (1.68%) Cloud Native
15 9 (1.68%) IoT
15 9 (1.68%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.92%) Linux
2 20 (3.72%) Embedded Linux
3 15 (2.79%) Windows
4 6 (1.12%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.56%) Unix
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (42.27%) Software Engineering
2 171 (31.84%) AI
3 146 (27.19%) Computer Science
3 146 (27.19%) Machine Learning
4 105 (19.55%) Agile
5 96 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
6 91 (16.95%) Data Science
7 84 (15.64%) Mathematics
8 70 (13.04%) Analytics
9 68 (12.66%) CI/CD
10 55 (10.24%) Signal Processing
11 51 (9.50%) Decision-Making
12 49 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (8.94%) Test Automation
14 47 (8.75%) Validation
15 46 (8.57%) Mentoring
16 44 (8.19%) Roadmaps
17 42 (7.82%) Physics
18 40 (7.45%) Technical Leadership
19 39 (7.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 279 (51.96%) Python
2 163 (30.35%) C++
3 70 (13.04%) C
4 60 (11.17%) C#
5 56 (10.43%) MATLAB
6 44 (8.19%) SQL
7 42 (7.82%) Java
8 29 (5.40%) JavaScript
9 26 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 24 (4.47%) Embedded C++
11 20 (3.72%) Embedded C
12 18 (3.35%) Rust
13 12 (2.23%) Go
14 9 (1.68%) Assembly Language
14 9 (1.68%) R
15 6 (1.12%) SystemVerilog
16 4 (0.74%) Fortran
17 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.56%) VBA
18 2 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 167 (31.10%) Degree
2 86 (16.01%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (8.38%) Master's Degree
4 45 (8.38%) SC Cleared
5 34 (6.33%) PhD
6 23 (4.28%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.56%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) HND
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.70%) QA
2 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.23%) GDPR
3 11 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.12%) Automotive SPICE
4 6 (1.12%) ISO 26262
4 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.12%) MISRA
4 6 (1.12%) MISRA C
5 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) ECSS
8 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (8.19%) Docker
2 42 (7.82%) Firmware
3 23 (4.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.19%) Ceph
6 1 (0.19%) Lustre
6 1 (0.19%) NFS
6 1 (0.19%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.74%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
3 2 (0.37%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.37%) SCCM
3 2 (0.37%) SCOM
3 2 (0.37%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 30 (5.59%) Google
2 13 (2.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.42%) Xilinx
3 10 (1.86%) Altera
4 8 (1.49%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.49%) Screaming Frog
5 7 (1.30%) Thales
6 6 (1.12%) Ahrefs
6 6 (1.12%) IBM
7 5 (0.93%) Databricks
7 5 (0.93%) Foundry
7 5 (0.93%) TikTok
8 4 (0.74%) Intel
8 4 (0.74%) Sitebulb
9 2 (0.37%) Adobe
9 2 (0.37%) Dell
9 2 (0.37%) HP
9 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
9 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.37%) VMware