Algorithms Jobs 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 176 197
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -77
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 1,026 1,436 1,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.98% 1.53% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.31% 4.63% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 585 665 692
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £62,000 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £62,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -13.79% -3.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £94,628
90th Percentile £110,000 £98,750 £121,250
UK median annual salary £70,600 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -10.71% -5.40%

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 19,325 30,983 34,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.32% 33.08% 43.25%
Number of salaries quoted 9,231 20,631 19,722
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +6.36% -14.10% +2.45%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in England.

Salary trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025. 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
South East +47 546 £70,600 +21.72% 555
London +49 254 £110,000 +36.22% 2,081
South West +55 80 £50,000 -9.09% 211
East of England -22 65 £55,000 -15.38% 310
North of England -50 49 £82,626 +50.23% 355
North West -75 38 £85,253 +42.09% 207
Midlands -42 25 £60,000 - 200
West Midlands -15 14 £60,000 - 112
East Midlands -16 11 £43,500 -30.40% 84
Yorkshire +36 8 £70,996 +41.99% 114
North East +47 3 £115,000 +26.10% 34
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.34%) Jupyter
2 18 (1.75%) Kinematics
3 16 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.07%) CMS
5 9 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.58%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) GemFire
8 3 (0.29%) Kentico
8 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.29%) WordPress
9 2 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.097%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.097%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (1.75%) Simulink
2 12 (1.17%) Mathcad
3 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.29%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.29%) InDesign
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.29%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.19%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.19%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (10.82%) Azure
2 98 (9.55%) AWS
3 55 (5.36%) GCP
4 30 (2.92%) Vertex AI
5 25 (2.44%) SaaS
6 24 (2.34%) Google Analytics
7 20 (1.95%) Power Platform
8 15 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
9 14 (1.36%) Amazon SageMaker
10 13 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (1.07%) Azure AI
11 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (0.78%) Amazon S3
14 7 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (0.68%) Snowflake
15 6 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (0.58%) Google Sheets
16 5 (0.49%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.97%) Multicast
2 4 (0.39%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.29%) Internet
3 3 (0.29%) S/MIME
3 3 (0.29%) SSL
3 3 (0.29%) X.509
4 2 (0.19%) MQTT
4 2 (0.19%) RTP
4 2 (0.19%) WAN
5 1 (0.097%) DVB
5 1 (0.097%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.24%) Big Data
2 58 (5.65%) NoSQL
3 42 (4.09%) Data Mining
4 20 (1.95%) Power BI
5 19 (1.85%) MongoDB
5 19 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.75%) Tableau
7 12 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 12 (1.17%) DB2
8 11 (1.07%) MySQL
9 10 (0.97%) SQL Server
10 9 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.88%) Looker
11 8 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.78%) Cloud Spanner
11 8 (0.78%) Redis
12 7 (0.68%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.68%) KDB
Development Applications
1 351 (34.21%) Rational DOORS
2 57 (5.56%) Git
3 18 (1.75%) JIRA
4 13 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.88%) Eclipse
5 9 (0.88%) IntelliJ
5 9 (0.88%) Jasmine
5 9 (0.88%) JUnit
5 9 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
5 9 (0.88%) Mockito
5 9 (0.88%) Protractor
6 8 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.68%) Gradle
7 7 (0.68%) Vite
8 6 (0.58%) GitLab
9 5 (0.49%) Bazaar
9 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.29%) MLflow
11 2 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 446 (43.47%) Electronics
2 230 (22.42%) Finance
3 152 (14.81%) Law
4 147 (14.33%) Social Skills
5 130 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
6 129 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 93 (9.06%) Banking
8 74 (7.21%) Marketing
9 55 (5.36%) Retail
10 36 (3.51%) Front Office
11 35 (3.41%) Games
12 25 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.75%) Investment Banking
14 17 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.56%) Public Sector
16 15 (1.46%) Advertising
16 15 (1.46%) Automotive
17 13 (1.27%) Legal
18 11 (1.07%) Aerospace
18 11 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 352 (34.31%) Systems Engineer
2 341 (33.24%) Senior
3 201 (19.59%) Principal Engineer
4 194 (18.91%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 157 (15.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 142 (13.84%) Software Engineer
7 92 (8.97%) Lead
8 87 (8.48%) Developer
9 82 (7.99%) Data Scientist
10 59 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (3.61%) Java Engineer
12 36 (3.51%) Senior Data Scientist
13 34 (3.31%) Radar Engineer
14 33 (3.22%) Java Software Engineer
15 30 (2.92%) C++ Developer
16 28 (2.73%) Senior Developer
17 27 (2.63%) Java Developer
18 26 (2.53%) Python Engineer
18 26 (2.53%) Quantitative Developer
19 25 (2.44%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (5.95%) React
2 38 (3.70%) TensorFlow
3 37 (3.61%) scikit-learn
4 35 (3.41%) PyTorch
5 33 (3.22%) Kafka
6 29 (2.83%) AngularJS
7 26 (2.53%) Spring
8 25 (2.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 22 (2.14%) Middleware
10 21 (2.05%) .NET
11 20 (1.95%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.85%) REST
13 17 (1.66%) CSS
14 16 (1.56%) OAuth
14 16 (1.56%) Pandas
15 15 (1.46%) Node.js
15 15 (1.46%) PySpark
15 15 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (1.36%) HTML
16 14 (1.36%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 46 (4.48%) Cyberattack
3 43 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.80%) Equities
5 36 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 35 (3.41%) Public Cloud
7 32 (3.12%) Robotics
8 24 (2.34%) Derivative
8 24 (2.34%) Fixed Income
9 23 (2.24%) Cloud Native
9 23 (2.24%) Hedge funds
10 19 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.27%) Blog
12 13 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.27%) Social Media
13 12 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (1.07%) e-Learning
14 11 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (0.97%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.87%) Linux
2 30 (2.92%) Windows
3 21 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 20 (1.95%) Unix
5 16 (1.56%) Android
6 4 (0.39%) Robot Operating System
7 3 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.097%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.097%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (42.20%) Signal Processing
2 430 (41.91%) Technical Leadership
3 428 (41.72%) Systems Engineering
4 264 (25.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 257 (25.05%) Software Engineering
6 253 (24.66%) Machine Learning
7 216 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 198 (19.30%) Analytics
9 194 (18.91%) Test Planning
10 189 (18.42%) Data Science
11 172 (16.76%) Agile
11 172 (16.76%) Computer Science
12 166 (16.18%) Mentoring
12 166 (16.18%) Visualisation
13 153 (14.91%) Mathematics
14 111 (10.82%) MLOps
14 111 (10.82%) Statistics
15 101 (9.84%) DevOps
16 97 (9.45%) SDLC
17 90 (8.77%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 284 (27.68%) Python
2 154 (15.01%) Java
3 125 (12.18%) SQL
4 124 (12.09%) C++
5 87 (8.48%) R
6 55 (5.36%) C
6 55 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 51 (4.97%) C#
8 38 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.34%) MATLAB
10 12 (1.17%) Embedded C
11 9 (0.88%) Go
11 9 (0.88%) Scala
11 9 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.78%) Bash
13 7 (0.68%) Fortran
14 6 (0.58%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.58%) Rust
15 3 (0.29%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.29%) VC++
Qualifications
1 423 (41.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 214 (20.86%) Degree
3 84 (8.19%) Master's Degree
4 75 (7.31%) PhD
5 70 (6.82%) Security Cleared
6 58 (5.65%) DV Cleared
7 57 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
9 14 (1.36%) SC Cleared
10 11 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.29%) CISM
11 3 (0.29%) CISSP
11 3 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.19%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (41.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 26 (2.53%) QA
3 20 (1.95%) GDPR
4 13 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 81 (7.89%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Apache Flume
2 5 (0.49%) Firmware
3 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.75%) Terraform
3 9 (0.88%) Ansible
4 5 (0.49%) Oozie
5 3 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (0.29%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.19%) Mesos
6 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.097%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.097%) Grafana
7 1 (0.097%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 372 (36.26%) IBM
2 103 (10.04%) Google
3 70 (6.82%) Microsoft
4 47 (4.58%) OpenAI
5 33 (3.22%) Databricks
6 18 (1.75%) SAP
7 17 (1.66%) Ahrefs
8 16 (1.56%) Oracle
9 15 (1.46%) Screaming Frog
9 15 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.27%) MathWorks
11 12 (1.17%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.07%) Workday
13 5 (0.49%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.49%) Facebook
13 5 (0.49%) Solace
14 4 (0.39%) Remedy
14 4 (0.39%) Sun
14 4 (0.39%) TIBCO
15 3 (0.29%) Adobe