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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 233 201
Rank change year-on-year -84 -32 +85
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 545 569 975
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.30% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 3.09% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 362 251 401
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,438 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +12.96% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,938 £110,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -13.10%

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 24,802 18,385 23,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.51% 41.91% 32.29%
Number of salaries quoted 16,304 9,400 13,223
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £58,984
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.75% -9.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -94 196 £87,500 -20.45% 384
South East -39 130 £67,500 +8.87% 107
East of England +26 102 £63,750 +15.91% 56
North of England -50 50 £60,000 +20.00% 46
South West -55 44 £58,000 +17.77% 57
Midlands -30 25 £57,500 - 40
Yorkshire -23 21 £32,500 -7.14% 13
West Midlands -18 20 £58,750 +2.17% 21
North West -15 16 £60,625 +21.25% 21
North East -50 13 £60,000 -47.83% 13
East Midlands -29 4 £57,500 +112.96% 19
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 7 (1.28%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.28%) CMS
1 7 (1.28%) Jupyter
2 6 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.10%) SAS
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
4 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.20%) Simulink
2 7 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) CATIA
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (1.83%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (14.86%) AWS
2 53 (9.72%) Azure
3 25 (4.59%) GCP
4 15 (2.75%) Google Analytics
5 14 (2.57%) SaaS
6 13 (2.39%) GitHub
6 13 (2.39%) Google Ads
7 10 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.10%) Slack
11 5 (0.92%) Prefect
11 5 (0.92%) Vertex AI
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.73%) Serverless
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.67%) Broadband
2 12 (2.20%) Multicast
3 8 (1.47%) LTE
4 7 (1.28%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.28%) 5G
4 7 (1.28%) GSM
4 7 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.28%) RANAP
4 7 (1.28%) SS7
4 7 (1.28%) UMTS
4 7 (1.28%) Wireshark
5 4 (0.73%) Internet
5 4 (0.73%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.73%) Wireless
6 3 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.37%) Firewall
8 1 (0.18%) IPsec
8 1 (0.18%) MQTT
8 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (3.49%) Metadata
3 15 (2.75%) Big Data
4 11 (2.02%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.83%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.47%) Power BI
8 6 (1.10%) GIS
9 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.73%) MySQL
10 4 (0.73%) Redis
10 4 (0.73%) Tableau
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.55%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.55%) KDB
12 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 71 (13.03%) Git
2 24 (4.40%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.49%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (2.94%) JIRA
5 14 (2.57%) GitLab
6 10 (1.83%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.28%) GCC
7 7 (1.28%) GDB
8 4 (0.73%) CMake
9 3 (0.55%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.37%) MLflow
10 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 103 (18.90%) Finance
2 68 (12.48%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (6.61%) Marketing
6 30 (5.50%) Banking
7 27 (4.95%) Electronics
8 26 (4.77%) Retail
9 20 (3.67%) Aerospace
10 17 (3.12%) Games
11 16 (2.94%) Front Office
12 14 (2.57%) Law
13 13 (2.39%) Advertising
13 13 (2.39%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.02%) Legal
14 11 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.65%) Automotive
17 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
18 6 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (29.54%) Software Engineer
2 126 (23.12%) Senior
3 102 (18.72%) Developer
4 47 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
5 45 (8.26%) Lead
6 43 (7.89%) Python Developer
7 37 (6.79%) Embedded Engineer
8 36 (6.61%) Senior Developer
9 35 (6.42%) C++ Software Engineer
10 31 (5.69%) Data Scientist
11 27 (4.95%) Python Engineer
12 20 (3.67%) FPGA Engineer
13 19 (3.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 19 (3.49%) Python Software Engineer
13 19 (3.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 17 (3.12%) Quantitative Developer
15 16 (2.94%) SEO Specialist
16 15 (2.75%) Senior Python Developer
16 15 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
17 14 (2.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 29 (5.32%) PyTorch
3 28 (5.14%) NumPy
3 28 (5.14%) Pandas
4 26 (4.77%) React
5 24 (4.40%) TensorFlow
6 23 (4.22%) HTML
7 19 (3.49%) .NET
7 19 (3.49%) CSS
8 16 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
9 15 (2.75%) REST
10 13 (2.39%) Terraform
11 12 (2.20%) Django
11 12 (2.20%) pytest
12 11 (2.02%) Kafka
12 11 (2.02%) STL
13 10 (1.83%) Google JAX
13 10 (1.83%) JAX
13 10 (1.83%) Streamlit
13 10 (1.83%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 83 (15.23%) Data Structures
2 37 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (6.79%) Embedded Systems
3 32 (5.87%) Equities
4 28 (5.14%) FPGA
5 25 (4.59%) Robotics
6 21 (3.85%) VHDL
7 20 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.30%) Hedge funds
9 17 (3.12%) Management Information System
9 17 (3.12%) PCIe
10 14 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
11 13 (2.39%) Derivative
11 13 (2.39%) Fixed Income
12 11 (2.02%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.83%) NVMe
13 10 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.83%) Verilog
14 8 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.74%) Linux
2 15 (2.75%) Windows
3 10 (1.83%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.55%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (46.24%) Software Engineering
2 150 (27.52%) AI
3 144 (26.42%) Computer Science
4 129 (23.67%) Machine Learning
5 101 (18.53%) Agile
6 93 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (16.88%) Data Science
8 74 (13.58%) Analytics
9 68 (12.48%) Mathematics
10 66 (12.11%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.64%) Test Automation
12 55 (10.09%) Signal Processing
13 54 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (9.91%) Mentoring
14 50 (9.17%) Decision-Making
15 47 (8.62%) Deep Learning
15 47 (8.62%) SDLC
16 46 (8.44%) Low Latency
16 46 (8.44%) OOP
16 46 (8.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 297 (54.50%) Python
2 150 (27.52%) C++
3 56 (10.28%) C
4 52 (9.54%) C#
5 42 (7.71%) SQL
6 37 (6.79%) Java
7 26 (4.77%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.40%) JavaScript
8 24 (4.40%) MATLAB
9 21 (3.85%) Rust
10 16 (2.94%) Embedded C++
10 16 (2.94%) Go
11 13 (2.39%) Embedded C
12 12 (2.20%) Assembly Language
13 10 (1.83%) R
14 4 (0.73%) Bash
15 3 (0.55%) Fortran
15 3 (0.55%) Julia
15 3 (0.55%) VBA
16 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (26.97%) Degree
2 69 (12.66%) Security Cleared
3 45 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 26 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 24 (4.40%) PhD
8 16 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) HND
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.06%) QA
2 12 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.02%) GDPR
4 9 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 6 (1.10%) Automotive SPICE
6 6 (1.10%) ISO 26262
6 6 (1.10%) MISRA
6 6 (1.10%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 51 (9.36%) Docker
2 43 (7.89%) Firmware
3 22 (4.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.10%) Kubeflow
3 5 (0.92%) SCCM
3 5 (0.92%) SCOM
3 5 (0.92%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 40 (7.34%) Google
2 16 (2.94%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.20%) Screaming Frog
4 11 (2.02%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.83%) Altera
5 10 (1.83%) IBM
6 9 (1.65%) Databricks
7 7 (1.28%) Ahrefs
8 5 (0.92%) Dell
8 5 (0.92%) HP
8 5 (0.92%) McAfee
8 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.92%) TikTok
8 5 (0.92%) VMware
9 4 (0.73%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
10 3 (0.55%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.37%) Botify
11 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy