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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 153 182
Rank change year-on-year -162 +29 -18
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 413 748 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 2.03% 1.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 5.22% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 257 356 672
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £53,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £114,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 22,148 14,318 28,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.21% 38.94% 35.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,490 8,224 20,653
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,561 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,445 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +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 15 April 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 April 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 -48 192 £95,000 -7.32% 96
South East -126 66 £60,000 -3.23% 95
North of England -78 54 £37,500 -47.91% 49
South West -94 37 £50,000 -16.67% 49
Midlands -53 30 £50,000 -16.67% 30
East of England -100 30 £37,500 -50.66% 45
North West -33 28 £37,500 -57.70% 20
West Midlands -19 19 £37,500 -37.50% 13
Yorkshire -61 18 £37,500 -28.57% 13
East Midlands -60 10 £75,000 +25.00% 17
North East -27 8 £37,500 -63.86% 16
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 48 (11.62%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.18%) CMS
4 5 (1.21%) IIS
5 3 (0.73%) Kinematics
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (11.62%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.97%) Simulink
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.73%) Adobe Premiere
3 3 (0.73%) Final Cut Pro
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.48%) CATIA
4 2 (0.48%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.97%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.24%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 111 (26.88%) AWS
2 52 (12.59%) Cloud Computing
3 51 (12.35%) Azure
4 40 (9.69%) GCP
5 16 (3.87%) GitHub
6 13 (3.15%) Google Analytics
6 13 (3.15%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.42%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (1.45%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.21%) Prefect
9 5 (1.21%) Slack
10 4 (0.97%) SaaS
11 3 (0.73%) Canva
11 3 (0.73%) Firebase
11 3 (0.73%) Serverless
12 2 (0.48%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.48%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.48%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.39%) Broadband
1 14 (3.39%) Multicast
2 6 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.21%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.97%) Network Security
4 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.48%) Internet
7 1 (0.24%) IPsec
7 1 (0.24%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.24%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.54%) BigQuery
2 24 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (4.60%) Metadata
4 14 (3.39%) Big Data
4 14 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.66%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.66%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.66%) Power BI
6 10 (2.42%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.42%) Tableau
7 6 (1.45%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.97%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.24%) Looker
12 1 (0.24%) Parquet
12 1 (0.24%) Presto
Development Applications
1 58 (14.04%) Visual Studio Code
2 41 (9.93%) Git
3 19 (4.60%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (3.87%) JIRA
5 10 (2.42%) GitLab
6 3 (0.73%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Jenkins
General
1 135 (32.69%) Finance
2 71 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (15.50%) Retail
4 60 (14.53%) Social Skills
5 56 (13.56%) Manufacturing
6 44 (10.65%) Marketing
7 30 (7.26%) Front Office
8 24 (5.81%) Electronics
9 22 (5.33%) Games
10 19 (4.60%) Banking
11 13 (3.15%) Automotive
12 9 (2.18%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.18%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.94%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.94%) Legal
14 6 (1.45%) Law
15 5 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (22.76%) Software Engineer
2 88 (21.31%) Senior
3 78 (18.89%) Developer
4 46 (11.14%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (11.14%) Programmer
5 45 (10.90%) Trainee
5 45 (10.90%) Trainee Programmer
6 40 (9.69%) Python Developer
7 38 (9.20%) Senior Developer
8 35 (8.47%) C++ Software Engineer
9 32 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (5.08%) Quantitative Developer
10 21 (5.08%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (4.84%) Python Engineer
11 20 (4.84%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.60%) C++ Developer
12 19 (4.60%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.60%) Linux Developer
12 19 (4.60%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (4.60%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.68%) Pandas
2 72 (17.43%) NumPy
3 56 (13.56%) scikit-learn
4 51 (12.35%) Matplotlib
5 50 (12.11%) Streamlit
6 49 (11.86%) Hugging Face
7 42 (10.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 30 (7.26%) Django
9 29 (7.02%) TensorFlow
10 28 (6.78%) PyTorch
11 22 (5.33%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (3.63%) .NET
13 14 (3.39%) pytest
14 13 (3.15%) HTML
14 13 (3.15%) RESTful
15 12 (2.91%) React
15 12 (2.91%) REST
16 8 (1.94%) CSS
16 8 (1.94%) OpenCV
17 7 (1.69%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 82 (19.85%) Data Structures
2 48 (11.62%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (9.20%) Equities
4 26 (6.30%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.05%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.33%) Hedge funds
7 18 (4.36%) FPGA
8 17 (4.12%) Derivative
8 17 (4.12%) Product Ownership
9 14 (3.39%) Fixed Income
10 13 (3.15%) Cloud Native
10 13 (3.15%) PCIe
11 12 (2.91%) Social Media
11 12 (2.91%) VHDL
11 12 (2.91%) Video\Live Streaming
12 10 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
13 9 (2.18%) NVMe
14 7 (1.69%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.59%) Linux
2 6 (1.45%) Windows
3 4 (0.97%) Android
3 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.48%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (39.23%) Software Engineering
2 139 (33.66%) Machine Learning
3 134 (32.45%) AI
4 129 (31.23%) Computer Science
5 91 (22.03%) OOP
6 83 (20.10%) OO
7 78 (18.89%) Visualisation
8 73 (17.68%) Analytics
9 70 (16.95%) Workflow
10 68 (16.46%) Data Science
11 65 (15.74%) LLM
12 61 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 59 (14.29%) Agile
14 54 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (12.83%) Neural Network
16 51 (12.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 50 (12.11%) Customer Service
17 50 (12.11%) Data Privacy
17 50 (12.11%) Mathematics
18 49 (11.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 266 (64.41%) Python
2 115 (27.85%) C++
3 54 (13.08%) SQL
4 37 (8.96%) C#
5 33 (7.99%) C
6 21 (5.08%) Java
7 15 (3.63%) R
8 13 (3.15%) Go
8 13 (3.15%) Rust
9 11 (2.66%) Assembly Language
10 9 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.18%) MATLAB
11 7 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.21%) Scala
13 4 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.73%) VBA
14 3 (0.73%) VC++
15 2 (0.48%) Bash
15 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.48%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 110 (26.63%) Degree
2 52 (12.59%) AWS Certification
3 48 (11.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (9.20%) Master's Degree
6 28 (6.78%) PhD
7 21 (5.08%) Security Cleared
8 11 (2.66%) SC Cleared
9 10 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (2.18%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.21%) MBA
12 4 (0.97%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.24%) CEH
14 1 (0.24%) CISM
14 1 (0.24%) CISSP
14 1 (0.24%) GIAC
14 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.08%) QA
2 18 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 5 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.97%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) EMIR
7 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.48%) NIST
8 1 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (4.60%) Docker
2 18 (4.36%) Firmware
3 9 (2.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.45%) Terraform
3 5 (1.21%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.97%) SCCM
4 4 (0.97%) SCOM
4 4 (0.97%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.24%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 51 (12.35%) Google
3 14 (3.39%) IBM
4 13 (3.15%) Altera
4 13 (3.15%) Databricks
5 11 (2.66%) Screaming Frog
6 10 (2.42%) Xilinx
7 7 (1.69%) YouTube
8 6 (1.45%) Botify
9 5 (1.21%) Ahrefs
9 5 (1.21%) BT
9 5 (1.21%) Oracle
10 4 (0.97%) Dell
10 4 (0.97%) HP
10 4 (0.97%) McAfee
10 4 (0.97%) VMware
11 3 (0.73%) Adobe
11 3 (0.73%) Facebook
11 3 (0.73%) Rockwell
11 3 (0.73%) TikTok