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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 165 175
Rank change year-on-year -138 +10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 454 752 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 1.99% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 4.94% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 293 356 682
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £39,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £111,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.77% +2.31% -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 22,843 15,216 29,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.57% 40.23% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 8,297 20,869
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,950
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 1 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 1 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 -56 201 £95,000 -7.32% 111
South East -98 94 £60,000 -3.23% 86
North of England -61 61 £37,500 -47.91% 30
South West -86 40 £60,000 -14.29% 28
North West -34 31 £37,500 -56.88% 13
Midlands -48 31 £52,500 -12.50% 22
East of England -99 29 £37,500 -42.31% 42
Yorkshire -54 21 £37,500 -16.67% 8
West Midlands -29 20 £40,250 -32.92% 7
East Midlands -56 10 £75,000 +25.00% 15
North East -33 9 £37,500 -63.86% 9
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 (10.79%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.98%) CMS
4 5 (1.10%) IIS
5 2 (0.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.22%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (10.57%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.54%) Simulink
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.44%) CATIA
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.44%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 113 (24.89%) AWS
2 53 (11.67%) Cloud Computing
3 51 (11.23%) Azure
4 38 (8.37%) GCP
5 15 (3.30%) GitHub
6 14 (3.08%) Google Analytics
7 13 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.20%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.32%) Slack
9 6 (1.32%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.10%) Prefect
11 4 (0.88%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.88%) SaaS
12 2 (0.44%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.44%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.44%) Firebase
12 2 (0.44%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.30%) Broadband
1 15 (3.30%) Multicast
2 6 (1.32%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.88%) Internet
4 4 (0.88%) Network Security
5 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.22%) Firewall
6 1 (0.22%) IPsec
6 1 (0.22%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.22%) VPN
6 1 (0.22%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.95%) BigQuery
2 24 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (4.63%) Metadata
4 15 (3.30%) Big Data
5 14 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.42%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.42%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.42%) Power BI
7 10 (2.20%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.20%) Tableau
8 6 (1.32%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.88%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.22%) Looker
Development Applications
1 67 (14.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 54 (11.89%) Git
3 23 (5.07%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.74%) JIRA
5 16 (3.52%) GitLab
6 3 (0.66%) MLflow
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 137 (30.18%) Finance
2 69 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (14.10%) Retail
4 55 (12.11%) Social Skills
5 54 (11.89%) Manufacturing
6 37 (8.15%) Marketing
7 29 (6.39%) Front Office
8 22 (4.85%) Electronics
8 22 (4.85%) Games
9 20 (4.41%) Banking
10 16 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.86%) Automotive
12 11 (2.42%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.54%) Legal
15 6 (1.32%) Law
16 5 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.88%) Advertising
17 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (25.77%) Software Engineer
2 104 (22.91%) Senior
3 83 (18.28%) Developer
4 46 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (10.13%) Programmer
5 45 (9.91%) Python Developer
5 45 (9.91%) Trainee
5 45 (9.91%) Trainee Programmer
6 42 (9.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (8.81%) Senior Developer
8 38 (8.37%) C++ Software Engineer
9 23 (5.07%) Python Engineer
10 22 (4.85%) Senior Python Developer
11 21 (4.63%) Python Software Engineer
11 21 (4.63%) Quantitative Developer
12 20 (4.41%) FPGA Engineer
12 20 (4.41%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.19%) C++ Developer
13 19 (4.19%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.19%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (16.52%) Pandas
2 74 (16.30%) NumPy
3 55 (12.11%) scikit-learn
4 51 (11.23%) Matplotlib
5 50 (11.01%) Streamlit
6 49 (10.79%) Hugging Face
7 44 (9.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 29 (6.39%) Django
9 28 (6.17%) TensorFlow
10 27 (5.95%) PyTorch
11 22 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (3.30%) .NET
12 15 (3.30%) pytest
13 14 (3.08%) HTML
14 12 (2.64%) RESTful
15 11 (2.42%) REST
16 10 (2.20%) React
17 9 (1.98%) CSS
18 8 (1.76%) OpenCV
19 7 (1.54%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.28%) Data Structures
2 50 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (8.59%) Equities
4 26 (5.73%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (5.29%) FPGA
7 22 (4.85%) Hedge funds
7 22 (4.85%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.96%) Derivative
9 17 (3.74%) PCIe
9 17 (3.74%) VHDL
10 16 (3.52%) Embedded Systems
11 15 (3.30%) Fixed Income
12 13 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.64%) NVMe
14 11 (2.42%) Cloud Native
15 8 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.76%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.54%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.54%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.56%) Linux
2 7 (1.54%) Windows
3 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.66%) Android
5 3 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.44%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (42.07%) Software Engineering
2 143 (31.50%) Machine Learning
3 140 (30.84%) Computer Science
4 131 (28.85%) AI
5 91 (20.04%) OOP
6 83 (18.28%) OO
7 81 (17.84%) Visualisation
8 78 (17.18%) Data Science
9 72 (15.86%) Agile
10 71 (15.64%) Analytics
11 70 (15.42%) Workflow
12 64 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (13.88%) LLM
14 56 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (11.67%) Mathematics
15 53 (11.67%) Neural Network
16 51 (11.23%) SDLC
17 50 (11.01%) Customer Service
17 50 (11.01%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 49 (10.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 290 (63.88%) Python
2 132 (29.07%) C++
3 51 (11.23%) SQL
4 42 (9.25%) C#
5 39 (8.59%) C
6 20 (4.41%) Java
7 17 (3.74%) Rust
8 14 (3.08%) Assembly Language
9 13 (2.86%) Go
9 13 (2.86%) R
10 11 (2.42%) MATLAB
11 8 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.54%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.10%) Scala
14 4 (0.88%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.88%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.88%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.88%) VBA
15 3 (0.66%) VC++
16 2 (0.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 112 (24.67%) Degree
2 54 (11.89%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 40 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (8.37%) Master's Degree
5 38 (8.37%) Security Cleared
6 28 (6.17%) PhD
7 21 (4.63%) SC Cleared
8 15 (3.30%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.10%) MBA
11 4 (0.88%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.22%) CEH
13 1 (0.22%) CISM
13 1 (0.22%) CISSP
13 1 (0.22%) GIAC
13 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.85%) QA
2 17 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.32%) GDPR
5 5 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.66%) EMIR
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (5.73%) Firmware
2 25 (5.51%) Docker
3 12 (2.64%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.22%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.76%) Terraform
3 6 (1.32%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.10%) SCCM
4 5 (1.10%) SCOM
4 5 (1.10%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 55 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.45%) Google
3 16 (3.52%) Altera
3 16 (3.52%) IBM
4 14 (3.08%) Databricks
5 13 (2.86%) Xilinx
6 10 (2.20%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.32%) Botify
8 5 (1.10%) BT
8 5 (1.10%) Dell
8 5 (1.10%) HP
8 5 (1.10%) McAfee
8 5 (1.10%) VMware
9 4 (0.88%) Ahrefs
9 4 (0.88%) Oracle
10 3 (0.66%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.44%) Thales
12 1 (0.22%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.22%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.22%) Splunk