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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 162 173
Rank change year-on-year -155 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 440 760 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 2.02% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.94% 5.10% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 282 363 686
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £38,875
25th Percentile £35,987 £52,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,938 £93,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £112,123
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -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 22,735 14,903 29,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.77% 39.69% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,869 8,305 20,800
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 £98,750
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 26 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 26 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 -51 196 £95,000 -7.32% 77
South East -112 87 £60,000 -3.23% 77
North of England -62 60 £37,500 -47.91% 26
South West -79 38 £60,000 -14.29% 31
North West -33 31 £37,500 -56.88% 10
Midlands -52 31 £52,500 -12.50% 17
East of England -111 30 £37,500 -46.81% 36
Yorkshire -53 21 £37,500 -28.57% 7
West Midlands -29 20 £40,250 -32.92% 8
East Midlands -69 10 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North East -42 8 £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 48 (10.91%) Jupyter
2 9 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.05%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.05%) CMS
3 5 (1.14%) IIS
4 2 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.23%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (10.91%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.36%) Simulink
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.45%) CATIA
4 2 (0.45%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (2.50%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.91%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 112 (25.45%) AWS
2 52 (11.82%) Cloud Computing
3 51 (11.59%) Azure
4 40 (9.09%) GCP
5 15 (3.41%) Google Analytics
6 14 (3.18%) GitHub
7 13 (2.95%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
9 6 (1.36%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.14%) Prefect
10 5 (1.14%) Slack
11 4 (0.91%) Google Ads
11 4 (0.91%) SaaS
12 2 (0.45%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.45%) Firebase
12 2 (0.45%) Google App Engine
12 2 (0.45%) Serverless
13 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.18%) Broadband
1 14 (3.18%) Multicast
2 6 (1.36%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.14%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.91%) Internet
4 4 (0.91%) Network Security
5 3 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.23%) IPsec
6 1 (0.23%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.23%) VPN
6 1 (0.23%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.59%) BigQuery
2 26 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (4.77%) Metadata
4 14 (3.18%) Big Data
5 13 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.50%) Power BI
7 10 (2.27%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.27%) Tableau
8 6 (1.36%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.91%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.45%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.23%) Looker
12 1 (0.23%) Parquet
12 1 (0.23%) Presto
Development Applications
1 66 (15.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 51 (11.59%) Git
3 22 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (3.64%) GitLab
4 16 (3.64%) JIRA
5 3 (0.68%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 134 (30.45%) Finance
2 68 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (14.55%) Retail
4 56 (12.73%) Social Skills
5 54 (12.27%) Manufacturing
6 38 (8.64%) Marketing
7 29 (6.59%) Front Office
8 22 (5.00%) Games
9 21 (4.77%) Electronics
10 19 (4.32%) Banking
11 13 (2.95%) Automotive
11 13 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.05%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.59%) Legal
14 6 (1.36%) Law
15 5 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.91%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 113 (25.68%) Software Engineer
2 97 (22.05%) Senior
3 79 (17.95%) Developer
4 46 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (10.45%) Programmer
5 45 (10.23%) Trainee
5 45 (10.23%) Trainee Programmer
6 43 (9.77%) Python Developer
7 40 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
8 38 (8.64%) Senior Developer
9 36 (8.18%) C++ Software Engineer
10 21 (4.77%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.77%) Quantitative Developer
10 21 (4.77%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (4.55%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.32%) C++ Developer
12 19 (4.32%) Linux Developer
12 19 (4.32%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (4.32%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (4.32%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.82%) Pandas
2 73 (16.59%) NumPy
3 55 (12.50%) scikit-learn
4 51 (11.59%) Matplotlib
5 50 (11.36%) Streamlit
6 49 (11.14%) Hugging Face
7 42 (9.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 31 (7.05%) Django
9 27 (6.14%) TensorFlow
10 26 (5.91%) PyTorch
11 21 (4.77%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (3.18%) .NET
12 14 (3.18%) pytest
13 13 (2.95%) HTML
13 13 (2.95%) RESTful
14 11 (2.50%) REST
15 9 (2.05%) React
16 8 (1.82%) CSS
16 8 (1.82%) OpenCV
17 6 (1.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 84 (19.09%) Data Structures
2 50 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.64%) Equities
4 27 (6.14%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (5.91%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.00%) FPGA
6 22 (5.00%) Hedge funds
6 22 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 17 (3.86%) Derivative
8 15 (3.41%) PCIe
8 15 (3.41%) VHDL
9 14 (3.18%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (2.73%) Video\Live Streaming
12 11 (2.50%) Cloud Native
12 11 (2.50%) NVMe
13 8 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.59%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.59%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (12.73%) Linux
2 7 (1.59%) Windows
3 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.68%) Android
5 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.45%) Unix
7 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (41.36%) Software Engineering
2 139 (31.59%) Computer Science
2 139 (31.59%) Machine Learning
3 127 (28.86%) AI
4 90 (20.45%) OOP
5 82 (18.64%) OO
6 80 (18.18%) Visualisation
7 75 (17.05%) Data Science
8 70 (15.91%) Analytics
9 69 (15.68%) Workflow
10 68 (15.45%) Agile
11 63 (14.32%) LLM
11 63 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (12.05%) Neural Network
14 50 (11.36%) Customer Service
14 50 (11.36%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 50 (11.36%) SDLC
15 49 (11.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 49 (11.14%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 281 (63.86%) Python
2 127 (28.86%) C++
3 51 (11.59%) SQL
4 42 (9.55%) C#
5 36 (8.18%) C
6 20 (4.55%) Java
7 16 (3.64%) Rust
8 13 (2.95%) Assembly Language
8 13 (2.95%) Go
8 13 (2.95%) R
9 10 (2.27%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.36%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.14%) Scala
13 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.68%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.68%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.68%) VBA
14 3 (0.68%) VC++
15 2 (0.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 113 (25.68%) Degree
2 52 (11.82%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (8.64%) Master's Degree
6 34 (7.73%) Security Cleared
7 28 (6.36%) PhD
8 19 (4.32%) SC Cleared
9 13 (2.95%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.14%) MBA
12 4 (0.91%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.23%) CEH
14 1 (0.23%) CISM
14 1 (0.23%) CISSP
14 1 (0.23%) GIAC
14 1 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.77%) QA
2 17 (3.86%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.36%) GDPR
5 5 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.68%) EMIR
7 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (5.45%) Docker
2 23 (5.23%) Firmware
3 11 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.14%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.59%) Terraform
3 5 (1.14%) Kubeflow
3 5 (1.14%) SCCM
3 5 (1.14%) SCOM
3 5 (1.14%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 55 (12.50%) Google
1 55 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.64%) IBM
3 15 (3.41%) Altera
4 13 (2.95%) Databricks
5 12 (2.73%) Xilinx
6 11 (2.50%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.36%) Botify
8 5 (1.14%) BT
8 5 (1.14%) Dell
8 5 (1.14%) HP
8 5 (1.14%) McAfee
8 5 (1.14%) VMware
9 4 (0.91%) Ahrefs
9 4 (0.91%) Oracle
10 3 (0.68%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.45%) Thales
12 1 (0.23%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.23%) Hotjar
12 1 (0.23%) NVIDIA