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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 157 177
Rank change year-on-year -163 +20 -4
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 436 757 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 2.03% 1.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 5.14% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 278 361 686
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £39,250
25th Percentile £35,987 £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 £95,938 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% -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 22,636 14,716 29,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.88% 39.37% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,779 8,339 20,746
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 £100,000
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 24 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 24 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 -47 195 £95,000 -7.32% 112
South East -117 85 £60,000 -3.23% 92
North of England -60 59 £37,500 -47.91% 27
South West -89 37 £55,000 -21.43% 46
North West -34 31 £41,250 -52.56% 10
Midlands -48 31 £52,500 -12.50% 22
East of England -111 31 £37,500 -46.81% 48
West Midlands -16 20 £40,250 -32.92% 11
Yorkshire -59 20 £37,500 -28.57% 8
East Midlands -70 10 £75,000 +25.00% 11
North East -33 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 (11.01%) Jupyter
2 9 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.06%) CMS
3 5 (1.15%) IIS
4 2 (0.46%) 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 (11.01%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.38%) Simulink
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) CATIA
4 2 (0.46%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (2.52%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.92%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 112 (25.69%) AWS
2 52 (11.93%) Azure
2 52 (11.93%) Cloud Computing
3 40 (9.17%) GCP
4 15 (3.44%) GitHub
4 15 (3.44%) Google Analytics
5 13 (2.98%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.29%) Azure Machine Learning
7 6 (1.38%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (1.15%) Prefect
8 5 (1.15%) Slack
9 4 (0.92%) Google Ads
9 4 (0.92%) SaaS
10 3 (0.69%) Serverless
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.46%) Firebase
11 2 (0.46%) Google App Engine
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.21%) Broadband
1 14 (3.21%) Multicast
2 6 (1.38%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (0.92%) Network Security
5 3 (0.69%) Internet
5 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.69%) 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 (6.65%) BigQuery
2 26 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (5.05%) Metadata
4 14 (3.21%) Big Data
5 13 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.52%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.52%) Power BI
7 10 (2.29%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.29%) Tableau
8 6 (1.38%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.92%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.23%) Apache Iceberg
12 1 (0.23%) Looker
12 1 (0.23%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 64 (14.68%) Visual Studio Code
2 49 (11.24%) Git
3 22 (5.05%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (3.67%) JIRA
5 15 (3.44%) GitLab
6 3 (0.69%) MLflow
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
General
1 134 (30.73%) Finance
2 69 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (14.68%) Retail
4 54 (12.39%) Manufacturing
4 54 (12.39%) Social Skills
5 39 (8.94%) Marketing
6 29 (6.65%) Front Office
7 22 (5.05%) Games
8 21 (4.82%) Electronics
9 19 (4.36%) Banking
10 13 (2.98%) Automotive
10 13 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.06%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.06%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.83%) Legal
13 6 (1.38%) Law
14 5 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 109 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 96 (22.02%) Senior
3 80 (18.35%) Developer
4 46 (10.55%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (10.55%) Programmer
5 45 (10.32%) Trainee
5 45 (10.32%) Trainee Programmer
6 43 (9.86%) Python Developer
7 39 (8.94%) Senior Developer
8 38 (8.72%) Senior Software Engineer
9 35 (8.03%) C++ Software Engineer
10 21 (4.82%) Python Engineer
10 21 (4.82%) Quantitative Developer
10 21 (4.82%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (4.59%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.36%) C++ Developer
12 19 (4.36%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.36%) Linux Developer
12 19 (4.36%) Principal Engineer
12 19 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.97%) Pandas
2 73 (16.74%) NumPy
3 55 (12.61%) scikit-learn
4 51 (11.70%) Matplotlib
5 50 (11.47%) Streamlit
6 49 (11.24%) Hugging Face
7 41 (9.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 31 (7.11%) Django
9 28 (6.42%) TensorFlow
10 27 (6.19%) PyTorch
11 21 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
12 14 (3.21%) .NET
12 14 (3.21%) HTML
12 14 (3.21%) pytest
12 14 (3.21%) RESTful
13 11 (2.52%) REST
14 9 (2.06%) CSS
14 9 (2.06%) React
15 8 (1.83%) OpenCV
16 6 (1.38%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 84 (19.27%) Data Structures
2 50 (11.47%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (8.72%) Equities
4 27 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (5.96%) Management Information System
6 22 (5.05%) FPGA
6 22 (5.05%) Hedge funds
7 20 (4.59%) Product Ownership
8 17 (3.90%) Derivative
9 15 (3.44%) PCIe
9 15 (3.44%) VHDL
10 14 (3.21%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.75%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
12 11 (2.52%) NVMe
13 9 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.61%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (12.39%) Linux
2 7 (1.61%) Windows
3 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.92%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.69%) Android
5 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.69%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.46%) Unix
7 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (41.06%) Software Engineering
2 140 (32.11%) Machine Learning
3 136 (31.19%) Computer Science
4 128 (29.36%) AI
5 90 (20.64%) OOP
6 82 (18.81%) OO
7 80 (18.35%) Visualisation
8 74 (16.97%) Data Science
9 70 (16.06%) Analytics
10 69 (15.83%) Workflow
11 67 (15.37%) Agile
12 64 (14.68%) LLM
12 64 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (12.16%) Neural Network
15 51 (11.70%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 50 (11.47%) Customer Service
16 50 (11.47%) Data Privacy
17 49 (11.24%) Mathematics
17 49 (11.24%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 279 (63.99%) Python
2 124 (28.44%) C++
3 51 (11.70%) SQL
4 40 (9.17%) C#
5 36 (8.26%) C
6 20 (4.59%) Java
7 16 (3.67%) Rust
8 13 (2.98%) Assembly Language
8 13 (2.98%) Go
8 13 (2.98%) R
9 10 (2.29%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.61%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.61%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.15%) Scala
12 4 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.69%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.69%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.69%) VBA
13 3 (0.69%) VC++
14 2 (0.46%) Bash
Qualifications
1 111 (25.46%) Degree
2 52 (11.93%) AWS Certification
3 48 (11.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (9.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (8.72%) Master's Degree
6 32 (7.34%) Security Cleared
7 28 (6.42%) PhD
8 17 (3.90%) SC Cleared
9 13 (2.98%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.15%) MBA
12 4 (0.92%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.69%) 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
14 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.82%) QA
2 17 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.38%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.69%) EMIR
7 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.46%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (5.28%) Firmware
2 22 (5.05%) Docker
3 11 (2.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (2.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.61%) Terraform
3 5 (1.15%) Kubeflow
3 5 (1.15%) SCCM
3 5 (1.15%) SCOM
3 5 (1.15%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 56 (12.84%) Google
1 56 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.67%) IBM
3 15 (3.44%) Altera
4 13 (2.98%) Databricks
5 12 (2.75%) Screaming Frog
5 12 (2.75%) Xilinx
6 6 (1.38%) Botify
7 5 (1.15%) Ahrefs
7 5 (1.15%) BT
7 5 (1.15%) Dell
7 5 (1.15%) HP
7 5 (1.15%) McAfee
7 5 (1.15%) VMware
8 4 (0.92%) Oracle
9 3 (0.69%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.46%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.46%) Thales
11 1 (0.23%) Foundry
11 1 (0.23%) NVIDIA