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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 166 202
Rank change year-on-year -142 +36 -45
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 377 777 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.77% 1.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 4.64% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 206 375 619
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,082 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £105,938 £84,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £110,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -6.90%

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 19,788 16,750 23,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.85% 38.06% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,196 7,936 17,870
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £28,800
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -14 186 £100,000 +5.26% 245
South East -119 55 £67,500 +8.00% 97
North of England -45 38 £37,500 -45.05% 46
East of England -45 36 £55,000 -27.63% 41
South West -79 33 £40,792 -37.24% 46
North West -13 23 £37,500 -56.01% 26
Midlands -26 22 £70,000 +16.67% 35
West Midlands +3 13 £45,000 -25.00% 17
Yorkshire -41 11 £37,500 -16.67% 11
East Midlands -34 8 £75,000 +25.00% 18
North East -6 4 £37,500 -37.50% 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 33 (8.75%) Jupyter
2 11 (2.92%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.65%) Kinematics
4 7 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.33%) IIS
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
Applications
1 33 (8.75%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.86%) Simulink
3 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.80%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.27%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (21.49%) AWS
2 46 (12.20%) Azure
3 38 (10.08%) GCP
4 37 (9.81%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (4.24%) GitHub
6 14 (3.71%) Google Analytics
7 13 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 13 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.39%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.33%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.06%) dbt
10 4 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.06%) LangSmith
11 3 (0.80%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.80%) Canva
11 3 (0.80%) Firebase
11 3 (0.80%) Slack
12 2 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.18%) Multicast
2 6 (1.59%) Broadband
2 6 (1.59%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.33%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.04%) BigQuery
1 19 (5.04%) Metadata
2 18 (4.77%) Big Data
2 18 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.45%) Power BI
4 12 (3.18%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.92%) Hadoop
5 11 (2.92%) Tableau
6 8 (2.12%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.59%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.33%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.80%) Looker
9 3 (0.80%) Redis
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.27%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 36 (9.55%) Visual Studio Code
2 22 (5.84%) Rational DOORS
3 20 (5.31%) Git
4 13 (3.45%) JIRA
5 6 (1.59%) MLflow
6 3 (0.80%) GitLab
6 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.53%) JConsole
7 2 (0.53%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 135 (35.81%) Finance
2 87 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.41%) Retail
5 42 (11.14%) Electronics
6 41 (10.88%) Front Office
7 40 (10.61%) Marketing
8 39 (10.34%) Manufacturing
9 23 (6.10%) Games
10 22 (5.84%) Banking
11 20 (5.31%) Law
12 18 (4.77%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.18%) Automotive
13 12 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (2.65%) Financial Institution
14 10 (2.65%) Legal
14 10 (2.65%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.86%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.86%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.59%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 75 (19.89%) Senior
2 66 (17.51%) Software Engineer
3 61 (16.18%) Developer
4 37 (9.81%) Lead
5 33 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 33 (8.75%) Programmer
5 33 (8.75%) Trainee
5 33 (8.75%) Trainee Programmer
6 28 (7.43%) Senior Developer
7 27 (7.16%) Quantitative Developer
8 24 (6.37%) C++ Software Engineer
8 24 (6.37%) Principal Engineer
8 24 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
9 22 (5.84%) Python Developer
10 21 (5.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 20 (5.31%) Systems Engineer
12 19 (5.04%) C++ Developer
12 19 (5.04%) Linux Developer
12 19 (5.04%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (5.04%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.14%) scikit-learn
2 41 (10.88%) Pandas
3 40 (10.61%) NumPy
4 36 (9.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 36 (9.55%) Matplotlib
5 35 (9.28%) Streamlit
6 34 (9.02%) Hugging Face
7 25 (6.63%) TensorFlow
8 24 (6.37%) Django
9 23 (6.10%) FIX Protocol
10 19 (5.04%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.71%) .NET
12 13 (3.45%) Kafka
13 12 (3.18%) pytest
14 10 (2.65%) HTML
14 10 (2.65%) Middleware
15 9 (2.39%) React
15 9 (2.39%) RESTful
16 8 (2.12%) CSS
16 8 (2.12%) Java Concurrency
Miscellaneous
1 64 (16.98%) Data Structures
2 43 (11.41%) Equities
3 41 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (7.16%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.10%) Hedge funds
6 20 (5.31%) Cloud Native
6 20 (5.31%) Derivative
6 20 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.45%) Fixed Income
7 13 (3.45%) Robotics
8 11 (2.92%) FPGA
8 11 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.92%) Social Media
9 10 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.65%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (2.65%) Life Science
10 9 (2.39%) PCIe
11 8 (2.12%) 3D Graphics
11 8 (2.12%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 46 (12.20%) Linux
2 4 (1.06%) Android
2 4 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.06%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (41.11%) AI
2 137 (36.34%) Machine Learning
3 124 (32.89%) Computer Science
3 124 (32.89%) Software Engineering
4 104 (27.59%) Analytics
5 78 (20.69%) Data Science
6 67 (17.77%) Mathematics
6 67 (17.77%) OOP
7 65 (17.24%) OO
8 64 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (16.98%) Visualisation
9 57 (15.12%) Agile
10 56 (14.85%) Workflow
11 52 (13.79%) LLM
11 52 (13.79%) Low Latency
12 43 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (11.14%) Data Privacy
13 42 (11.14%) Decision-Making
13 42 (11.14%) DevOps
14 41 (10.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 229 (60.74%) Python
2 103 (27.32%) C++
3 52 (13.79%) SQL
4 44 (11.67%) C
5 40 (10.61%) Java
6 33 (8.75%) C#
7 17 (4.51%) R
8 14 (3.71%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.71%) MATLAB
9 11 (2.92%) Rust
10 8 (2.12%) Assembly Language
11 7 (1.86%) Go
12 6 (1.59%) Scala
13 4 (1.06%) Bash
13 4 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.80%) Fortran
14 3 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.80%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.80%) Tcl
14 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 140 (37.14%) Degree
2 63 (16.71%) Master's Degree
3 62 (16.45%) PhD
4 37 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (9.02%) AWS Certification
6 33 (8.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 30 (7.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (7.16%) Security Cleared
9 23 (6.10%) SC Cleared
10 8 (2.12%) CISM
10 8 (2.12%) CISSP
11 7 (1.86%) CISA
11 7 (1.86%) CRISC
12 6 (1.59%) DV Cleared
13 5 (1.33%) MBA
14 4 (1.06%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.06%) Postgraduate
15 1 (0.27%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (3.18%) QA
4 11 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.12%) CDISC
5 8 (2.12%) GxP
5 8 (2.12%) HL7
6 7 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.53%) EMIR
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
9 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.27%) GDPR
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (4.24%) Firmware
2 15 (3.98%) Docker
3 5 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.33%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
4 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (11.67%) Google
2 40 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.51%) IBM
4 11 (2.92%) Databricks
5 9 (2.39%) Altera
5 9 (2.39%) Screaming Frog
6 7 (1.86%) YouTube
7 6 (1.59%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.59%) Oracle
8 5 (1.33%) BT
8 5 (1.33%) Xilinx
9 4 (1.06%) Adobe
10 3 (0.80%) Facebook
10 3 (0.80%) Instagram
10 3 (0.80%) TikTok
11 2 (0.53%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.53%) SAP
12 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.27%) Charles River
12 1 (0.27%) Salesforce