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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 180 173
Rank change year-on-year -120 -7 +22
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 473 734 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.87% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 4.49% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 308 355 686
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £38,875
25th Percentile £42,593 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,188 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £64,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% - -10.65%

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 22,326 16,346 29,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.58% 41.74% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,317 8,446 20,860
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £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 £82,188 £75,434
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 10 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 10 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 -25 207 £95,000 -8.43% 111
South East -81 98 £60,000 -3.23% 71
North of England -52 62 £37,500 -48.09% 33
South West -79 42 £60,000 -14.29% 27
East of England -77 34 £37,500 -42.31% 40
Midlands -24 32 £55,000 -8.33% 23
North West -9 30 £37,500 -56.01% 14
West Midlands -26 21 £46,500 -22.50% 7
Yorkshire -55 21 £37,500 -16.67% 10
North East -37 11 £37,500 -63.86% 9
East Midlands -38 10 £75,000 +25.00% 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 49 (10.36%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.90%) CMS
4 6 (1.27%) SAS
5 5 (1.06%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) Apache
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (10.15%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.11%) Simulink
3 2 (0.42%) CATIA
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.42%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (2.54%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.85%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.52%) AWS
2 53 (11.21%) Azure
2 53 (11.21%) Cloud Computing
3 39 (8.25%) GCP
4 15 (3.17%) Google Analytics
5 14 (2.96%) GitHub
6 12 (2.54%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.54%) SaaS
7 10 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.27%) Slack
8 6 (1.27%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.06%) Prefect
10 4 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (0.85%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.42%) Firebase
12 2 (0.42%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.23%) Broadband
2 16 (3.38%) Multicast
3 6 (1.27%) 5G
3 6 (1.27%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.06%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.85%) Internet
5 4 (0.85%) Network Security
6 3 (0.63%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.21%) Firewall
7 1 (0.21%) IPsec
7 1 (0.21%) MQTT
7 1 (0.21%) RS-422
7 1 (0.21%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.92%) BigQuery
2 25 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.23%) Metadata
4 15 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (2.75%) Big Data
6 10 (2.11%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.11%) Power BI
7 8 (1.69%) Tableau
8 6 (1.27%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.85%) GIS
10 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
13 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 68 (14.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 53 (11.21%) Git
3 21 (4.44%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (3.81%) JIRA
5 16 (3.38%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) PetaLinux
General
1 135 (28.54%) Finance
2 70 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (13.74%) Retail
4 59 (12.47%) Social Skills
5 54 (11.42%) Manufacturing
6 34 (7.19%) Marketing
7 28 (5.92%) Front Office
8 22 (4.65%) Games
9 21 (4.44%) Electronics
10 19 (4.02%) Banking
11 15 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.75%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.75%) Automotive
13 7 (1.48%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.27%) Legal
15 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.06%) Law
15 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.85%) Advertising
17 3 (0.63%) French Language
Job Titles
1 128 (27.06%) Software Engineer
2 112 (23.68%) Senior
3 86 (18.18%) Developer
4 46 (9.73%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (9.73%) Programmer
4 46 (9.73%) Senior Software Engineer
5 45 (9.51%) Python Developer
5 45 (9.51%) Trainee
5 45 (9.51%) Trainee Programmer
6 42 (8.88%) Senior Developer
7 39 (8.25%) C++ Software Engineer
8 25 (5.29%) Python Engineer
9 22 (4.65%) FPGA Engineer
9 22 (4.65%) Quantitative Developer
9 22 (4.65%) Senior Python Developer
10 21 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 21 (4.44%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 20 (4.23%) Lead
11 20 (4.23%) Linux Developer
12 19 (4.02%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.64%) Pandas
2 73 (15.43%) NumPy
3 55 (11.63%) Streamlit
4 53 (11.21%) scikit-learn
5 51 (10.78%) Matplotlib
6 49 (10.36%) Hugging Face
7 46 (9.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 29 (6.13%) Django
9 24 (5.07%) PyTorch
9 24 (5.07%) TensorFlow
10 23 (4.86%) FIX Protocol
11 16 (3.38%) .NET
11 16 (3.38%) pytest
12 15 (3.17%) HTML
13 12 (2.54%) RESTful
14 11 (2.33%) REST
15 10 (2.11%) CSS
15 10 (2.11%) React
16 8 (1.69%) Flask
16 8 (1.69%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 85 (17.97%) Data Structures
2 53 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (8.46%) Equities
4 27 (5.71%) FPGA
5 26 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 25 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (4.86%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.65%) Hedge funds
9 21 (4.44%) Embedded Systems
10 19 (4.02%) Derivative
10 19 (4.02%) PCIe
10 19 (4.02%) VHDL
11 16 (3.38%) Fixed Income
12 13 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.54%) NVMe
14 11 (2.33%) Cloud Native
15 8 (1.69%) Public Cloud
16 7 (1.48%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.48%) Low-Code
17 6 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.90%) Linux
2 7 (1.48%) Windows
3 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (0.85%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) Android
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (43.76%) Software Engineering
2 144 (30.44%) Machine Learning
3 142 (30.02%) Computer Science
4 137 (28.96%) AI
5 91 (19.24%) OOP
6 84 (17.76%) OO
6 84 (17.76%) Visualisation
7 80 (16.91%) Data Science
8 78 (16.49%) Agile
8 78 (16.49%) Analytics
9 71 (15.01%) Workflow
10 63 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (12.90%) LLM
12 56 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (11.42%) Mathematics
14 53 (11.21%) SDLC
15 50 (10.57%) Neural Network
15 50 (10.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 49 (10.36%) Customer Service
16 49 (10.36%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 302 (63.85%) Python
2 138 (29.18%) C++
3 53 (11.21%) SQL
4 45 (9.51%) C#
5 43 (9.09%) C
6 20 (4.23%) Java
7 18 (3.81%) Rust
8 16 (3.38%) MATLAB
9 14 (2.96%) Assembly Language
9 14 (2.96%) Go
10 11 (2.33%) R
11 9 (1.90%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.48%) Embedded C
12 7 (1.48%) Embedded C++
13 6 (1.27%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.06%) Scala
15 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.63%) Julia
16 3 (0.63%) VBA
17 2 (0.42%) Bash
Qualifications
1 112 (23.68%) Degree
2 54 (11.42%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 42 (8.88%) Security Cleared
5 38 (8.03%) Master's Degree
6 27 (5.71%) PhD
7 22 (4.65%) SC Cleared
8 17 (3.59%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.06%) MBA
11 4 (0.85%) Postgraduate
12 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.21%) CEH
13 1 (0.21%) CISM
13 1 (0.21%) CISSP
13 1 (0.21%) GIAC
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.86%) QA
2 16 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.27%) GDPR
5 5 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.42%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (5.92%) Firmware
2 27 (5.71%) Docker
3 12 (2.54%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.06%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.06%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.69%) Terraform
3 6 (1.27%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.06%) SCCM
4 5 (1.06%) SCOM
4 5 (1.06%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.99%) Google
3 16 (3.38%) Altera
4 14 (2.96%) Databricks
4 14 (2.96%) IBM
5 13 (2.75%) Xilinx
6 10 (2.11%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (1.27%) Botify
8 5 (1.06%) BT
8 5 (1.06%) Dell
8 5 (1.06%) HP
8 5 (1.06%) McAfee
8 5 (1.06%) VMware
9 4 (0.85%) Ahrefs
10 3 (0.63%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle
11 2 (0.42%) Thales
12 1 (0.21%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.21%) YouTube