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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 240 199
Rank change year-on-year -73 -41 +76
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 551 582 996
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.33% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 3.16% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 363 254 409
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £49,611 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £81,250 £110,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £135,250 £99,800
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +9.52% -13.10%

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 24,457 18,413 23,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.73% 42.08% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16,027 9,330 14,247
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,385
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 August 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 August 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 -84 207 £90,000 -18.18% 462
South East -39 124 £67,500 +8.87% 110
East of England +1 95 £65,000 +18.18% 94
North of England -17 56 £50,000 - 70
South West -48 45 £56,000 +22.07% 51
Midlands -33 26 £40,250 -30.00% 37
Yorkshire -7 24 £37,500 +7.14% 19
West Midlands -18 20 £40,250 -32.92% 17
North West -19 18 £60,000 +20.00% 37
North East -45 14 £56,000 -51.30% 16
East Midlands -23 5 £47,500 +75.93% 20
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 18 (3.27%) Jupyter
2 11 (2.00%) CMS
3 7 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.09%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.36%) Confluence
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.18%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (3.27%) Chatbot
2 12 (2.18%) Simulink
3 3 (0.54%) Blender
3 3 (0.54%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) CATIA
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.18%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 92 (16.70%) AWS
2 54 (9.80%) Azure
3 27 (4.90%) GCP
4 19 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (2.72%) SaaS
6 14 (2.54%) GitHub
6 14 (2.54%) Google Analytics
7 13 (2.36%) Google Ads
8 10 (1.81%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.27%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.09%) Slack
11 5 (0.91%) Prefect
11 5 (0.91%) Vertex AI
11 5 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.63%) Broadband
2 13 (2.36%) Multicast
3 8 (1.45%) LTE
4 7 (1.27%) 3GPP
4 7 (1.27%) 5G
4 7 (1.27%) GSM
4 7 (1.27%) Radio Access Network
4 7 (1.27%) RANAP
4 7 (1.27%) SS7
4 7 (1.27%) UMTS
4 7 (1.27%) Wireshark
5 6 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (0.73%) Internet
6 4 (0.73%) Wireless
7 3 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.36%) Firewall
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) MQTT
9 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.81%) Metadata
2 20 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.54%) Big Data
4 12 (2.18%) BigQuery
5 11 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.45%) Power BI
7 7 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.09%) GIS
9 5 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.73%) MySQL
10 4 (0.73%) Redis
10 4 (0.73%) Tableau
11 3 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.54%) KDB
12 2 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (12.70%) Git
2 35 (6.35%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.45%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.09%) JIRA
5 14 (2.54%) GitLab
6 10 (1.81%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.27%) GCC
7 7 (1.27%) GDB
8 4 (0.73%) CMake
9 3 (0.54%) PetaLinux
9 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.36%) MLflow
10 2 (0.36%) Plastic SCM
10 2 (0.36%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.18%) Valgrind
General
1 122 (22.14%) Finance
2 72 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (12.52%) Social Skills
4 41 (7.44%) Retail
5 39 (7.08%) Marketing
6 38 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.44%) Banking
8 27 (4.90%) Electronics
9 21 (3.81%) Games
9 21 (3.81%) Manufacturing
10 20 (3.63%) Aerospace
11 18 (3.27%) Front Office
12 15 (2.72%) Legal
13 14 (2.54%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.36%) Advertising
14 13 (2.36%) Law
15 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.63%) Automotive
17 7 (1.27%) Investment Banking
18 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (28.68%) Software Engineer
2 129 (23.41%) Senior
3 105 (19.06%) Developer
4 48 (8.71%) Senior Software Engineer
5 44 (7.99%) Python Developer
6 42 (7.62%) Lead
7 39 (7.08%) Embedded Engineer
8 38 (6.90%) Senior Developer
9 37 (6.72%) C++ Software Engineer
10 31 (5.63%) Data Scientist
11 26 (4.72%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.81%) FPGA Engineer
13 20 (3.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Python Software Engineer
14 19 (3.45%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 18 (3.27%) Quantitative Developer
16 16 (2.90%) Senior Python Developer
16 16 (2.90%) SEO Specialist
17 15 (2.72%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
17 15 (2.72%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (7.08%) NumPy
1 39 (7.08%) Pandas
2 32 (5.81%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 29 (5.26%) PyTorch
4 25 (4.54%) React
5 24 (4.36%) TensorFlow
6 23 (4.17%) HTML
7 21 (3.81%) Streamlit
8 20 (3.63%) scikit-learn
9 19 (3.45%) CSS
10 18 (3.27%) .NET
11 17 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (3.09%) Hugging Face
12 16 (2.90%) Matplotlib
13 15 (2.72%) REST
14 14 (2.54%) Django
15 13 (2.36%) pytest
16 11 (2.00%) Kafka
17 10 (1.81%) Yocto
18 9 (1.63%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.61%) Data Structures
2 41 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.72%) Embedded Systems
4 34 (6.17%) Equities
5 29 (5.26%) FPGA
6 21 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.81%) Robotics
6 21 (3.81%) VHDL
7 19 (3.45%) Hedge funds
8 18 (3.27%) Management Information System
9 17 (3.09%) PCIe
10 14 (2.54%) Derivative
10 14 (2.54%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (2.18%) Driving Licence
11 12 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.81%) NVMe
12 10 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
12 10 (1.81%) Verilog
13 9 (1.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.98%) Linux
2 14 (2.54%) Windows
3 10 (1.81%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.73%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.54%) Unix
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (45.19%) Software Engineering
2 152 (27.59%) AI
3 149 (27.04%) Computer Science
4 131 (23.77%) Machine Learning
5 101 (18.33%) Agile
6 99 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 92 (16.70%) Data Science
8 75 (13.61%) Analytics
9 66 (11.98%) Mathematics
10 65 (11.80%) CI/CD
11 58 (10.53%) OOP
11 58 (10.53%) Test Automation
12 57 (10.34%) Signal Processing
13 54 (9.80%) OO
14 53 (9.62%) Mentoring
15 52 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (8.89%) SDLC
16 49 (8.89%) Visualisation
17 48 (8.71%) Decision-Making
17 48 (8.71%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 307 (55.72%) Python
2 150 (27.22%) C++
3 58 (10.53%) C
4 51 (9.26%) C#
5 42 (7.62%) SQL
6 35 (6.35%) Java
7 25 (4.54%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.36%) MATLAB
9 23 (4.17%) JavaScript
10 22 (3.99%) Rust
11 16 (2.90%) Embedded C++
12 15 (2.72%) Go
13 13 (2.36%) Embedded C
14 12 (2.18%) Assembly Language
15 10 (1.81%) R
16 4 (0.73%) Bash
16 4 (0.73%) VBA
17 3 (0.54%) Fortran
17 3 (0.54%) Julia
18 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (26.68%) Degree
2 66 (11.98%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (6.17%) Master's Degree
5 33 (5.99%) SC Cleared
6 27 (4.90%) DV Cleared
7 23 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 23 (4.17%) PhD
8 16 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (2.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HND
12 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.63%) QA
2 12 (2.18%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.18%) GDPR
3 9 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.09%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.09%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.09%) MISRA
5 6 (1.09%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.18%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.18%) EMIR
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 50 (9.07%) Docker
2 43 (7.80%) Firmware
3 22 (3.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 28 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.36%) Terraform
3 6 (1.09%) Kubeflow
4 5 (0.91%) SCCM
4 5 (0.91%) SCOM
4 5 (0.91%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (0.36%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 47 (8.53%) Google
2 28 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (2.18%) Screaming Frog
4 11 (2.00%) Xilinx
5 10 (1.81%) Altera
5 10 (1.81%) IBM
6 9 (1.63%) Databricks
7 6 (1.09%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.09%) Botify
8 5 (0.91%) Dell
8 5 (0.91%) HP
8 5 (0.91%) McAfee
8 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 5 (0.91%) VMware
9 4 (0.73%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) Sitebulb
9 4 (0.73%) TikTok
10 3 (0.54%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.36%) MathWorks
11 2 (0.36%) MicroStrategy