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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 251 217
Rank change year-on-year -90 -34 +63
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 538 513 814
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.19% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 2.86% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 335 233 359
10th Percentile £36,730 £36,885 £43,500
25th Percentile £53,375 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,600 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +6.17% -8.28%
75th Percentile £83,750 £111,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £145,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -7.14%

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 27,496 17,952 21,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.45% 41.72% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,712 9,260 10,427
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -131 160 £80,000 -27.27% 880
South East -9 146 £72,500 +13.15% 155
East of England +8 122 £65,000 +18.18% 145
North of England -49 40 £50,000 +42.86% 89
South West -71 37 £60,000 +47.09% 68
Midlands -34 31 £67,500 +1.89% 67
Yorkshire -32 18 £37,241 +6.40% 27
West Midlands -42 16 £67,500 +22.73% 41
East Midlands -19 15 £76,250 +0.46% 26
North West -27 11 £55,000 +22.22% 54
North East - 11 £59,750 - 8
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 8 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.12%) SAS
3 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.19%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (5.02%) Simulink
2 5 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.93%) Mathematica
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) Maya
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.19%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (1.67%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (11.90%) AWS
2 45 (8.36%) Azure
3 20 (3.72%) GCP
4 16 (2.97%) GitHub
5 14 (2.60%) Google Ads
5 14 (2.60%) Google Analytics
6 12 (2.23%) SaaS
7 10 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (1.49%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.93%) Vertex AI
10 5 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.74%) Slack
12 3 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (0.56%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.60%) Wireless
2 13 (2.42%) Multicast
3 12 (2.23%) LTE
4 11 (2.04%) Broadband
5 10 (1.86%) 5G
6 7 (1.30%) 3GPP
6 7 (1.30%) GSM
6 7 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (1.30%) RANAP
6 7 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
6 7 (1.30%) SS7
6 7 (1.30%) UMTS
6 7 (1.30%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.56%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
8 2 (0.37%) Firewall
8 2 (0.37%) MQTT
9 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.19%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.72%) Big Data
2 17 (3.16%) Metadata
3 16 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.49%) Power BI
5 7 (1.30%) GIS
6 5 (0.93%) MySQL
6 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.74%) KDB
7 4 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.74%) Redis
7 4 (0.74%) Tableau
8 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.37%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 63 (11.71%) Git
2 18 (3.35%) JIRA
3 17 (3.16%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (2.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 10 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.67%) GitLab
7 7 (1.30%) GCC
7 7 (1.30%) GDB
8 6 (1.12%) MLflow
8 6 (1.12%) PetaLinux
9 4 (0.74%) CMake
10 3 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
11 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.19%) QUnit
12 1 (0.19%) Subversion
12 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
General
1 92 (17.10%) Finance
1 92 (17.10%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.69%) Banking
5 34 (6.32%) Marketing
6 30 (5.58%) Electronics
7 29 (5.39%) Aerospace
8 27 (5.02%) Retail
9 16 (2.97%) Advertising
10 14 (2.60%) Law
11 13 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.23%) Front Office
13 10 (1.86%) Legal
14 9 (1.67%) Military
15 8 (1.49%) Automotive
15 8 (1.49%) Games
16 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 142 (26.39%) Software Engineer
2 119 (22.12%) Senior
3 71 (13.20%) Developer
4 52 (9.67%) Lead
5 41 (7.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 38 (7.06%) Embedded Engineer
7 35 (6.51%) Data Scientist
8 31 (5.76%) C++ Software Engineer
9 29 (5.39%) Python Engineer
10 27 (5.02%) FPGA Engineer
11 24 (4.46%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.28%) Python Software Engineer
13 21 (3.90%) Python Developer
14 19 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (3.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 18 (3.35%) Senior Embedded Engineer
16 17 (3.16%) Architect
16 17 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
17 16 (2.97%) SEO Specialist
18 15 (2.79%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.20%) React
2 27 (5.02%) PyTorch
3 26 (4.83%) .NET
4 25 (4.65%) CSS
4 25 (4.65%) HTML
5 22 (4.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 22 (4.09%) TensorFlow
6 17 (3.16%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (2.97%) STL
8 15 (2.79%) Yocto
9 13 (2.42%) pytest
10 11 (2.04%) Kafka
10 11 (2.04%) NumPy
10 11 (2.04%) Pandas
10 11 (2.04%) Terraform
11 10 (1.86%) ASP.NET
12 9 (1.67%) Node.js
13 8 (1.49%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.49%) REST
14 7 (1.30%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.20%) Data Structures
2 49 (9.11%) Embedded Systems
3 48 (8.92%) FPGA
4 37 (6.88%) Robotics
5 28 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (5.20%) Equities
6 25 (4.65%) VHDL
7 22 (4.09%) PCIe
8 16 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.97%) Verilog
9 15 (2.79%) Fixed Income
10 14 (2.60%) Derivative
11 12 (2.23%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.04%) ASIC
13 10 (1.86%) Device Driver
13 10 (1.86%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.67%) Cloud Native
14 9 (1.67%) IoT
14 9 (1.67%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.90%) Linux
2 20 (3.72%) Embedded Linux
3 14 (2.60%) Windows
4 6 (1.12%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.56%) Unix
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) CentOS
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) macOS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (42.01%) Software Engineering
2 171 (31.78%) AI
3 148 (27.51%) Machine Learning
4 144 (26.77%) Computer Science
5 106 (19.70%) Agile
6 96 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (17.29%) Data Science
8 83 (15.43%) Mathematics
9 71 (13.20%) Analytics
10 68 (12.64%) CI/CD
11 56 (10.41%) Signal Processing
12 51 (9.48%) Decision-Making
13 49 (9.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (8.92%) Test Automation
15 47 (8.74%) Validation
16 46 (8.55%) Mentoring
17 44 (8.18%) Roadmaps
18 42 (7.81%) Physics
19 40 (7.43%) Technical Leadership
20 39 (7.25%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 281 (52.23%) Python
2 163 (30.30%) C++
3 70 (13.01%) C
4 59 (10.97%) C#
5 56 (10.41%) MATLAB
6 45 (8.36%) SQL
7 41 (7.62%) Java
8 29 (5.39%) JavaScript
9 26 (4.83%) TypeScript
10 24 (4.46%) Embedded C++
11 20 (3.72%) Embedded C
12 18 (3.35%) Rust
13 12 (2.23%) Go
14 10 (1.86%) R
15 9 (1.67%) Assembly Language
16 7 (1.30%) SystemVerilog
17 4 (0.74%) Fortran
18 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.56%) VBA
19 2 (0.37%) Bash
Qualifications
1 165 (30.67%) Degree
2 86 (15.99%) Security Cleared
3 48 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (8.36%) Master's Degree
4 45 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 34 (6.32%) PhD
6 23 (4.28%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.23%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 8 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.56%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.19%) HND
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.69%) QA
2 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (2.23%) GDPR
3 11 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.12%) Automotive SPICE
4 6 (1.12%) ISO 26262
4 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.12%) MISRA
4 6 (1.12%) MISRA C
5 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.56%) NIST
7 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) ECSS
8 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (8.18%) Docker
2 42 (7.81%) Firmware
3 23 (4.28%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.19%) Ceph
6 1 (0.19%) Lustre
6 1 (0.19%) NFS
6 1 (0.19%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.74%) Kubeflow
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
3 2 (0.37%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.37%) SCCM
3 2 (0.37%) SCOM
3 2 (0.37%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 30 (5.58%) Google
2 14 (2.60%) Xilinx
3 12 (2.23%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.86%) Altera
5 8 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.49%) Screaming Frog
6 7 (1.30%) Thales
7 6 (1.12%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.12%) Databricks
7 6 (1.12%) IBM
8 5 (0.93%) Foundry
8 5 (0.93%) TikTok
9 4 (0.74%) Intel
9 4 (0.74%) Sitebulb
10 2 (0.37%) Adobe
10 2 (0.37%) Dell
10 2 (0.37%) HP
10 2 (0.37%) McAfee
10 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.37%) YouTube