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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 181 173
Rank change year-on-year -117 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 473 731 1,397
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 1.88% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 4.45% 4.74%
Number of salaries quoted 311 347 685
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £38,850
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 £91,250 £90,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £108,000
UK median annual salary £64,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +7.69% -10.34%

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 21,532 16,438 29,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.89% 42.31% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 12,266 8,245 20,802
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £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 £81,250 £76,000
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 13 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 13 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 -35 203 £95,000 -9.52% 89
South East -81 99 £60,000 -3.23% 63
North of England -20 63 £37,500 -51.46% 35
South West -73 42 £60,000 -11.11% 34
East of England -81 36 £37,500 -41.86% 40
Midlands -40 32 £55,000 -8.33% 24
North West -9 30 £37,500 -57.70% 16
West Midlands -21 21 £46,500 -22.50% 8
Yorkshire -53 21 £37,500 -28.57% 11
North East -32 12 £37,500 -63.86% 8
East Midlands -31 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
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.52%) AWS
2 54 (11.42%) Azure
3 53 (11.21%) Cloud Computing
4 37 (7.82%) GCP
5 15 (3.17%) Google Analytics
6 14 (2.96%) SaaS
7 13 (2.75%) GitHub
8 11 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 10 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.27%) Slack
10 6 (1.27%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.06%) Prefect
12 4 (0.85%) Google Ads
13 3 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (0.42%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.42%) Firebase
14 2 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.23%) Broadband
2 15 (3.17%) 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%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.21%) Firewall
8 1 (0.21%) IPsec
8 1 (0.21%) MQTT
8 1 (0.21%) RS-422
8 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.71%) BigQuery
2 25 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.23%) Metadata
4 14 (2.96%) Big Data
4 14 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.11%) Hadoop
5 10 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 9 (1.90%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.90%) Power BI
7 7 (1.48%) 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
13 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.21%) Parquet
13 1 (0.21%) Presto
13 1 (0.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (14.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 53 (11.21%) Git
3 21 (4.44%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.59%) JIRA
5 16 (3.38%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) MLflow
6 2 (0.42%) PetaLinux
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
General
1 135 (28.54%) Finance
2 69 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (13.74%) Retail
4 58 (12.26%) Social Skills
5 55 (11.63%) Manufacturing
6 34 (7.19%) Marketing
7 25 (5.29%) Front Office
8 22 (4.65%) Electronics
8 22 (4.65%) Games
9 18 (3.81%) Banking
10 14 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.75%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.75%) Automotive
12 7 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.27%) Legal
14 5 (1.06%) Law
14 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Advertising
15 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (27.70%) Software Engineer
2 113 (23.89%) 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 38 (8.03%) 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%) Linux Developer
10 21 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
10 21 (4.44%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 20 (4.23%) Lead
12 19 (4.02%) C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.64%) Pandas
2 73 (15.43%) NumPy
3 54 (11.42%) Streamlit
4 53 (11.21%) scikit-learn
5 51 (10.78%) Matplotlib
6 49 (10.36%) Hugging Face
7 45 (9.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 28 (5.92%) Django
9 24 (5.07%) PyTorch
9 24 (5.07%) TensorFlow
10 19 (4.02%) FIX Protocol
11 18 (3.81%) .NET
12 15 (3.17%) HTML
12 15 (3.17%) pytest
13 12 (2.54%) React
13 12 (2.54%) RESTful
14 10 (2.11%) CSS
14 10 (2.11%) REST
15 9 (1.90%) .NET Core
16 8 (1.69%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 87 (18.39%) Data Structures
2 52 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (7.82%) Equities
4 28 (5.92%) FPGA
5 26 (5.50%) Management Information System
6 25 (5.29%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (5.07%) Product Ownership
8 23 (4.86%) Embedded Systems
8 23 (4.86%) Hedge funds
9 19 (4.02%) PCIe
9 19 (4.02%) VHDL
10 17 (3.59%) Derivative
11 15 (3.17%) Fixed Income
12 14 (2.96%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (2.54%) NVMe
14 9 (1.90%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.69%) Cloud Native
15 8 (1.69%) Robotics
16 7 (1.48%) Driving Licence
16 7 (1.48%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.90%) Linux
2 7 (1.48%) Windows
3 5 (1.06%) Robot Operating System
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%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) Android
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (44.82%) Software Engineering
2 145 (30.66%) Computer Science
3 144 (30.44%) Machine Learning
4 137 (28.96%) AI
5 92 (19.45%) OOP
6 84 (17.76%) OO
6 84 (17.76%) Visualisation
7 80 (16.91%) Analytics
8 79 (16.70%) Data Science
9 78 (16.49%) Agile
10 70 (14.80%) Workflow
11 65 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
12 61 (12.90%) LLM
13 57 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (11.63%) SDLC
15 53 (11.21%) Mathematics
16 50 (10.57%) Neural Network
16 50 (10.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
17 49 (10.36%) Customer Service
17 49 (10.36%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 303 (64.06%) Python
2 139 (29.39%) C++
3 50 (10.57%) SQL
4 47 (9.94%) C#
5 44 (9.30%) C
6 20 (4.23%) Java
7 19 (4.02%) Rust
8 17 (3.59%) MATLAB
9 15 (3.17%) Go
10 14 (2.96%) Assembly Language
11 11 (2.33%) R
11 11 (2.33%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.69%) Embedded C
12 8 (1.69%) Embedded C++
13 7 (1.48%) 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
1 115 (24.31%) Degree
2 55 (11.63%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (8.88%) Security Cleared
6 38 (8.03%) Master's Degree
7 27 (5.71%) PhD
8 22 (4.65%) SC Cleared
9 17 (3.59%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.06%) MBA
12 4 (0.85%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.63%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.65%) QA
2 15 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 5 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.06%) GDPR
5 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.42%) EMIR
7 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
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 10 (2.11%) Terraform
3 6 (1.27%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.06%) SCCM
4 5 (1.06%) SCOM
4 5 (1.06%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 55 (11.63%) 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
12 1 (0.21%) MathWorks
12 1 (0.21%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.21%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.21%) Thales