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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 250 198
Rank change year-on-year -82 -52 +82
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 539 544 957
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.25% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 2.99% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 353 236 391
10th Percentile £35,300 £37,424 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £111,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% +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 25,674 18,200 22,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.95% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 16,839 9,227 12,040
10th Percentile £31,016 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 13 September 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 September 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 -109 182 £85,000 -20.93% 649
South East -29 141 £70,000 +12.90% 121
East of England +10 105 £63,750 +15.91% 93
North of England -32 46 £56,000 +24.44% 52
South West -59 43 £60,000 +21.83% 69
Midlands -50 24 £67,500 +12.50% 41
Yorkshire -30 21 £32,500 -7.14% 13
West Midlands -28 20 £67,500 +17.39% 23
North West -14 13 £60,000 +33.33% 26
North East -51 12 £60,000 -47.83% 14
East Midlands -36 4 £81,250 +200.93% 18
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 9 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.11%) SAS
3 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 3 (0.56%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Confluence
6 1 (0.19%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.19%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (2.78%) Simulink
2 3 (0.56%) Blender
2 3 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.56%) Maya
3 2 (0.37%) CATIA
3 2 (0.37%) Mathematica
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.86%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (13.54%) AWS
2 49 (9.09%) Azure
3 24 (4.45%) GCP
4 15 (2.78%) Google Analytics
5 13 (2.41%) GitHub
5 13 (2.41%) Google Ads
6 12 (2.23%) SaaS
7 8 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (1.48%) Power Platform
8 7 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.30%) Snowflake
9 5 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (0.93%) Slack
9 5 (0.93%) Vertex AI
9 5 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.74%) Serverless
11 3 (0.56%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (0.56%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.34%) Broadband
2 11 (2.04%) Multicast
3 9 (1.67%) LTE
3 9 (1.67%) Wireless
4 8 (1.48%) 5G
5 7 (1.30%) 3GPP
5 7 (1.30%) GSM
5 7 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
5 7 (1.30%) RANAP
5 7 (1.30%) SS7
5 7 (1.30%) UMTS
5 7 (1.30%) Wireshark
6 6 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.37%) Firewall
9 1 (0.19%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.19%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.19%) MQTT
9 1 (0.19%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (3.53%) Metadata
3 17 (3.15%) Big Data
4 10 (1.86%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.48%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.48%) Power BI
6 7 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.11%) GIS
8 5 (0.93%) MySQL
8 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.74%) Redis
9 4 (0.74%) Tableau
10 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.56%) KDB
10 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (12.62%) Git
2 20 (3.71%) Visual Studio Code
3 19 (3.53%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (2.60%) GitLab
4 14 (2.60%) JIRA
5 10 (1.86%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.30%) GCC
6 7 (1.30%) GDB
7 4 (0.74%) CMake
7 4 (0.74%) MLflow
8 3 (0.56%) PetaLinux
8 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.37%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.19%) Valgrind
General
1 92 (17.07%) Finance
2 74 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 61 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (6.31%) Marketing
6 30 (5.57%) Banking
7 25 (4.64%) Aerospace
8 24 (4.45%) Electronics
9 23 (4.27%) Retail
10 15 (2.78%) Advertising
11 14 (2.60%) Front Office
11 14 (2.60%) Games
11 14 (2.60%) Law
12 13 (2.41%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.67%) Legal
15 8 (1.48%) Automotive
16 7 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (28.94%) Software Engineer
2 119 (22.08%) Senior
3 89 (16.51%) Developer
4 49 (9.09%) Lead
5 46 (8.53%) Senior Software Engineer
6 37 (6.86%) Embedded Engineer
7 36 (6.68%) Python Developer
8 33 (6.12%) C++ Software Engineer
8 33 (6.12%) Data Scientist
9 30 (5.57%) Senior Developer
10 26 (4.82%) Python Engineer
11 21 (3.90%) FPGA Engineer
12 19 (3.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 19 (3.53%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 18 (3.34%) Python Software Engineer
14 16 (2.97%) SEO Specialist
15 15 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
16 14 (2.60%) Architect
16 14 (2.60%) Quantitative Developer
17 13 (2.41%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.38%) PyTorch
2 27 (5.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (5.01%) React
3 23 (4.27%) HTML
4 22 (4.08%) .NET
4 22 (4.08%) TensorFlow
5 21 (3.90%) NumPy
5 21 (3.90%) Pandas
6 20 (3.71%) CSS
7 15 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (2.60%) REST
9 13 (2.41%) STL
10 12 (2.23%) Terraform
11 11 (2.04%) Kafka
11 11 (2.04%) pytest
12 10 (1.86%) Django
12 10 (1.86%) Yocto
13 9 (1.67%) Node.js
14 8 (1.48%) FastAPI
14 8 (1.48%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 79 (14.66%) Data Structures
2 39 (7.24%) Embedded Systems
3 34 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (5.75%) FPGA
5 29 (5.38%) Equities
6 28 (5.19%) Robotics
7 21 (3.90%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.90%) VHDL
8 19 (3.53%) PCIe
9 15 (2.78%) Hedge funds
10 13 (2.41%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.23%) Derivative
11 12 (2.23%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.23%) Video\Live Streaming
12 11 (2.04%) Verilog
13 10 (1.86%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.86%) NVMe
13 10 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.48%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 56 (10.39%) Linux
2 14 (2.60%) Windows
3 10 (1.86%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.37%) Unix
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (46.20%) Software Engineering
2 155 (28.76%) AI
3 142 (26.35%) Computer Science
4 137 (25.42%) Machine Learning
5 102 (18.92%) Agile
6 92 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (16.88%) Data Science
8 75 (13.91%) Mathematics
9 73 (13.54%) Analytics
10 67 (12.43%) CI/CD
11 56 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (10.39%) Test Automation
12 55 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 55 (10.20%) Signal Processing
13 52 (9.65%) Decision-Making
14 49 (9.09%) Validation
15 46 (8.53%) Deep Learning
16 43 (7.98%) SDLC
17 42 (7.79%) Low Latency
18 41 (7.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 290 (53.80%) Python
2 153 (28.39%) C++
3 58 (10.76%) C
4 57 (10.58%) C#
5 47 (8.72%) SQL
6 39 (7.24%) Java
7 32 (5.94%) MATLAB
8 25 (4.64%) JavaScript
8 25 (4.64%) TypeScript
9 20 (3.71%) Rust
10 16 (2.97%) Embedded C++
11 15 (2.78%) Go
12 13 (2.41%) Embedded C
13 12 (2.23%) Assembly Language
14 9 (1.67%) R
15 3 (0.56%) Fortran
15 3 (0.56%) Julia
15 3 (0.56%) VBA
16 2 (0.37%) Bash
16 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 152 (28.20%) Degree
2 77 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 40 (7.42%) Master's Degree
5 39 (7.24%) SC Cleared
6 30 (5.57%) PhD
7 27 (5.01%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.48%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISSP
12 1 (0.19%) HND
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.49%) QA
2 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.04%) GDPR
4 8 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.11%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.11%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.11%) MISRA
5 6 (1.11%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (8.72%) Docker
2 41 (7.61%) Firmware
3 22 (4.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 29 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.93%) Kubeflow
2 5 (0.93%) SCCM
2 5 (0.93%) SCOM
2 5 (0.93%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (6.68%) Google
2 12 (2.23%) Screaming Frog
3 11 (2.04%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.86%) Altera
4 10 (1.86%) IBM
4 10 (1.86%) Xilinx
5 7 (1.30%) Ahrefs
5 7 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 5 (0.93%) Databricks
6 5 (0.93%) Dell
6 5 (0.93%) HP
6 5 (0.93%) McAfee
6 5 (0.93%) TikTok
6 5 (0.93%) VMware
7 4 (0.74%) Foundry
7 4 (0.74%) Sitebulb
7 4 (0.74%) Thales
8 3 (0.56%) Rockwell
9 2 (0.37%) MathWorks
9 2 (0.37%) MicroStrategy