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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 165 197
Rank change year-on-year -153 +32 -39
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 374 782 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.84% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 4.81% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 209 371 625
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,082 £52,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,500 £112,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -6.90%

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 19,952 16,243 24,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.66% 38.15% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,258 7,800 18,147
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,800 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -24 180 £100,000 - 103
South East -124 53 £67,500 +8.00% 69
North of England -32 43 £37,500 -46.43% 37
East of England -53 36 £55,000 -27.63% 33
South West -83 34 £40,792 -37.24% 37
North West -3 25 £37,500 -56.01% 20
Midlands -28 21 £55,000 -8.33% 28
West Midlands -1 14 £41,250 -31.25% 14
Yorkshire -41 13 £37,500 -16.67% 9
East Midlands -37 7 £75,000 +25.00% 14
North East -6 5 £37,500 -37.50% 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 41 (10.96%) Jupyter
2 11 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.67%) Kinematics
4 7 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.34%) IIS
6 3 (0.80%) CMS
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
Applications
1 41 (10.96%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.87%) Simulink
3 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.80%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.27%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.07%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 88 (23.53%) AWS
2 45 (12.03%) Azure
2 45 (12.03%) Cloud Computing
3 37 (9.89%) GCP
4 16 (4.28%) GitHub
5 14 (3.74%) Google Analytics
6 13 (3.48%) Azure Machine Learning
6 13 (3.48%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.41%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.34%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.07%) dbt
9 4 (1.07%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (1.07%) LangSmith
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (0.80%) Canva
10 3 (0.80%) Firebase
10 3 (0.80%) Slack
11 2 (0.53%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.94%) Multicast
2 8 (2.14%) Software-Defined Radio
3 6 (1.60%) Broadband
4 5 (1.34%) Ethernet
4 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.07%) Network Security
6 1 (0.27%) Internet
6 1 (0.27%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.27%) VPN
6 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.08%) BigQuery
1 19 (5.08%) Metadata
2 18 (4.81%) Big Data
2 18 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.48%) Power BI
4 12 (3.21%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 11 (2.94%) Tableau
6 8 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.34%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.34%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.80%) Looker
10 3 (0.80%) Redis
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.27%) MySQL
11 1 (0.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 44 (11.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 20 (5.35%) Git
3 19 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
4 12 (3.21%) JIRA
5 6 (1.60%) MLflow
6 3 (0.80%) GitLab
6 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.53%) JConsole
7 2 (0.53%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 140 (37.43%) Finance
2 83 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 65 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (13.64%) Retail
5 47 (12.57%) Manufacturing
6 39 (10.43%) Electronics
6 39 (10.43%) Marketing
7 38 (10.16%) Front Office
8 21 (5.61%) Banking
8 21 (5.61%) Games
9 18 (4.81%) Law
10 17 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (3.21%) Automotive
13 10 (2.67%) Legal
13 10 (2.67%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.87%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.87%) Telecoms
16 6 (1.60%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 73 (19.52%) Senior
2 65 (17.38%) Software Engineer
3 57 (15.24%) Developer
4 41 (10.96%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 41 (10.96%) Programmer
4 41 (10.96%) Trainee
4 41 (10.96%) Trainee Programmer
5 35 (9.36%) Lead
6 27 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 25 (6.68%) Quantitative Developer
8 24 (6.42%) C++ Software Engineer
9 23 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (5.61%) Principal Engineer
11 20 (5.35%) Python Developer
12 19 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 18 (4.81%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (4.81%) Linux Developer
13 18 (4.81%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 18 (4.81%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (4.81%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.37%) scikit-learn
2 49 (13.10%) Pandas
3 48 (12.83%) NumPy
4 44 (11.76%) Matplotlib
5 43 (11.50%) Streamlit
6 42 (11.23%) Hugging Face
7 34 (9.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 25 (6.68%) TensorFlow
9 24 (6.42%) Django
10 22 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
11 19 (5.08%) PyTorch
12 14 (3.74%) .NET
13 12 (3.21%) Kafka
14 11 (2.94%) pytest
15 10 (2.67%) HTML
15 10 (2.67%) Middleware
16 9 (2.41%) React
16 9 (2.41%) RESTful
17 8 (2.14%) CSS
18 7 (1.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 64 (17.11%) Data Structures
2 41 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (10.43%) Equities
4 26 (6.95%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.88%) Hedge funds
6 19 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 19 (5.08%) Derivative
6 19 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.48%) Robotics
8 12 (3.21%) Fixed Income
8 12 (3.21%) FPGA
8 12 (3.21%) Social Media
9 11 (2.94%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
11 9 (2.41%) Life Science
11 9 (2.41%) PCIe
12 8 (2.14%) 3D Graphics
13 7 (1.87%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.50%) Linux
2 4 (1.07%) Android
2 4 (1.07%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.80%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (42.78%) AI
2 144 (38.50%) Machine Learning
3 122 (32.62%) Software Engineering
4 120 (32.09%) Computer Science
5 100 (26.74%) Analytics
6 77 (20.59%) Data Science
7 73 (19.52%) OOP
8 72 (19.25%) Visualisation
9 71 (18.98%) OO
10 63 (16.84%) Mathematics
10 63 (16.84%) Workflow
11 61 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
12 60 (16.04%) LLM
13 54 (14.44%) Agile
14 50 (13.37%) Data Privacy
15 48 (12.83%) Low Latency
16 47 (12.57%) Neural Network
17 44 (11.76%) Customer Service
17 44 (11.76%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 43 (11.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (61.50%) Python
2 103 (27.54%) C++
3 52 (13.90%) SQL
4 45 (12.03%) C
5 37 (9.89%) Java
6 33 (8.82%) C#
7 17 (4.55%) R
8 15 (4.01%) MATLAB
9 14 (3.74%) JavaScript
10 12 (3.21%) Rust
11 8 (2.14%) Assembly Language
12 7 (1.87%) Go
13 5 (1.34%) Scala
14 4 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.80%) Bash
15 3 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.80%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.80%) Swift
15 3 (0.80%) Tcl
15 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 135 (36.10%) Degree
2 59 (15.78%) Master's Degree
3 56 (14.97%) PhD
4 42 (11.23%) AWS Certification
5 41 (10.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 37 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (7.49%) Security Cleared
8 27 (7.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (6.15%) SC Cleared
10 8 (2.14%) CISM
10 8 (2.14%) CISSP
11 7 (1.87%) CISA
11 7 (1.87%) CRISC
11 7 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.34%) MBA
13 4 (1.07%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.07%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.27%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 11 (2.94%) QA
4 10 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.87%) CDISC
5 7 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.87%) GxP
5 7 (1.87%) HL7
5 7 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.53%) EMIR
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (4.28%) Firmware
2 15 (4.01%) Docker
3 5 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.34%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
4 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 48 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.03%) Google
3 14 (3.74%) IBM
4 11 (2.94%) Databricks
5 9 (2.41%) Altera
5 9 (2.41%) Screaming Frog
6 8 (2.14%) YouTube
7 6 (1.60%) Ahrefs
8 5 (1.34%) BT
8 5 (1.34%) Oracle
8 5 (1.34%) Xilinx
9 3 (0.80%) Adobe
9 3 (0.80%) Facebook
9 3 (0.80%) Instagram
9 3 (0.80%) TikTok
10 2 (0.53%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.53%) SAP
11 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.27%) Charles River
11 1 (0.27%) Huawei