Algorithms Jobs 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 176 194
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 -64
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 946 1,415 1,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.96% 1.63% 1.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.18% 4.73% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 593 684 764
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £41,400
25th Percentile £62,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £64,097 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% -14.54% -
75th Percentile - £84,063 £96,250
90th Percentile £99,695 £108,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,600 £63,195 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.72% -15.74% +4.90%

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 18,245 29,928 38,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.75% 34.54% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,343 20,826 20,814
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in England.

Salary trend for Algorithms in England

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 2025. 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
South East +51 484 £70,600 +21.72% 1,072
London +42 244 £110,000 +29.41% 1,002
South West +43 68 £50,000 -16.67% 403
East of England -32 55 £54,000 -16.92% 539
North of England -49 53 £85,253 +55.00% 749
North West -83 39 £88,662 +47.77% 351
Midlands -40 36 £60,000 -4.00% 623
West Midlands +6 20 £60,000 +4.35% 337
East Midlands -21 16 £60,000 -20.27% 250
Yorkshire +53 11 £65,000 +30.00% 281
North East +48 3 £115,000 +26.10% 117
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (2.64%) Jupyter
2 14 (1.48%) Kinematics
3 13 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 8 (0.85%) Apache
5 6 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.42%) CMS
6 4 (0.42%) GemFire
7 3 (0.32%) Confluence
7 3 (0.32%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.90%) Simulink
2 12 (1.27%) Mathcad
3 9 (0.95%) Final Cut Pro
4 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
5 5 (0.53%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.32%) InDesign
7 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.21%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.21%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (11.95%) Azure
2 98 (10.36%) AWS
3 53 (5.60%) GCP
4 34 (3.59%) SaaS
5 17 (1.80%) Power Platform
6 15 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
6 15 (1.59%) Vertex AI
7 14 (1.48%) Google Analytics
8 12 (1.27%) Azure AI
9 11 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
9 11 (1.16%) Canva
9 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.63%) Snowflake
13 5 (0.53%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.06%) Multicast
2 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.21%) Internet
3 2 (0.21%) MQTT
3 2 (0.21%) RS-485
3 2 (0.21%) RTP
3 2 (0.21%) S/MIME
3 2 (0.21%) SSL
3 2 (0.21%) WAN
3 2 (0.21%) X.509
4 1 (0.11%) DVB
4 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.34%) NoSQL
2 59 (6.24%) Big Data
3 29 (3.07%) Data Mining
4 22 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.80%) Power BI
7 16 (1.69%) Tableau
8 12 (1.27%) DB2
9 11 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.06%) SQL Server
11 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.85%) Cloud Spanner
12 8 (0.85%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.85%) Redis
13 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.63%) KDB
15 5 (0.53%) Apache Hive
15 5 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 315 (33.30%) Rational DOORS
2 57 (6.03%) Git
3 22 (2.33%) JIRA
4 19 (2.01%) Eclipse
4 19 (2.01%) IntelliJ
4 19 (2.01%) Jasmine
4 19 (2.01%) JUnit
4 19 (2.01%) Karma Test Runner
4 19 (2.01%) Mockito
4 19 (2.01%) Protractor
5 12 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.74%) Gradle
6 7 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.53%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.53%) Vite
8 4 (0.42%) Bazaar
8 4 (0.42%) webpack
9 2 (0.21%) GitLab
9 2 (0.21%) MLflow
General
1 384 (40.59%) Electronics
2 191 (20.19%) Finance
3 153 (16.17%) Social Skills
4 111 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (9.83%) Law
6 88 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (6.98%) Banking
8 42 (4.44%) Marketing
9 40 (4.23%) Retail
10 38 (4.02%) Games
11 30 (3.17%) Front Office
12 26 (2.75%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (2.43%) Legal
15 16 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.69%) Public Sector
16 12 (1.27%) Automotive
17 9 (0.95%) Advertising
18 7 (0.74%) Aerospace
19 6 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 315 (33.30%) Systems Engineer
2 314 (33.19%) Senior
3 183 (19.34%) Principal Engineer
4 177 (18.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 138 (14.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 105 (11.10%) Software Engineer
7 101 (10.68%) Developer
8 96 (10.15%) Data Scientist
9 77 (8.14%) Lead
10 57 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 43 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
12 33 (3.49%) Java Developer
13 28 (2.96%) Senior Developer
14 27 (2.85%) C++ Developer
14 27 (2.85%) Quantitative Developer
15 24 (2.54%) Radar Engineer
16 23 (2.43%) C++ Software Engineer
17 22 (2.33%) Software Developer
18 21 (2.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 19 (2.01%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.24%) React
2 51 (5.39%) PyTorch
3 41 (4.33%) AngularJS
4 40 (4.23%) TensorFlow
5 38 (4.02%) scikit-learn
6 34 (3.59%) Pandas
7 33 (3.49%) NumPy
8 25 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (2.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 21 (2.22%) OpenCV
11 20 (2.11%) .NET
11 20 (2.11%) Kafka
11 20 (2.11%) SciPy
12 19 (2.01%) Hibernate
12 19 (2.01%) JPA
12 19 (2.01%) Node.js
13 17 (1.80%) Middleware
14 16 (1.69%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.59%) PySpark
16 14 (1.48%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.04%) Data Structures
2 46 (4.86%) Cyberattack
3 38 (4.02%) Robotics
4 35 (3.70%) Equities
5 30 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (2.54%) Public Cloud
8 23 (2.43%) Hedge funds
9 22 (2.33%) Fixed Income
9 22 (2.33%) Virtual Team
10 20 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.11%) Social Media
11 19 (2.01%) Life Science
12 18 (1.90%) Derivative
13 17 (1.80%) Cloud Native
14 13 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.27%) Blog
15 12 (1.27%) Credit Risk
15 12 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.31%) Linux
2 31 (3.28%) Windows
3 24 (2.54%) Apple iOS
4 17 (1.80%) Unix
5 16 (1.69%) Android
6 4 (0.42%) Debian
6 4 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (39.32%) Signal Processing
2 371 (39.22%) Technical Leadership
3 368 (38.90%) Systems Engineering
4 238 (25.16%) Software Engineering
5 237 (25.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 234 (24.74%) Machine Learning
7 207 (21.88%) Data Science
8 200 (21.14%) Analytics
9 187 (19.77%) Computer Science
9 187 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
10 181 (19.13%) Mentoring
11 177 (18.71%) Test Planning
12 163 (17.23%) Agile
13 157 (16.60%) Mathematics
14 145 (15.33%) Visualisation
15 117 (12.37%) Statistics
16 107 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 103 (10.89%) MLOps
18 82 (8.67%) DevOps
18 82 (8.67%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 283 (29.92%) Python
2 137 (14.48%) Java
3 121 (12.79%) C++
4 120 (12.68%) SQL
5 110 (11.63%) R
6 58 (6.13%) C
6 58 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 44 (4.65%) C#
8 35 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.54%) MATLAB
10 13 (1.37%) Embedded C
10 13 (1.37%) Go
11 9 (0.95%) Bash
11 9 (0.95%) Fortran
12 6 (0.63%) Rust
12 6 (0.63%) Scala
13 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.42%) Ladder Logic
15 3 (0.32%) Embedded C++
16 2 (0.21%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 363 (38.37%) BPSS Clearance
2 245 (25.90%) Degree
3 116 (12.26%) Master's Degree
4 101 (10.68%) PhD
5 66 (6.98%) Security Cleared
6 59 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (6.24%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.12%) Numerate Degree
8 13 (1.37%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.16%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.21%) CISM
11 2 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (38.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 25 (2.64%) QA
3 19 (2.01%) GDPR
4 18 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.42%) NIST
7 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (7.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.53%) Apache Flume
2 5 (0.53%) Firmware
3 2 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 9 (0.95%) Terraform
3 5 (0.53%) Oozie
4 3 (0.32%) Ansible
5 2 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.11%) Grafana
6 1 (0.11%) Mesos
6 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 346 (36.58%) IBM
2 65 (6.87%) Google
3 53 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 33 (3.49%) Databricks
5 30 (3.17%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.22%) SAP
7 15 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.48%) Adobe
9 13 (1.37%) MathWorks
10 12 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.16%) Oracle
11 11 (1.16%) Workday
12 7 (0.74%) Ahrefs
13 5 (0.53%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.53%) Facebook
13 5 (0.53%) Screaming Frog
14 4 (0.42%) Remedy
14 4 (0.42%) Siemens
14 4 (0.42%) Solace
14 4 (0.42%) TIBCO