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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 186 175
Rank change year-on-year -107 -11 +21
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 471 741 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.90% 1.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.11% 4.56% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 305 355 687
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £38,900
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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -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 22,312 16,242 29,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.63% 41.69% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,383 20,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £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 £82,000 £75,997
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 9 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 9 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 -39 208 £95,000 -8.43% 99
South East -85 97 £60,000 -3.23% 73
North of England -61 62 £37,500 -48.09% 31
South West -75 42 £60,000 -14.29% 28
Midlands -45 32 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East of England -79 32 £37,500 -42.31% 35
North West -30 30 £37,500 -56.01% 13
West Midlands -32 21 £46,500 -22.50% 7
Yorkshire -47 21 £37,500 -16.67% 9
North East -40 11 £37,500 -63.86% 9
East Midlands -34 10 £75,000 +25.00% 14
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 (10.40%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.91%) 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 (10.19%) Chatbot
2 10 (2.12%) 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 (2.55%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.85%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.63%) AWS
2 53 (11.25%) Azure
2 53 (11.25%) Cloud Computing
3 39 (8.28%) GCP
4 15 (3.18%) Google Analytics
5 14 (2.97%) GitHub
6 12 (2.55%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.55%) SaaS
7 10 (2.12%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.27%) Slack
8 6 (1.27%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.06%) Prefect
10 4 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (0.85%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.42%) Firebase
12 2 (0.42%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.46%) Broadband
2 15 (3.18%) 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 (0.64%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.21%) Firewall
7 1 (0.21%) IPsec
7 1 (0.21%) MQTT
7 1 (0.21%) RS-422
7 1 (0.21%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.21%) VPN
7 1 (0.21%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.94%) BigQuery
2 25 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.25%) Metadata
4 16 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (2.97%) Big Data
6 11 (2.34%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.12%) Hadoop
7 10 (2.12%) Power BI
8 8 (1.70%) Tableau
9 6 (1.27%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.85%) GIS
11 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.21%) Presto
14 1 (0.21%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 68 (14.44%) Visual Studio Code
2 54 (11.46%) Git
3 21 (4.46%) Rational DOORS
4 17 (3.61%) JIRA
5 16 (3.40%) GitLab
6 3 (0.64%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) PetaLinux
General
1 135 (28.66%) Finance
2 72 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (13.80%) Retail
4 60 (12.74%) Social Skills
5 54 (11.46%) Manufacturing
6 35 (7.43%) Marketing
7 28 (5.94%) Front Office
8 22 (4.67%) Games
9 21 (4.46%) Electronics
10 18 (3.82%) Banking
11 15 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (2.76%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.76%) Automotive
13 7 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.27%) Legal
15 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.06%) Law
15 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.85%) Advertising
16 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (26.54%) Software Engineer
2 111 (23.57%) Senior
3 85 (18.05%) Developer
4 46 (9.77%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (9.77%) Programmer
5 45 (9.55%) Python Developer
5 45 (9.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 45 (9.55%) Trainee
5 45 (9.55%) Trainee Programmer
6 41 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 38 (8.07%) C++ Software Engineer
8 24 (5.10%) Python Engineer
9 22 (4.67%) FPGA Engineer
9 22 (4.67%) Quantitative Developer
9 22 (4.67%) Senior Python Developer
10 21 (4.46%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 20 (4.25%) Linux Developer
11 20 (4.25%) Python Software Engineer
12 19 (4.03%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (4.03%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.71%) Pandas
2 73 (15.50%) NumPy
3 56 (11.89%) Streamlit
4 53 (11.25%) scikit-learn
5 51 (10.83%) Matplotlib
6 49 (10.40%) Hugging Face
7 45 (9.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 30 (6.37%) Django
9 25 (5.31%) TensorFlow
10 24 (5.10%) PyTorch
11 22 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
12 16 (3.40%) .NET
13 15 (3.18%) HTML
13 15 (3.18%) pytest
14 12 (2.55%) RESTful
15 11 (2.34%) REST
16 10 (2.12%) CSS
16 10 (2.12%) React
17 9 (1.91%) Flask
18 8 (1.70%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.05%) Data Structures
2 53 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (8.28%) Equities
4 27 (5.73%) FPGA
5 26 (5.52%) Management Information System
6 25 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (4.88%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.67%) Hedge funds
9 21 (4.46%) Embedded Systems
10 19 (4.03%) PCIe
10 19 (4.03%) VHDL
11 18 (3.82%) Derivative
12 15 (3.18%) Fixed Income
13 13 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (2.55%) NVMe
15 11 (2.34%) Cloud Native
16 8 (1.70%) Public Cloud
17 7 (1.49%) Driving Licence
17 7 (1.49%) Low-Code
18 6 (1.27%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.74%) Linux
2 7 (1.49%) Windows
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%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.64%) Android
5 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Unix
7 1 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (43.31%) Software Engineering
2 146 (31.00%) Machine Learning
3 141 (29.94%) Computer Science
4 136 (28.87%) AI
5 90 (19.11%) OOP
6 85 (18.05%) Visualisation
7 84 (17.83%) OO
8 82 (17.41%) Data Science
9 79 (16.77%) Analytics
10 78 (16.56%) Agile
11 70 (14.86%) Workflow
12 64 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
13 61 (12.95%) LLM
14 56 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 54 (11.46%) Mathematics
16 52 (11.04%) SDLC
17 51 (10.83%) Neural Network
18 50 (10.62%) Customer Service
18 50 (10.62%) DevOps
18 50 (10.62%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 302 (64.12%) Python
2 137 (29.09%) C++
3 54 (11.46%) SQL
4 45 (9.55%) C#
5 43 (9.13%) C
6 20 (4.25%) Java
7 18 (3.82%) Rust
8 16 (3.40%) MATLAB
9 14 (2.97%) Assembly Language
9 14 (2.97%) Go
10 11 (2.34%) R
11 9 (1.91%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.49%) Embedded C
12 7 (1.49%) Embedded C++
13 6 (1.27%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.06%) Scala
15 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.64%) Julia
16 3 (0.64%) VBA
17 2 (0.42%) VC++
Qualifications
1 113 (23.99%) Degree
2 54 (11.46%) AWS Certification
3 48 (10.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 43 (9.13%) Security Cleared
5 42 (8.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (8.07%) Master's Degree
7 27 (5.73%) PhD
8 23 (4.88%) SC Cleared
9 17 (3.61%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.06%) MBA
12 4 (0.85%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.21%) CEH
14 1 (0.21%) CISM
14 1 (0.21%) CISSP
14 1 (0.21%) GIAC
14 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.67%) QA
2 16 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 6 (1.27%) GDPR
5 5 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.42%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.21%) NIST
8 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (5.94%) Docker
1 28 (5.94%) Firmware
2 12 (2.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.06%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.70%) Terraform
3 6 (1.27%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.06%) SCCM
4 5 (1.06%) SCOM
4 5 (1.06%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 54 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.04%) Google
3 16 (3.40%) Altera
4 14 (2.97%) Databricks
4 14 (2.97%) IBM
5 13 (2.76%) Xilinx
6 10 (2.12%) 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 (0.64%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle
11 2 (0.42%) Thales
12 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.21%) Charles River
12 1 (0.21%) MathWorks