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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 189 201
Rank change year-on-year -114 +12 -39
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 369 735 986
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.64% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 4.33% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 198 377 610
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £43,625 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -1.48% -10.00%
75th Percentile £111,250 £85,000 £87,188
90th Percentile £135,750 £110,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.31% -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 19,461 16,991 23,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.10% 37.88% 35.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,002 8,002 17,818
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,791
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -14.71%

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 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 13 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 +6 186 £101,250 +6.58% 91
South East -98 53 £67,500 +8.00% 83
East of England -45 37 £55,000 -27.63% 25
North of England -23 33 £37,500 -40.00% 40
South West -56 31 £40,792 -37.24% 40
Midlands -12 22 £71,000 +18.33% 32
North West -4 21 £37,500 -51.46% 22
West Midlands +5 12 £50,000 -16.67% 15
Yorkshire -40 9 £37,500 -16.67% 10
East Midlands -25 8 £75,000 +25.00% 17
North East -5 3 £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 25 (6.78%) Jupyter
2 11 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.98%) Kinematics
3 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.36%) IIS
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (6.78%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.90%) Simulink
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.81%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.81%) Final Cut Pro
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.08%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Shopify
4 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.24%) AWS
2 46 (12.47%) Azure
3 38 (10.30%) GCP
4 29 (7.86%) Cloud Computing
5 16 (4.34%) GitHub
6 13 (3.52%) Azure Machine Learning
6 13 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 12 (3.25%) Google Analytics
8 9 (2.44%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.36%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.08%) dbt
10 4 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
10 4 (1.08%) LangSmith
11 3 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.81%) Canva
11 3 (0.81%) Firebase
11 3 (0.81%) Slack
12 2 (0.54%) Google App Engine
12 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.25%) Multicast
2 6 (1.63%) Broadband
2 6 (1.63%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.36%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.08%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.27%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.88%) Big Data
1 18 (4.88%) Metadata
2 17 (4.61%) BigQuery
3 16 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.52%) Power BI
5 12 (3.25%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.98%) Hadoop
6 11 (2.98%) Tableau
7 9 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.90%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.36%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.36%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.81%) Looker
11 3 (0.81%) Redis
12 2 (0.54%) KDB
13 1 (0.27%) GIS
13 1 (0.27%) MySQL
13 1 (0.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 28 (7.59%) Visual Studio Code
2 22 (5.96%) Rational DOORS
3 20 (5.42%) Git
4 13 (3.52%) JIRA
5 6 (1.63%) MLflow
6 3 (0.81%) GitLab
7 2 (0.54%) JConsole
7 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.54%) VisualVM
8 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 129 (34.96%) Finance
2 87 (23.58%) Social Skills
3 63 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.65%) Electronics
5 41 (11.11%) Front Office
6 39 (10.57%) Marketing
7 34 (9.21%) Retail
8 31 (8.40%) Manufacturing
9 24 (6.50%) Games
10 23 (6.23%) Banking
11 21 (5.69%) Law
12 17 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (2.98%) Financial Institution
15 10 (2.71%) Automotive
15 10 (2.71%) Legal
15 10 (2.71%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.90%) Telecoms
17 6 (1.63%) Aeronautics
17 6 (1.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 73 (19.78%) Senior
2 66 (17.89%) Software Engineer
3 62 (16.80%) Developer
4 41 (11.11%) Lead
5 29 (7.86%) Quantitative Developer
6 26 (7.05%) Senior Developer
7 25 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 25 (6.78%) Programmer
7 25 (6.78%) Trainee
7 25 (6.78%) Trainee Programmer
8 24 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 23 (6.23%) C++ Software Engineer
9 23 (6.23%) Principal Engineer
10 22 (5.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 21 (5.69%) Python Developer
12 20 (5.42%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (5.15%) C++ Developer
13 19 (5.15%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 18 (4.88%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 18 (4.88%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 34 (9.21%) scikit-learn
3 33 (8.94%) Pandas
4 32 (8.67%) NumPy
5 28 (7.59%) Matplotlib
6 27 (7.32%) Streamlit
7 26 (7.05%) Hugging Face
8 25 (6.78%) TensorFlow
9 23 (6.23%) Django
9 23 (6.23%) FIX Protocol
10 19 (5.15%) PyTorch
11 14 (3.79%) .NET
11 14 (3.79%) Kafka
12 12 (3.25%) pytest
13 11 (2.98%) Middleware
14 10 (2.71%) HTML
15 9 (2.44%) FHIR
16 8 (2.17%) CSS
16 8 (2.17%) FastAPI
16 8 (2.17%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.26%) Data Structures
2 44 (11.92%) Equities
3 40 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (7.05%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.23%) Hedge funds
6 21 (5.69%) Cloud Native
6 21 (5.69%) Derivative
7 19 (5.15%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.79%) Robotics
9 13 (3.52%) Fixed Income
10 12 (3.25%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.98%) Life Science
11 11 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.98%) Social Media
12 10 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.71%) Embedded Systems
12 10 (2.71%) FPGA
13 9 (2.44%) Omics
13 9 (2.44%) PCIe
14 8 (2.17%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.92%) Linux
2 4 (1.08%) Android
2 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.08%) Unix
3 3 (0.81%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (39.84%) AI
2 131 (35.50%) Machine Learning
3 124 (33.60%) Computer Science
4 123 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 104 (28.18%) Analytics
6 77 (20.87%) Data Science
7 69 (18.70%) Mathematics
8 64 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (15.99%) OOP
10 57 (15.45%) Agile
11 56 (15.18%) OO
12 55 (14.91%) Visualisation
13 54 (14.63%) Low Latency
14 49 (13.28%) Workflow
15 44 (11.92%) Decision-Making
16 43 (11.65%) LLM
17 42 (11.38%) DevOps
18 41 (11.11%) SDLC
18 41 (11.11%) Statistics
19 40 (10.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 220 (59.62%) Python
2 103 (27.91%) C++
3 53 (14.36%) SQL
4 45 (12.20%) C
5 42 (11.38%) Java
6 34 (9.21%) C#
7 17 (4.61%) R
8 14 (3.79%) JavaScript
8 14 (3.79%) MATLAB
9 10 (2.71%) Rust
10 8 (2.17%) Assembly Language
11 7 (1.90%) Go
12 6 (1.63%) Scala
13 5 (1.36%) Bash
14 4 (1.08%) Fortran
14 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.81%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.81%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.81%) Swift
15 3 (0.81%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 143 (38.75%) Degree
2 67 (18.16%) Master's Degree
2 67 (18.16%) PhD
3 35 (9.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (7.32%) Security Cleared
6 25 (6.78%) AWS Certification
6 25 (6.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 23 (6.23%) SC Cleared
8 8 (2.17%) CISM
8 8 (2.17%) CISSP
9 7 (1.90%) CISA
9 7 (1.90%) CRISC
10 6 (1.63%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.36%) MBA
12 4 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.08%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.27%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 12 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.25%) QA
4 9 (2.44%) CDISC
4 9 (2.44%) GxP
4 9 (2.44%) HL7
5 7 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.54%) EMIR
7 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.27%) GDPR
8 1 (0.27%) GMP
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 15 (4.07%) Docker
1 15 (4.07%) Firmware
2 5 (1.36%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (3.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.08%) Terraform
3 3 (0.81%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.54%) logstash
4 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (11.11%) Google
2 33 (8.94%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.61%) IBM
4 11 (2.98%) Databricks
5 9 (2.44%) Altera
6 8 (2.17%) Screaming Frog
7 7 (1.90%) YouTube
8 6 (1.63%) Oracle
9 5 (1.36%) Adobe
9 5 (1.36%) Ahrefs
9 5 (1.36%) BT
9 5 (1.36%) Xilinx
10 3 (0.81%) Facebook
10 3 (0.81%) Instagram
10 3 (0.81%) TikTok
11 2 (0.54%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.54%) SAP
12 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 1 (0.27%) Charles River