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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 179 197
Rank change year-on-year +39 +18 -62
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 998 1,386 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.15% 1.62% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.10% 4.66% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 605 683 804
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,000 £40,371
25th Percentile £62,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £76,000 £85,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £111,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -13.33% +7.14%

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 16,352 29,764 40,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.15% 34.89% 43.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,888 20,874 21,629
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
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 £112,500 £98,750 £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 4 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 4 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 +48 438 £68,000 +17.24% 266
London +45 257 £102,500 +20.59% 744
East of England +36 121 £65,000 - 130
South West +55 73 £70,000 +16.67% 88
North of England -15 62 £73,246 +33.17% 98
Midlands -43 42 £60,000 -4.00% 60
North West -59 40 £88,662 +47.77% 47
West Midlands -5 21 £60,000 -4.00% 46
East Midlands -13 21 £60,000 +6.68% 12
Yorkshire +73 16 £45,000 -10.00% 23
North East +52 6 £103,750 +13.76% 28
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 26 (2.61%) Jupyter
2 12 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.20%) Kinematics
3 8 (0.80%) Apache
4 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.50%) Ethereum
5 4 (0.40%) CMS
5 4 (0.40%) GemFire
6 3 (0.30%) Confluence
7 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.20%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 18 (1.80%) Simulink
2 12 (1.20%) Mathcad
2 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.90%) Final Cut Pro
4 5 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.30%) InDesign
6 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.10%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.10%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (2.40%) Ripple
1 24 (2.40%) Ripple XRP
2 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (12.02%) Power Platform
2 111 (11.12%) Azure
3 108 (10.82%) AWS
4 59 (5.91%) GCP
5 40 (4.01%) SaaS
6 15 (1.50%) Vertex AI
7 14 (1.40%) Amazon S3
7 14 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
8 12 (1.20%) Azure AI
8 12 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
9 11 (1.10%) Canva
9 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (0.90%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.90%) Serverless
12 8 (0.80%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.10%) Multicast
2 6 (0.60%) Bluetooth
3 5 (0.50%) RS-485
4 2 (0.20%) MQTT
4 2 (0.20%) RTP
4 2 (0.20%) WAN
5 1 (0.10%) DVB
5 1 (0.10%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.10%) HTTP
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.10%) SSL
5 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.10%) Wireless
5 1 (0.10%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (11.92%) Power BI
2 96 (9.62%) GIS
3 94 (9.42%) Geospatial Data
3 94 (9.42%) Power Query
4 57 (5.71%) Big Data
5 54 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 32 (3.21%) Data Mining
7 24 (2.40%) Tableau
8 12 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.20%) Redis
9 11 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.00%) SQL Server
11 9 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 8 (0.80%) Cloud Spanner
12 8 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.70%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.60%) KDB
14 6 (0.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 249 (24.95%) Rational DOORS
2 61 (6.11%) Git
3 23 (2.30%) JIRA
4 22 (2.20%) Eclipse
4 22 (2.20%) IntelliJ
4 22 (2.20%) Jasmine
4 22 (2.20%) JUnit
4 22 (2.20%) Karma Test Runner
4 22 (2.20%) Mockito
4 22 (2.20%) Protractor
5 13 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.70%) Gradle
6 7 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.60%) Vite
7 6 (0.60%) webpack
8 5 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.40%) Bazaar
10 2 (0.20%) Babel
10 2 (0.20%) Maven
General
1 296 (29.66%) Electronics
2 220 (22.04%) Finance
3 192 (19.24%) Social Skills
4 122 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (9.92%) Law
6 63 (6.31%) Banking
7 62 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (4.11%) Games
9 39 (3.91%) Retail
10 35 (3.51%) Marketing
11 34 (3.41%) Legal
12 32 (3.21%) Manufacturing
13 30 (3.01%) Front Office
14 25 (2.51%) Financial Institution
14 25 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (2.40%) Digital Economy
16 13 (1.30%) Automotive
16 13 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 300 (30.06%) Senior
2 249 (24.95%) Systems Engineer
3 165 (16.53%) Principal Engineer
4 135 (13.53%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 117 (11.72%) Developer
6 114 (11.42%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 108 (10.82%) Software Engineer
8 105 (10.52%) Data Scientist
9 78 (7.82%) Lead
10 61 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (4.41%) Senior Data Scientist
12 37 (3.71%) Java Developer
13 31 (3.11%) Senior Developer
14 30 (3.01%) C++ Developer
14 30 (3.01%) Quantitative Developer
15 27 (2.71%) Analyst
16 26 (2.61%) C++ Software Engineer
17 22 (2.20%) Software Developer
18 21 (2.10%) Python Developer
19 20 (2.00%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.81%) PyTorch
2 54 (5.41%) React
3 48 (4.81%) scikit-learn
4 46 (4.61%) TensorFlow
5 40 (4.01%) Pandas
6 37 (3.71%) NumPy
7 35 (3.51%) AngularJS
8 28 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (2.40%) .NET
9 24 (2.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 23 (2.30%) Node.js
11 22 (2.20%) Hibernate
11 22 (2.20%) JPA
12 21 (2.10%) OpenCV
12 21 (2.10%) SciPy
13 19 (1.90%) Kafka
14 15 (1.50%) Keras
14 15 (1.50%) PySpark
15 14 (1.40%) Middleware
16 13 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 52 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.61%) Cyberattack
4 37 (3.71%) Robotics
5 35 (3.51%) Equities
6 31 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 29 (2.91%) Blockchain
8 28 (2.81%) Virtual Team
9 26 (2.61%) Hedge funds
10 22 (2.20%) Credit Risk
10 22 (2.20%) Life Science
11 20 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.00%) Management Information System
11 20 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.80%) Social Media
13 17 (1.70%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.70%) Derivative
14 16 (1.60%) FPGA
14 16 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.40%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.72%) Linux
2 20 (2.00%) Windows
3 15 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.50%) Unix
4 9 (0.90%) Android
5 6 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
5 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.50%) Debian
7 3 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
2 287 (28.76%) Signal Processing
3 283 (28.36%) Technical Leadership
4 278 (27.86%) Systems Engineering
5 255 (25.55%) Machine Learning
6 238 (23.85%) Software Engineering
7 233 (23.35%) Data Science
8 231 (23.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 219 (21.94%) Analytics
10 208 (20.84%) Mentoring
11 203 (20.34%) Computer Science
12 162 (16.23%) Agile
12 162 (16.23%) Mathematics
13 153 (15.33%) Visualisation
14 135 (13.53%) Test Planning
15 122 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
16 121 (12.12%) Actionable Insight
17 118 (11.82%) Statistics
18 106 (10.62%) MLOps
19 105 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 310 (31.06%) Python
2 226 (22.65%) SQL
3 158 (15.83%) C++
4 138 (13.83%) Java
5 119 (11.92%) R
6 65 (6.51%) C
7 62 (6.21%) JavaScript
8 50 (5.01%) C#
9 42 (4.21%) TypeScript
10 23 (2.30%) Go
10 23 (2.30%) MATLAB
11 13 (1.30%) Embedded C
12 9 (0.90%) Bash
12 9 (0.90%) Fortran
13 6 (0.60%) Ladder Logic
13 6 (0.60%) Scala
14 5 (0.50%) Rust
15 4 (0.40%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.30%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 283 (28.36%) Degree
2 273 (27.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 122 (12.22%) Master's Degree
4 105 (10.52%) PhD
5 75 (7.52%) Security Cleared
6 65 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (6.51%) DV Cleared
7 45 (4.51%) Numerate Degree
8 23 (2.30%) SC Cleared
9 11 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.90%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.50%) CISSP
12 2 (0.20%) CSSLP
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.20%) PMP
13 1 (0.10%) CISM
13 1 (0.10%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.10%) MBA
13 1 (0.10%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (27.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 31 (3.11%) QA
3 22 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.80%) GDPR
5 12 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.50%) NIST
7 4 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.10%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 83 (8.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.50%) Apache Flume
3 4 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.70%) Terraform
3 5 (0.50%) Oozie
4 3 (0.30%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.10%) Ansible
5 1 (0.10%) Argo
5 1 (0.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.10%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.10%) Grafana
5 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 271 (27.15%) IBM
2 56 (5.61%) Google
3 54 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 34 (3.41%) Databricks
5 30 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 24 (2.40%) SAP
7 15 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.40%) Adobe
9 13 (1.30%) MathWorks
10 11 (1.10%) Workday
11 7 (0.70%) Oracle
12 6 (0.60%) Siemens
13 5 (0.50%) Ahrefs
13 5 (0.50%) ANSYS
13 5 (0.50%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.50%) EMC
13 5 (0.50%) Facebook
14 4 (0.40%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.40%) Solace
14 4 (0.40%) TIBCO