SIMD Job Trends in England

Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term SIMD in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited SIMD over the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 654 609 790
Rank change year-on-year -45 +181 +172
Permanent jobs citing SIMD 2 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.003% 0.005% 0.009%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.010% 0.014% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £137,250 - £76,000
25th Percentile £140,625 - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £152,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £165,625 - £85,000
90th Percentile £169,750 - £87,500
UK median annual salary £152,500 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Generic Skills
England

SIMD 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 21,049 14,277 27,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.71% 38.98% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,850 8,079 19,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,145
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

SIMD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SIMD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

SIMD job vacancy trend in England

SIMD
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SIMD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SIMD

SIMD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SIMD within the England region over the 6 months to 26 March 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 - 2 £152,500 - 2
SIMD
UK

SIMD
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Rust Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) DPDK
1 2 (100.00%) eBPF
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus