Algorithms Jobs in London

Algorithms
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 218 180
Rank change year-on-year +42 -38 -81
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 252 336 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.96% 1.42% 2.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.44% 3.50% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 89 176 404
10th Percentile £55,250 £51,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £85,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% - +6.25%
75th Percentile £130,000 £111,563 £115,000
90th Percentile £162,000 £145,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -13.33% +1.35%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,676 9,587 15,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.03% 40.57% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,166 6,777 10,558
10th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £44,192
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,532 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in London

Algorithms
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +4 60 £130,000 +40.54% 27
East London -10 6 - - 3
South London +3 4 - - 3
West London +35 1 - - 16
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.98%) Ethereum
4 4 (1.59%) CMS
4 4 (1.59%) Kinematics
5 3 (1.19%) Apache
5 3 (1.19%) Confluence
6 2 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 9 (3.57%) Final Cut Pro
2 4 (1.59%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Ripple
1 7 (2.78%) Ripple XRP
2 4 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (18.25%) Azure
2 38 (15.08%) AWS
3 22 (8.73%) GCP
4 16 (6.35%) SaaS
5 11 (4.37%) Amazon S3
5 11 (4.37%) Azure AI
5 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (3.57%) Canva
7 6 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.38%) Serverless
7 6 (2.38%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (1.98%) GitHub
8 5 (1.98%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (1.59%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.37%) Multicast
2 5 (1.98%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.40%) HTTP
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.73%) NoSQL
2 19 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.35%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.95%) Tableau
5 12 (4.76%) DB2
6 10 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.38%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.38%) KDB
9 5 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.98%) Apache Hive
9 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.98%) Power BI
9 5 (1.98%) Redis
9 5 (1.98%) Sqoop
10 4 (1.59%) Big Data
11 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.19%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (12.30%) Git
2 12 (4.76%) JIRA
3 7 (2.78%) Gradle
4 5 (1.98%) CircleCI
4 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.59%) Bazaar
6 1 (0.40%) Babel
6 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.40%) JUnit
6 1 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.40%) Mockito
6 1 (0.40%) Protractor
6 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 93 (36.90%) Finance
2 77 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.06%) Law
4 38 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (12.70%) Games
6 31 (12.30%) Banking
7 26 (10.32%) Front Office
8 20 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (6.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 15 (5.95%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.97%) Legal
12 8 (3.17%) Financial Institution
12 8 (3.17%) Marketing
13 7 (2.78%) Digital Economy
14 6 (2.38%) Advertising
15 3 (1.19%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
17 1 (0.40%) Czech Language
17 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (30.16%) Senior
2 61 (24.21%) Developer
3 36 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 34 (13.49%) Data Scientist
5 27 (10.71%) Quantitative Developer
6 24 (9.52%) C++ Developer
6 24 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (7.54%) Senior C++ Developer
8 18 (7.14%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 18 (7.14%) Python Developer
8 18 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
9 16 (6.35%) Lead
10 15 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (5.95%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.95%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
10 15 (5.95%) Senior Python Developer
10 15 (5.95%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 14 (5.56%) Linux Developer
11 14 (5.56%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.49%) Pandas
2 32 (12.70%) PyTorch
3 24 (9.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 23 (9.13%) NumPy
4 23 (9.13%) scikit-learn
5 19 (7.54%) SciPy
5 19 (7.54%) TensorFlow
6 18 (7.14%) OpenCV
7 14 (5.56%) PySpark
7 14 (5.56%) React
8 13 (5.16%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.76%) Backbone.js
9 12 (4.76%) Bootstrap
9 12 (4.76%) Ember.js
9 12 (4.76%) jQuery
9 12 (4.76%) Kafka
10 11 (4.37%) WebSockets
11 10 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (3.57%) pytest
13 8 (3.17%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.62%) Data Structures
2 31 (12.30%) Equities
3 30 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 22 (8.73%) Robotics
6 19 (7.54%) Hedge funds
7 18 (7.14%) Fixed Income
7 18 (7.14%) Management Information System
7 18 (7.14%) Virtual Team
8 17 (6.75%) Life Science
9 15 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (5.16%) Derivative
11 12 (4.76%) Blockchain
11 12 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (4.37%) e-Learning
12 11 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (3.97%) Social Media
14 9 (3.57%) Credit Risk
15 8 (3.17%) Cloud Native
16 7 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 53 (21.03%) Linux
2 13 (5.16%) Apple iOS
3 12 (4.76%) Android
3 12 (4.76%) Windows
4 5 (1.98%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.59%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (40.08%) Artificial Intelligence
2 100 (39.68%) Analytics
3 93 (36.90%) Data Science
4 86 (34.13%) Software Engineering
5 84 (33.33%) Machine Learning
6 67 (26.59%) Computer Science
7 64 (25.40%) Agile
8 52 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (18.25%) Statistics
10 45 (17.86%) Low Latency
10 45 (17.86%) MLOps
11 44 (17.46%) Mathematics
12 39 (15.48%) Mentoring
12 39 (15.48%) Visualisation
13 33 (13.10%) SDLC
14 31 (12.30%) Decision-Making
14 31 (12.30%) Test Automation
15 30 (11.90%) Generative AI
16 29 (11.51%) Natural Language Processing
17 27 (10.71%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 143 (56.75%) Python
2 70 (27.78%) SQL
3 62 (24.60%) C++
4 41 (16.27%) Java
5 13 (5.16%) C
6 11 (4.37%) C#
7 10 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 10 (3.97%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.98%) Ladder Logic
8 5 (1.98%) Scala
9 4 (1.59%) R
10 3 (1.19%) Rust
10 3 (1.19%) Solidity
11 2 (0.79%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Ada
12 1 (0.40%) Bash
12 1 (0.40%) Haskell
12 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.40%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 106 (42.06%) Degree
2 73 (28.97%) Master's Degree
3 61 (24.21%) PhD
4 25 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.37%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.79%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.14%) QA
2 11 (4.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (4.37%) GDPR
3 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (3.57%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 9 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.98%) Oozie
2 5 (1.98%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 19 (7.54%) Google
2 16 (6.35%) Databricks
3 15 (5.95%) OpenAI
3 15 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 13 (5.16%) IBM
4 13 (5.16%) SAP
5 12 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.37%) Workday
7 9 (3.57%) Adobe
8 5 (1.98%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.98%) Siemens
9 4 (1.59%) Remedy
10 1 (0.40%) Apple
10 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.40%) DevExpress
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle
10 1 (0.40%) Reuters
10 1 (0.40%) Sun
10 1 (0.40%) YouTube