Algorithms Job Trends 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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 160 222
Rank change year-on-year -52 +62 -34
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 211 273 345
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.99% 2.23% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.94% 4.93% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 137 69 166
10th Percentile £45,000 £69,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £90,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £150,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £172,500 £145,000
England median annual salary £67,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.46% +4.00% -16.67%

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 7,177 5,543 9,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.65% 45.33% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,453 3,055 6,892
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,725 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -1.96%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,450 £136,250 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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
Central London -8 54 £96,250 -35.83% 21
West London - 6 - - 7
East London - 1 - - 4
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (2.37%) SAS
2 4 (1.90%) CMS
2 4 (1.90%) Jupyter
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (2.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.42%) Blender
2 3 (1.42%) Maya
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.91%) AWS
2 34 (16.11%) Azure
3 24 (11.37%) GCP
4 14 (6.64%) GitHub
5 8 (3.79%) SaaS
6 7 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (3.32%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.90%) Slack
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.95%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.95%) Serverless
9 2 (0.95%) Vertex AI
10 1 (0.47%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.47%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.47%) Google Gemini
10 1 (0.47%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.53%) Multicast
2 13 (6.16%) Broadband
3 5 (2.37%) 5G
4 2 (0.95%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.47%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.43%) BigQuery
2 21 (9.95%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.84%) Power BI
4 5 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (2.37%) Big Data
4 5 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.47%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) Parquet
6 1 (0.47%) Presto
6 1 (0.47%) Tableau
6 1 (0.47%) Trino
Development Applications
1 26 (12.32%) Git
2 18 (8.53%) JIRA
3 4 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.47%) CMake
4 1 (0.47%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) Valgrind
General
1 76 (36.02%) Finance
2 41 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (12.32%) Social Skills
4 23 (10.90%) Front Office
5 18 (8.53%) Banking
5 18 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.21%) Retail
7 6 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.37%) Games
9 4 (1.90%) Marketing
10 3 (1.42%) Humanities
10 3 (1.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Social Science
10 3 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.95%) Advertising
11 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.47%) Automotive
12 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (38.86%) Senior
2 65 (30.81%) Software Engineer
3 51 (24.17%) Developer
4 36 (17.06%) Senior Developer
5 35 (16.59%) C++ Software Engineer
6 28 (13.27%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (11.85%) Python Developer
8 23 (10.90%) Python Engineer
8 23 (10.90%) Python Software Engineer
9 21 (9.95%) Quantitative Developer
9 21 (9.95%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 20 (9.48%) C++ Developer
10 20 (9.48%) Senior C++ Developer
11 19 (9.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 19 (9.00%) Linux Developer
11 19 (9.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 19 (9.00%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 19 (9.00%) Senior Python Developer
12 17 (8.06%) Data Scientist
12 17 (8.06%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 25 (11.85%) Django
3 21 (9.95%) FIX Protocol
4 18 (8.53%) pytest
5 10 (4.74%) PyTorch
5 10 (4.74%) RESTful
6 9 (4.27%) Streamlit
7 8 (3.79%) React
7 8 (3.79%) TensorFlow
8 7 (3.32%) NumPy
8 7 (3.32%) Pandas
9 5 (2.37%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.37%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.90%) Matplotlib
10 4 (1.90%) REST
10 4 (1.90%) TFX
11 3 (1.42%) Express.js
11 3 (1.42%) Kafka
11 3 (1.42%) Unity (Game Engine)
11 3 (1.42%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 72 (34.12%) Data Structures
2 42 (19.91%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (19.43%) Equities
4 21 (9.95%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (9.48%) Hedge funds
5 20 (9.48%) Management Information System
6 19 (9.00%) Derivative
6 19 (9.00%) Fixed Income
7 8 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.32%) Video\Live Streaming
9 5 (2.37%) Clustering
9 5 (2.37%) Over-the-Top Content
9 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.42%) Blog
10 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.95%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 40 (18.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (56.40%) Software Engineering
2 86 (40.76%) Computer Science
3 66 (31.28%) Machine Learning
4 59 (27.96%) Data Science
5 57 (27.01%) Agile
6 47 (22.27%) Low Latency
7 45 (21.33%) AI
8 41 (19.43%) OOP
9 40 (18.96%) Mathematics
10 38 (18.01%) Analytics
11 37 (17.54%) OO
12 36 (17.06%) SDLC
13 35 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (14.22%) Microservices
15 28 (13.27%) Visualisation
16 27 (12.80%) Decision-Making
16 27 (12.80%) Test Automation
17 26 (12.32%) CI/CD
17 26 (12.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 158 (74.88%) Python
2 72 (34.12%) C++
3 26 (12.32%) SQL
4 15 (7.11%) Rust
5 11 (5.21%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.27%) C
7 5 (2.37%) C#
7 5 (2.37%) Go
7 5 (2.37%) Java
8 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.90%) R
9 2 (0.95%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.95%) Julia
9 2 (0.95%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.47%) Bash
10 1 (0.47%) VBA
10 1 (0.47%) VC++
Qualifications
1 52 (24.64%) Degree
2 27 (12.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.69%) Master's Degree
4 11 (5.21%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.21%) PhD
5 9 (4.27%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.90%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.95%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.95%) QA
2 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.47%) EMIR
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.47%) Firmware
2 1 (0.47%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (3.79%) Terraform
2 4 (1.90%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (12.32%) Google
2 6 (2.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.42%) Botify
4 2 (0.95%) Ahrefs
4 2 (0.95%) Foundry
4 2 (0.95%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe
5 1 (0.47%) Databricks
5 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle
5 1 (0.47%) YouTube