Algorithms Job Trends in the North of England

Algorithms
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 266 214
Rank change year-on-year -28 -52 +43
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 61 35 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.27% 0.36% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 0.90% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 42 24 47
10th Percentile £31,250 - £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,982 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% -2.91% -17.93%
75th Percentile £64,844 £98,474 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £115,292 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -16.67%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,755 3,889 4,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.30% 40.23% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,364 1,588 2,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the North of England

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the North of England

Algorithms
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Yorkshire -11 26 £37,500 +7.14% 17
North West -22 20 £60,000 +20.00% 16
North East -50 15 £52,000 -54.78% 12
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (19.67%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) AWS
2 14 (22.95%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.20%) Azure
4 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) GCP
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub
6 2 (3.28%) Google Sheets
6 2 (3.28%) Serverless
7 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.64%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Internet
2 3 (4.92%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.20%) GIS
3 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.28%) MySQL
3 2 (3.28%) Redis
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (6.56%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
General
1 25 (40.98%) Finance
2 15 (24.59%) Manufacturing
3 14 (22.95%) Retail
3 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.48%) Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Games
7 5 (8.20%) Marketing
8 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
8 3 (4.92%) Electronics
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.28%) Advertising
9 2 (3.28%) Automotive
9 2 (3.28%) French Language
9 2 (3.28%) German Language
9 2 (3.28%) Italian Language
9 2 (3.28%) Legal
9 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.67%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 12 (19.67%) Programmer
1 12 (19.67%) Trainee
1 12 (19.67%) Trainee Programmer
2 9 (14.75%) Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Data Scientist
4 5 (8.20%) Python Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Graduate
5 4 (6.56%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) SEO Specialist
6 3 (4.92%) Computer Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Graduate
6 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Research Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) NumPy
1 14 (22.95%) Pandas
2 13 (21.31%) .NET
3 12 (19.67%) Hugging Face
3 12 (19.67%) Matplotlib
3 12 (19.67%) scikit-learn
3 12 (19.67%) Streamlit
4 6 (9.84%) .NET Core
5 5 (8.20%) Ajax
5 5 (8.20%) boto
5 5 (8.20%) CSS
5 5 (8.20%) Flask
5 5 (8.20%) HTML
5 5 (8.20%) Jinja
5 5 (8.20%) jQuery
5 5 (8.20%) OpenLayers
5 5 (8.20%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (6.56%) Node.js
7 3 (4.92%) CSS3
7 3 (4.92%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Data Structures
2 6 (9.84%) Hedge funds
3 5 (8.20%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (6.56%) Client/Server
4 4 (6.56%) Cybercrime
4 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 3 (4.92%) Operational Technology
5 3 (4.92%) SCADA
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.28%) IoT
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Unix
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.07%) Machine Learning
2 19 (31.15%) OOP
3 18 (29.51%) Computer Science
4 16 (26.23%) AI
5 15 (24.59%) Data Science
5 15 (24.59%) Visualisation
6 13 (21.31%) OO
7 12 (19.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 12 (19.67%) Conversational UI
7 12 (19.67%) Customer Service
7 12 (19.67%) Data Privacy
7 12 (19.67%) LLM
7 12 (19.67%) Neural Network
7 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (19.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 12 (19.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 12 (19.67%) Sentiment Analysis
7 12 (19.67%) Workflow
8 9 (14.75%) Analytics
8 9 (14.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (60.66%) Python
2 8 (13.11%) C#
2 8 (13.11%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) C++
5 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (22.95%) AWS Certification
1 14 (22.95%) Degree
2 12 (19.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.92%) PhD
4 2 (3.28%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.92%) Rockwell
3 2 (3.28%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) Thales