Algorithms Job Trends in Scotland

Algorithms
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 40 133
Rank change year-on-year -33 +93 0
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 86 266 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.38% 6.23% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.47% 16.89% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 23
10th Percentile - £55,098 £42,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,163 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £75,900 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,240 £77,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% -3.33%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 750 1,575 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.49% 36.90% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 275 518 721
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £32,893
25th Percentile £31,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,137 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £85,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Glasgow -4 75 £74,500 +14.62% 10
Edinburgh +7 7 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East Ayrshire - 1 £75,900 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £75,900 -
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (10.47%) Apache
1 9 (10.47%) Apache Spark
2 8 (9.30%) Camunda
2 8 (9.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (4.65%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.02%) AWS
2 11 (12.79%) Amazon S3
3 7 (8.14%) npm
3 7 (8.14%) Yarn
4 5 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.81%) Azure
4 5 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (5.81%) Serverless
5 4 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (4.65%) GCP
5 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.33%) AWS IoT
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.16%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.16%) Datadog
7 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.33%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.33%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (2.33%) Modbus
1 2 (2.33%) MQTT
2 1 (1.16%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.44%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (9.30%) RDBMS
4 8 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.14%) Big Data
5 7 (8.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.81%) Apache Hudi
6 5 (5.81%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (5.81%) Parquet
7 4 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (4.65%) KDB
7 4 (4.65%) Kdb+
8 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.33%) MySQL
10 1 (1.16%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (16.28%) JUnit
2 8 (9.30%) webpack
3 7 (8.14%) Cypress.io
3 7 (8.14%) Vite
4 3 (3.49%) Git
4 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.16%) Ant
6 1 (1.16%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.16%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.16%) JIRA
6 1 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.16%) Maven
6 1 (1.16%) Protractor
6 1 (1.16%) Selenium
6 1 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (90.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 77 (89.53%) Finance
3 74 (86.05%) Law
4 40 (46.51%) Banking
5 31 (36.05%) Marketing
6 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
8 5 (5.81%) Legal
9 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.49%) Electronics
11 2 (2.33%) Agriculture
11 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.33%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.16%) Games
12 1 (1.16%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (88.37%) Software Engineer
2 38 (44.19%) Java Engineer
2 38 (44.19%) Java Software Engineer
3 25 (29.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 24 (27.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 13 (15.12%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (15.12%) AWS Software Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Lead
6 9 (10.47%) Lead Software Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Python Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Implementation Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Software Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.33%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (47.67%) Spring
2 31 (36.05%) React
3 27 (31.40%) Spring Boot
4 20 (23.26%) Kafka
5 13 (15.12%) REST
6 12 (13.95%) AngularJS
7 9 (10.47%) CSS
7 9 (10.47%) RESTful
7 9 (10.47%) Web Services
8 8 (9.30%) HTML
8 8 (9.30%) JDBC
8 8 (9.30%) OpenAPI
8 8 (9.30%) Swagger
8 8 (9.30%) WSDL
9 7 (8.14%) Jest
10 6 (6.98%) Pandas
10 6 (6.98%) scikit-learn
11 5 (5.81%) Hibernate
11 5 (5.81%) NumPy
11 5 (5.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.49%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.33%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (90.70%) Software Engineering
2 77 (89.53%) Agile
3 75 (87.21%) SDLC
4 74 (86.05%) Visualisation
5 73 (84.88%) Community of Practice
6 68 (79.07%) Operational Stability
7 66 (76.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (75.58%) CI/CD
9 38 (44.19%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (44.19%) Machine Learning
10 31 (36.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (13.95%) TDD
13 10 (11.63%) Code Quality
13 10 (11.63%) Risk Management
14 9 (10.47%) Data Science
14 9 (10.47%) ETL
14 9 (10.47%) Mentoring
15 8 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
15 8 (9.30%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 64 (74.42%) Java
2 29 (33.72%) Python
3 21 (24.42%) JavaScript
3 21 (24.42%) SQL
4 17 (19.77%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.14%) C
5 7 (8.14%) C++
6 5 (5.81%) C#
7 4 (4.65%) Scala
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) Swift
9 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.16%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (3.49%) Degree
2 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 2 (2.33%) JTAG
2 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.16%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (11.63%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (31.40%) Kubernetes
2 14 (16.28%) Terraform
3 5 (5.81%) Ansible
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Oracle
2 10 (11.63%) Splunk
3 9 (10.47%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.81%) Databricks
5 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.33%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) IBM
6 2 (2.33%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.16%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.16%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.16%) Sybase