Algorithms Jobs 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 26 131
Rank change year-on-year -62 +105 +18
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 92 710 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.82% 10.83% 2.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.84% 24.72% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 35 19
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £84,250 £75,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,000 £89,852
UK median annual salary £70,600 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -10.71% -5.40%

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 849 2,872 1,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.06% 43.83% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 380 846 735
10th Percentile £32,000 £28,750 £33,730
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,409 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +6.36% -14.10% +2.45%

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

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

Salary trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 July 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 4 July 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 -6 79 £90,000 +38.46% 89
Edinburgh +2 11 £57,500 -14.81% 59
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 (9.78%) Apache
1 9 (9.78%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.70%) Camunda
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (4.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) AWS
2 11 (11.96%) Amazon S3
3 7 (7.61%) npm
3 7 (7.61%) Yarn
4 6 (6.52%) GCP
5 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.43%) Azure
5 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (5.43%) Serverless
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.26%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.17%) AWS IoT
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.09%) Datadog
9 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.17%) Ethernet
1 2 (2.17%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (2.17%) Modbus
1 2 (2.17%) MQTT
2 1 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.65%) NoSQL
2 13 (14.13%) MongoDB
3 12 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (10.87%) Relational Database
5 9 (9.78%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (8.70%) RDBMS
7 7 (7.61%) Big Data
8 5 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.43%) Apache Hudi
8 5 (5.43%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (5.43%) Parquet
9 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (4.35%) KDB
9 4 (4.35%) Kdb+
10 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.17%) DB2
11 2 (2.17%) MySQL
12 1 (1.09%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 16 (17.39%) JUnit
2 8 (8.70%) webpack
3 7 (7.61%) Cypress.io
3 7 (7.61%) Vite
4 5 (5.43%) Git
5 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.09%) Ant
6 1 (1.09%) GitLab
6 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.09%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.09%) JIRA
6 1 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Protractor
6 1 (1.09%) Selenium
6 1 (1.09%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (86.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 79 (85.87%) Finance
3 74 (80.43%) Law
4 42 (45.65%) Banking
5 31 (33.70%) Marketing
6 14 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (13.04%) Social Skills
8 7 (7.61%) Legal
9 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.17%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.17%) Electronics
10 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.17%) Tech for Good
10 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.09%) Games
11 1 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (83.70%) Software Engineer
2 38 (41.30%) Java Engineer
2 38 (41.30%) Java Software Engineer
3 25 (27.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 24 (26.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (14.13%) AWS Software Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Lead
7 9 (9.78%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Python Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior
10 5 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Implementation Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Software Integration Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (48.91%) Spring
2 35 (38.04%) React
3 29 (31.52%) Spring Boot
4 20 (21.74%) Kafka
5 13 (14.13%) AngularJS
5 13 (14.13%) REST
6 11 (11.96%) CSS
7 9 (9.78%) RESTful
7 9 (9.78%) Web Services
8 8 (8.70%) HTML
8 8 (8.70%) JDBC
8 8 (8.70%) OpenAPI
8 8 (8.70%) Swagger
8 8 (8.70%) WSDL
9 7 (7.61%) Hibernate
9 7 (7.61%) Jest
10 6 (6.52%) Pandas
10 6 (6.52%) scikit-learn
11 5 (5.43%) NumPy
11 5 (5.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.17%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.17%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (90.22%) Software Engineering
2 81 (88.04%) Agile
3 77 (83.70%) SDLC
4 76 (82.61%) Visualisation
5 75 (81.52%) Community of Practice
6 70 (76.09%) Operational Stability
7 69 (75.00%) CI/CD
8 68 (73.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (47.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 42 (45.65%) Machine Learning
11 32 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (13.04%) Data Science
13 12 (13.04%) TDD
14 10 (10.87%) Code Quality
14 10 (10.87%) Risk Management
15 9 (9.78%) ETL
15 9 (9.78%) Mentoring
15 9 (9.78%) Microservices
16 8 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 68 (73.91%) Java
2 33 (35.87%) Python
3 25 (27.17%) JavaScript
3 25 (27.17%) SQL
4 19 (20.65%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.61%) C
5 7 (7.61%) C++
6 5 (5.43%) C#
7 4 (4.35%) Scala
8 2 (2.17%) Bash
8 2 (2.17%) R
8 2 (2.17%) Swift
9 1 (1.09%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (5.43%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) JTAG
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.22%) Terraform
3 5 (5.43%) Ansible
4 4 (4.35%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Oracle
2 12 (13.04%) Splunk
3 11 (11.96%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.43%) Databricks
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.26%) Sybase
7 2 (2.17%) Google
7 2 (2.17%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.17%) SAP
8 1 (1.09%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.09%) Ping Identity