Algorithms Job Trends in the South East

Algorithms
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 146 89
Rank change year-on-year -44 -57 +72
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 113 155 520
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.77% 1.98% 2.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 4.65% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 76 81 225
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.87% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,600 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £84,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -16.67%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,494 3,330 6,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.68% 42.61% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,406 1,537 3,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,475
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
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 the South East

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

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the South East

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the South East over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the South East

Algorithms
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hampshire +10 66 £72,500 +38.10% 23
Thames Valley -36 23 £60,000 +15.38% 16
Surrey -14 19 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Oxfordshire +1 11 £60,000 +17.07% 8
Berkshire -27 10 £60,000 +15.38% 7
Isle of Wight -17 3 £50,000 -29.18%
Buckinghamshire -11 2 £67,000 +34.00% 1
West Sussex -31 1 - - 3
Sussex - 1 - -
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.88%) CMS
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Simulink
2 2 (1.77%) CATIA
3 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.62%) AWS
2 7 (6.19%) Azure
2 7 (6.19%) Google Analytics
3 2 (1.77%) GCP
3 2 (1.77%) GitHub
3 2 (1.77%) Prefect
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.88%) PaaS
4 1 (0.88%) SaaS
4 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.31%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (2.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) Metadata
2 6 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.77%) MySQL
5 2 (1.77%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.77%) Redis
6 1 (0.88%) Big Data
6 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.88%) Tableau
6 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 29 (25.66%) Git
2 21 (18.58%) Visual Studio Code
3 16 (14.16%) GitLab
4 15 (13.27%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (14.16%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.96%) Marketing
4 8 (7.08%) Electronics
4 8 (7.08%) Retail
5 7 (6.19%) Automotive
5 7 (6.19%) Finance
6 6 (5.31%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.65%) Games
8 2 (1.77%) Advertising
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (45.13%) Software Engineer
2 25 (22.12%) Senior
3 21 (18.58%) FPGA Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (14.16%) Developer
6 13 (11.50%) Python Developer
7 12 (10.62%) Embedded Engineer
8 11 (9.73%) Lead
9 9 (7.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 9 (7.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Design Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Development Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) FPGA Design Engineer
10 7 (6.19%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Security Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) DSP Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.50%) NumPy
1 13 (11.50%) Pandas
2 6 (5.31%) React
3 5 (4.42%) REST
4 4 (3.54%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.54%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.65%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.77%) Faiss
6 2 (1.77%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.77%) Flask
6 2 (1.77%) Google JAX
6 2 (1.77%) JAX
6 2 (1.77%) Kafka
6 2 (1.77%) Node.js
6 2 (1.77%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.77%) SciPy
6 2 (1.77%) Spring
6 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.88%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.35%) FPGA
2 20 (17.70%) VHDL
3 18 (15.93%) PCIe
4 17 (15.04%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (10.62%) NVMe
5 12 (10.62%) Product Ownership
6 8 (7.08%) Data Structures
6 8 (7.08%) Verilog
7 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.65%) CUDA
8 3 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.65%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.65%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.88%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.88%) GNSS
9 1 (0.88%) IoT
9 1 (0.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (55.75%) Software Engineering
2 33 (29.20%) Computer Science
3 31 (27.43%) Signal Processing
4 28 (24.78%) Agile
5 23 (20.35%) AI
6 22 (19.47%) DevOps
7 21 (18.58%) CI/CD
8 20 (17.70%) Software Architecture
9 19 (16.81%) FPGA Design
10 18 (15.93%) Software Testing
11 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (15.04%) Deep Learning
11 17 (15.04%) Line Management
12 16 (14.16%) Embedded Software Development
12 16 (14.16%) Kanban
12 16 (14.16%) Scrum
13 15 (13.27%) Test Automation
14 14 (12.39%) Digital Signal Processing
14 14 (12.39%) Roadmaps
15 13 (11.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (54.87%) Python
2 53 (46.90%) C++
3 27 (23.89%) C
4 23 (20.35%) C#
5 13 (11.50%) MATLAB
6 12 (10.62%) Assembly Language
7 8 (7.08%) Go
7 8 (7.08%) Java
8 7 (6.19%) Embedded C
8 7 (6.19%) Embedded C++
9 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.42%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.54%) Rust
11 3 (2.65%) SQL
12 2 (1.77%) Julia
13 1 (0.88%) R
13 1 (0.88%) Scala
13 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.88%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 36 (31.86%) Degree
2 30 (26.55%) Security Cleared
3 18 (15.93%) Master's Degree
4 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
5 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.77%) PhD
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (2.65%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 27 (23.89%) Firmware
2 22 (19.47%) Docker
3 14 (12.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (11.50%) Xilinx
2 12 (10.62%) Altera
3 9 (7.96%) Google
4 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.65%) Databricks
5 3 (2.65%) IBM
6 2 (1.77%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.88%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.88%) BT
7 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.88%) Screaming Frog