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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 190 122
Rank change year-on-year -14 -68 +67
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 146 100 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.76% 1.12% 2.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 2.81% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 98 49 117
10th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £59,063 £52,145 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £63,150 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% +1.04% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,900 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,375 £105,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.39% +8.62% -10.34%

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 5,044 3,565 3,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.36% 39.96% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,438 1,790 1,734
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,542
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -0.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,167 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% -8.33% -4.00%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +18 87 £75,000 +25.52% 10
Thames Valley -12 27 £90,000 +61.54% 10
Oxfordshire -16 16 £100,000 +42.86% 6
Berkshire -17 11 £60,000 +21.90% 2
Kent -12 7 - - 1
Surrey -44 6 £70,000 -22.22% 8
West Sussex -27 5 - - 1
Middlesex - 5 - -
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 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (8.90%) Simulink
2 5 (3.42%) Mathematica
3 1 (0.68%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 9 (6.16%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.59%) Azure
2 11 (7.53%) AWS
3 4 (2.74%) GCP
4 3 (2.05%) GitHub
5 2 (1.37%) PaaS
5 2 (1.37%) SaaS
6 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.79%) Wireless
2 6 (4.11%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (2.74%) 5G
4 3 (2.05%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.68%) 5G NR
5 1 (0.68%) HTTP
5 1 (0.68%) MQTT
5 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
1 2 (1.37%) MySQL
1 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.37%) Pinecone
1 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (19.18%) Git
2 11 (7.53%) Visual Studio Code
3 9 (6.16%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (4.79%) GitLab
5 3 (2.05%) CMake
5 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.37%) MLflow
7 1 (0.68%) MSTest
7 1 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 22 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.59%) Aerospace
3 10 (6.85%) Electronics
4 6 (4.11%) Aviation
4 6 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.11%) Military
5 5 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.42%) Finance
5 5 (3.42%) Retail
6 4 (2.74%) Advertising
7 3 (2.05%) Police
8 2 (1.37%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.37%) Publishing
8 2 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (28.77%) Software Engineer
2 29 (19.86%) Senior
3 25 (17.12%) FPGA Engineer
4 24 (16.44%) Lead
5 18 (12.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 14 (9.59%) Design Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (6.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Architect
10 9 (6.16%) ASIC Architect
10 9 (6.16%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) Data Scientist
11 7 (4.79%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Firmware Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Machine Learning Researcher
12 6 (4.11%) Senior Firmware Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.48%) React
2 6 (4.11%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.11%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.74%) CSS
3 4 (2.74%) FastAPI
3 4 (2.74%) HTML
3 4 (2.74%) NumPy
3 4 (2.74%) Pandas
3 4 (2.74%) scikit-learn
4 3 (2.05%) .NET
4 3 (2.05%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.05%) Yocto
5 2 (1.37%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.37%) Flask
5 2 (1.37%) gRPC
5 2 (1.37%) Kafka
5 2 (1.37%) Node.js
5 2 (1.37%) OpenCV
5 2 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.92%) FPGA
2 28 (19.18%) Embedded Systems
3 23 (15.75%) PCIe
3 23 (15.75%) VHDL
4 16 (10.96%) Data Structures
4 16 (10.96%) Verilog
5 12 (8.22%) ASIC
5 12 (8.22%) Product Ownership
6 9 (6.16%) NVMe
7 8 (5.48%) Robotics
8 7 (4.79%) Synthetic Data
9 5 (3.42%) Driving Licence
9 5 (3.42%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (3.42%) SCADA
10 4 (2.74%) Educational Technology
10 4 (2.74%) Hackathon
11 3 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (2.05%) SystemC
12 2 (1.37%) CUDA
12 2 (1.37%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.85%) Linux
2 3 (2.05%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (1.37%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.41%) Software Engineering
2 44 (30.14%) AI
3 35 (23.97%) Computer Science
4 33 (22.60%) Agile
5 32 (21.92%) Signal Processing
6 27 (18.49%) CI/CD
6 27 (18.49%) FPGA Design
7 26 (17.81%) Machine Learning
8 24 (16.44%) Test Automation
9 18 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (12.33%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.33%) Systems Engineering
9 18 (12.33%) Validation
10 17 (11.64%) Mentoring
11 16 (10.96%) DevOps
11 16 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (10.27%) Digital Signal Processing
12 15 (10.27%) Mathematics
13 14 (9.59%) Software Architecture
13 14 (9.59%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (49.32%) Python
2 57 (39.04%) C++
3 33 (22.60%) C
4 24 (16.44%) MATLAB
5 17 (11.64%) C#
6 16 (10.96%) Java
7 12 (8.22%) Embedded C++
8 9 (6.16%) Assembly Language
8 9 (6.16%) Embedded C
9 8 (5.48%) Go
9 8 (5.48%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.79%) Rust
11 6 (4.11%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (2.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (31.51%) Degree
2 44 (30.14%) Security Cleared
3 24 (16.44%) SC Cleared
4 20 (13.70%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.85%) PhD
6 9 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.16%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.74%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) ECSS
4 1 (0.68%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 35 (23.97%) Firmware
2 22 (15.07%) Embedded Firmware
3 20 (13.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 13 (8.90%) Xilinx
2 11 (7.53%) Altera
3 7 (4.79%) Thales
4 4 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.37%) Google
5 2 (1.37%) Intel
5 2 (1.37%) Microsemi
5 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.68%) Cadence
6 1 (0.68%) Siemens
6 1 (0.68%) Synopsys