Algorithms Jobs 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 95 179
Rank change year-on-year +54 +84 -25
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 544 475 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.40% 2.65% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.33% 8.04% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 395 232 137
10th Percentile - £35,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £41,250 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.72% -3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £91,750
England median annual salary £70,600 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.96% -13.79% -3.33%

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 4,081 5,909 5,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 40.53% 32.91% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,032 3,730 2,954
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £32,325
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,845
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.47% +1.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the South East

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the South East.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the South East

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 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
Isle of Wight - 423 £70,600 - 6
Thames Valley -52 68 £52,000 -10.34% 131
Berkshire +11 52 £52,000 -10.34% 72
Surrey +20 15 £67,500 +21.08% 47
Hampshire -36 15 £52,500 -12.50% 69
West Sussex +37 13 - - 16
Oxfordshire -10 8 £55,000 +2.20% 40
Buckinghamshire -36 8 £50,000 +8.11% 22
East Sussex +30 5 £41,500 - 7
Middlesex - 5 - - 6
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (0.55%) CMS
1 3 (0.55%) WordPress
2 1 (0.18%) Apache
2 1 (0.18%) GemFire
2 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (2.57%) Simulink
2 12 (2.21%) Mathcad
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 30 (5.51%) Vertex AI
2 20 (3.68%) Azure
3 10 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (1.65%) GCP
5 8 (1.47%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (0.92%) Google Analytics
8 3 (0.55%) AWS
8 3 (0.55%) Google Docs
8 3 (0.55%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.37%) IaaS
10 1 (0.18%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.18%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) MQTT
1 2 (0.37%) WAN
2 1 (0.18%) DVB
2 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.72%) Data Mining
2 8 (1.47%) Power BI
3 6 (1.10%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.37%) Big Data
5 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Ignite
6 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.18%) GIS
6 1 (0.18%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.18%) Power Query
6 1 (0.18%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.18%) Redis
6 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.18%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 351 (64.52%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (1.47%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.29%) JIRA
4 4 (0.74%) Git
5 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.18%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.18%) CruiseControl
6 1 (0.18%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.18%) Hudson
6 1 (0.18%) MLflow
6 1 (0.18%) Subversion
6 1 (0.18%) TestRail
6 1 (0.18%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 415 (76.29%) Electronics
2 66 (12.13%) Social Skills
3 57 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.01%) Retail
5 46 (8.46%) Law
6 14 (2.57%) Marketing
7 13 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.47%) Finance
9 7 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.74%) Games
10 4 (0.74%) Legal
11 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.37%) Advertising
12 2 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.37%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.18%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.18%) Aviation
13 1 (0.18%) Front Office
13 1 (0.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 352 (64.71%) Systems Engineer
2 204 (37.50%) Senior
3 196 (36.03%) Principal Engineer
4 194 (35.66%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 157 (28.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 48 (8.82%) Lead
7 34 (6.25%) Radar Engineer
8 25 (4.60%) Software Engineer
9 12 (2.21%) Mathematical Modeller
10 10 (1.84%) C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (1.10%) Analyst
11 6 (1.10%) Data Analyst
11 6 (1.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (0.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (0.92%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (0.92%) Copywriter
12 5 (0.92%) Developer
12 5 (0.92%) Digital Copywriter
12 5 (0.92%) Marketing Copywriter
13 4 (0.74%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.47%) .NET
2 6 (1.10%) AngularJS
2 6 (1.10%) ASP.NET
2 6 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (0.92%) CSS
3 5 (0.92%) HTML
4 4 (0.74%) Qt
5 3 (0.55%) React
5 3 (0.55%) WPF
6 2 (0.37%) gRPC
6 2 (0.37%) OpenEmbedded
6 2 (0.37%) WinForms
6 2 (0.37%) Yocto
7 1 (0.18%) Middleware
7 1 (0.18%) OpenGL
7 1 (0.18%) PySpark
7 1 (0.18%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.18%) Spring
7 1 (0.18%) STL
7 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (1.84%) Blog
1 10 (1.84%) Data Structures
2 7 (1.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 5 (0.92%) FPGA
4 5 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (0.74%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (0.55%) Device Driver
6 3 (0.55%) IoT
6 3 (0.55%) Social Media
6 3 (0.55%) VHDL
7 2 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.37%) CCTV
7 2 (0.37%) Robotics
8 1 (0.18%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.18%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.18%) Derivative
8 1 (0.18%) Equities
8 1 (0.18%) GNSS
8 1 (0.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.31%) Linux
2 7 (1.29%) Windows
3 6 (1.10%) Unix
4 2 (0.37%) Android
4 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (78.31%) Signal Processing
1 426 (78.31%) Systems Engineering
2 412 (75.74%) Technical Leadership
3 194 (35.66%) Test Planning
4 83 (15.26%) Mentoring
5 79 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 61 (11.21%) Artificial Intelligence
7 60 (11.03%) Architectural Design
7 60 (11.03%) Machine Learning
7 60 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (10.29%) Analytics
9 52 (9.56%) Agile
10 49 (9.01%) DevOps
11 44 (8.09%) Data Science
11 44 (8.09%) MLOps
12 43 (7.90%) Visualisation
13 42 (7.72%) Use Case
14 41 (7.54%) Data Engineering
14 41 (7.54%) Statistical Modelling
14 41 (7.54%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 80 (14.71%) R
2 52 (9.56%) Python
3 25 (4.60%) C++
4 18 (3.31%) MATLAB
5 17 (3.13%) Java
6 11 (2.02%) C
6 11 (2.02%) C#
7 9 (1.65%) SQL
8 6 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.92%) Bash
9 5 (0.92%) Fortran
10 4 (0.74%) Go
11 3 (0.55%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.55%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 423 (77.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 32 (5.88%) Degree
3 16 (2.94%) PhD
4 15 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.02%) Security Cleared
6 9 (1.65%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (1.47%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (77.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (1.10%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 351 (64.52%) IBM
2 47 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.72%) Google
4 30 (5.51%) OpenAI
5 12 (2.21%) Databricks
5 12 (2.21%) MathWorks
6 7 (1.29%) Ahrefs
6 7 (1.29%) SAP
7 4 (0.74%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (0.55%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle
9 1 (0.18%) Solace
9 1 (0.18%) TIBCO