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 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 99 104
Rank change year-on-year -128 +5 +44
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 58 191 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.46% 2.84% 2.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.68% 8.68% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 103 181
10th Percentile £44,500 £43,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,625 £76,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.54% - -13.33%

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 3,453 2,200 5,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.17% 32.76% 34.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 1,186 3,498
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £81,875 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 26 March 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 26 March 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
Surrey -5 19 £82,500 +10.00% 8
Thames Valley -93 19 £60,000 -4.00% 34
Hampshire -13 17 £70,000 +7.69% 23
Berkshire -36 10 £60,000 +15.38% 16
Oxfordshire -28 6 £50,000 -11.52% 9
Buckinghamshire -66 3 £67,000 -11.84% 9
Isle of Wight -11 2 £50,000 -19.35% 2
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 5 (8.62%) IIS
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) CATIA
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 7 (12.07%) Google Analytics
3 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.72%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (5.17%) Broadband
3 1 (1.72%) S/MIME
3 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Metadata
2 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.34%) Tableau
3 5 (8.62%) Big Data
3 5 (8.62%) Data Mining
3 5 (8.62%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.72%) GIS
6 1 (1.72%) Power BI
6 1 (1.72%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (8.62%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (5.17%) GitLab
5 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.72%) JIRA
6 1 (1.72%) TestRail
General
1 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Marketing
3 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Retail
5 7 (12.07%) Automotive
5 7 (12.07%) Finance
6 6 (10.34%) Electronics
7 5 (8.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (5.17%) Games
9 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.72%) Advertising
10 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.72%) Banking
10 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Software Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Senior
3 10 (17.24%) FPGA Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Developer
6 6 (10.34%) Python Developer
7 5 (8.62%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (8.62%) Development Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) Senior Manager
7 5 (8.62%) SEO Specialist
7 5 (8.62%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Lead
8 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) CUDA Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) CUDA Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Design Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) FPGA Design Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) NumPy
1 6 (10.34%) Pandas
2 5 (8.62%) Play Framework
3 4 (6.90%) FHIR
4 3 (5.17%) REST
5 2 (3.45%) Qt
6 1 (1.72%) GStreamer
6 1 (1.72%) HTML
6 1 (1.72%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.72%) JAX
6 1 (1.72%) Laravel
6 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.72%) OpenCV
6 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.72%) React
6 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.72%) SciPy
6 1 (1.72%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.72%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) FPGA
2 9 (15.52%) VHDL
3 8 (13.79%) NVMe
3 8 (13.79%) PCIe
4 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.90%) Life Science
5 4 (6.90%) Omics
6 3 (5.17%) CUDA
6 3 (5.17%) Low-Code
6 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.17%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (3.45%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.72%) Blog
8 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.72%) IoT
8 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.72%) PKI
8 1 (1.72%) Smartcard
8 1 (1.72%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (46.55%) AI
2 19 (32.76%) Software Engineering
3 18 (31.03%) Machine Learning
4 17 (29.31%) Analytics
5 16 (27.59%) Roadmaps
6 14 (24.14%) Computer Science
6 14 (24.14%) Signal Processing
7 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (17.24%) Agile
8 10 (17.24%) Data Science
8 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
8 10 (17.24%) Generative AI
9 9 (15.52%) Data Analysis
9 9 (15.52%) FPGA Design
9 9 (15.52%) SEO
9 9 (15.52%) Statistics
9 9 (15.52%) Visualisation
10 8 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (13.79%) Deep Learning
10 8 (13.79%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.83%) Python
2 24 (41.38%) C++
3 12 (20.69%) C
4 8 (13.79%) Assembly Language
5 6 (10.34%) C#
5 6 (10.34%) Java
5 6 (10.34%) R
5 6 (10.34%) SQL
6 5 (8.62%) Scala
7 3 (5.17%) Go
7 3 (5.17%) MATLAB
8 2 (3.45%) Julia
9 1 (1.72%) Bash
9 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Degree
2 14 (24.14%) Master's Degree
3 8 (13.79%) PhD
4 5 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (8.62%) MBA
4 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.72%) CEH
7 1 (1.72%) CISM
7 1 (1.72%) CISSP
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) GIAC
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.90%) CDISC
2 4 (6.90%) GxP
2 4 (6.90%) HL7
3 3 (5.17%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Firmware
2 8 (13.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Xilinx
2 8 (13.79%) Altera
2 8 (13.79%) Google
3 6 (10.34%) Databricks
4 5 (8.62%) BT
4 5 (8.62%) IBM
5 2 (3.45%) Ahrefs
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.45%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.72%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.72%) Thales