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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 108 114
Rank change year-on-year -113 +6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 52 200 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 2.65% 2.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 7.91% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17 107 170
10th Percentile £48,000 £40,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,145 £48,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -2.26% +0.38% -11.67%

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 3,364 2,529 4,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.01% 33.48% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,786 1,181 3,183
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £41,250 £35,000
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 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.40% +13.64% -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 7 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 7 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
Thames Valley -86 18 £58,215 -6.86% 39
Surrey -7 17 £86,250 +15.00% 11
Hampshire -23 14 £70,000 +7.69% 31
Berkshire -17 12 £58,215 +11.95% 18
Oxfordshire -32 4 £40,000 -29.21% 12
Buckinghamshire -48 2 £67,000 -11.84% 9
Isle of Wight -11 1 - - 2
Kent -18 1 £75,900 - 8
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 - 3
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 (9.62%) IIS
2 2 (3.85%) CMS
3 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) AWS
1 7 (13.46%) Google Analytics
2 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.92%) S/MIME
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) Metadata
2 7 (13.46%) Data Lake
3 6 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 6 (11.54%) Tableau
4 5 (9.62%) Big Data
4 5 (9.62%) Data Mining
4 5 (9.62%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.92%) GIS
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Power BI
5 1 (1.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) GitLab
3 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (1.92%) TestRail
General
1 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Marketing
3 8 (15.38%) Finance
4 7 (13.46%) Automotive
4 7 (13.46%) Retail
5 6 (11.54%) Electronics
6 5 (9.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.92%) Advertising
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) Senior
3 7 (13.46%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) FPGA Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Lead
4 5 (9.62%) Data Science Manager
4 5 (9.62%) Development Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Senior Manager
4 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) SEO Specialist
4 5 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) CUDA Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) CUDA Software Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) FHIR
2 5 (9.62%) Play Framework
3 2 (3.85%) NumPy
3 2 (3.85%) Pandas
3 2 (3.85%) Qt
4 1 (1.92%) GStreamer
4 1 (1.92%) HTML
4 1 (1.92%) Laravel
4 1 (1.92%) React
4 1 (1.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) FPGA
2 7 (13.46%) Life Science
2 7 (13.46%) Omics
3 6 (11.54%) NVMe
3 6 (11.54%) PCIe
3 6 (11.54%) VHDL
4 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.77%) CUDA
6 2 (3.85%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.92%) Blog
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.92%) GNSS
7 1 (1.92%) IoT
7 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (1.92%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) AI
2 20 (38.46%) Analytics
3 19 (36.54%) Computer Science
4 16 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
6 14 (26.92%) Roadmaps
7 13 (25.00%) Data Science
8 12 (23.08%) Decision-Making
8 12 (23.08%) Statistics
9 11 (21.15%) Signal Processing
10 10 (19.23%) Agile
11 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (17.31%) Mathematics
11 9 (17.31%) SEO
12 8 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
12 8 (15.38%) B2B
12 8 (15.38%) Customer Experience
12 8 (15.38%) Data Analysis
12 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (13.46%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 22 (42.31%) C++
2 18 (34.62%) Python
3 11 (21.15%) C
4 6 (11.54%) Assembly Language
4 6 (11.54%) Java
4 6 (11.54%) R
4 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 5 (9.62%) C#
5 5 (9.62%) Scala
6 3 (5.77%) Bash
7 2 (3.85%) Fortran
7 2 (3.85%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.92%) Julia
8 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (42.31%) Degree
2 15 (28.85%) Master's Degree
3 12 (23.08%) PhD
4 5 (9.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (9.62%) MBA
4 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) CEH
6 1 (1.92%) CISM
6 1 (1.92%) CISSP
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) GIAC
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Accessibility
1 7 (13.46%) CDISC
1 7 (13.46%) GxP
1 7 (13.46%) HL7
2 5 (9.62%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.92%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Firmware
2 6 (11.54%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Google
2 6 (11.54%) Altera
2 6 (11.54%) Xilinx
3 5 (9.62%) BT
3 5 (9.62%) Databricks
3 5 (9.62%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) Ahrefs
4 2 (3.85%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.92%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.92%) Thales