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 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 110 90
Rank change year-on-year -80 -20 +70
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 101 186 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.70% 2.42% 2.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.01% 6.42% 8.39%
Number of salaries quoted 62 102 209
10th Percentile £45,250 £43,750 £35,200
25th Percentile £52,875 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,600 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -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 3,356 2,896 5,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.41% 37.69% 34.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,108 1,420 3,749
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +6.12% -13.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 0 53 £70,000 +27.27% 21
Thames Valley -73 22 £60,000 - 21
Surrey -9 21 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Oxfordshire -10 11 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Berkshire -20 9 £60,000 +15.38% 9
Isle of Wight -17 3 £50,000 -29.18%
Buckinghamshire -45 2 £67,000 -11.84% 1
East Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
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 5 (4.95%) IIS
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Simulink
2 2 (1.98%) CATIA
3 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.88%) AWS
2 7 (6.93%) Google Analytics
3 5 (4.95%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.97%) Azure
5 2 (1.98%) Prefect
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.99%) PaaS
6 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (2.97%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.92%) Metadata
2 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.95%) Big Data
3 5 (4.95%) Data Mining
3 5 (4.95%) Hadoop
3 5 (4.95%) Tableau
4 4 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.99%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.99%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Git
2 20 (19.80%) Visual Studio Code
3 15 (14.85%) GitLab
3 15 (14.85%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (14.85%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (13.86%) Marketing
2 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.92%) Retail
4 7 (6.93%) Automotive
4 7 (6.93%) Finance
5 6 (5.94%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.94%) Electronics
6 5 (4.95%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.97%) Games
8 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.99%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (41.58%) Software Engineer
2 27 (26.73%) Senior
3 18 (17.82%) FPGA Engineer
4 15 (14.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (13.86%) Developer
6 13 (12.87%) Python Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Lead
7 8 (7.92%) Lead Software Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Design Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Development Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Data Science Manager
10 5 (4.95%) Senior Manager
10 5 (4.95%) SEO Specialist
11 4 (3.96%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.87%) NumPy
1 13 (12.87%) Pandas
2 5 (4.95%) Play Framework
3 3 (2.97%) React
3 3 (2.97%) REST
4 2 (1.98%) Google JAX
4 2 (1.98%) JAX
4 2 (1.98%) OpenCV
4 2 (1.98%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.98%) SciPy
4 2 (1.98%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.99%) .NET
5 1 (0.99%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.99%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.99%) HTML
5 1 (0.99%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.99%) Laravel
5 1 (0.99%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.99%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.99%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) FPGA
2 17 (16.83%) VHDL
3 15 (14.85%) PCIe
4 14 (13.86%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (11.88%) NVMe
5 12 (11.88%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.95%) Verilog
7 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.97%) CUDA
8 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.97%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.97%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.99%) Blog
9 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.99%) GNSS
9 1 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (53.47%) Software Engineering
2 32 (31.68%) Computer Science
3 27 (26.73%) Agile
4 25 (24.75%) Signal Processing
5 24 (23.76%) AI
6 19 (18.81%) Software Architecture
7 18 (17.82%) DevOps
7 18 (17.82%) Roadmaps
8 17 (16.83%) FPGA Design
8 17 (16.83%) Line Management
9 16 (15.84%) CI/CD
9 16 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (15.84%) Software Testing
10 15 (14.85%) Decision-Making
10 15 (14.85%) Deep Learning
10 15 (14.85%) Embedded Software Development
10 15 (14.85%) Kanban
10 15 (14.85%) Scrum
11 13 (12.87%) Analytics
11 13 (12.87%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 54 (53.47%) Python
2 46 (45.54%) C++
3 22 (21.78%) C#
4 21 (20.79%) C
5 12 (11.88%) Assembly Language
6 9 (8.91%) MATLAB
7 7 (6.93%) Java
8 5 (4.95%) Go
8 5 (4.95%) R
8 5 (4.95%) Scala
8 5 (4.95%) SQL
9 4 (3.96%) Embedded C
9 4 (3.96%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.98%) Julia
10 2 (1.98%) Rust
10 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.99%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 35 (34.65%) Degree
2 23 (22.77%) Security Cleared
3 20 (19.80%) Master's Degree
4 15 (14.85%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.95%) MBA
8 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.98%) PhD
10 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 5 (4.95%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (2.97%) QA
System Software
1 21 (20.79%) Firmware
2 17 (16.83%) Docker
3 12 (11.88%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Xilinx
2 12 (11.88%) Altera
3 8 (7.92%) Google
4 7 (6.93%) Databricks
5 5 (4.95%) BT
6 3 (2.97%) IBM
7 2 (1.98%) Ahrefs
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.98%) Screaming Frog
8 1 (0.99%) NVIDIA