Algorithms Job Trends in the South West

Algorithms
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 68 135
Rank change year-on-year -93 +67 +51
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 32 116 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.49% 4.09% 1.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 9.37% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 51 93
10th Percentile £33,175 £47,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.24% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £56,250 - £65,000
90th Percentile £68,875 £75,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% - -13.33%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,377 1,238 2,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 21.02% 43.67% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 835 626 1,994
10th Percentile £27,550 £30,000 £27,758
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £36,022
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £81,625
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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the South West

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the South West over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the South West

Algorithms
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the South West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Bristol -43 15 £37,500 -42.31% 23
Gloucestershire -33 6 £50,000 - 17
Dorset -13 5 £70,000 +27.27% 5
Wiltshire -9 4 £40,792 - 8
Cornwall -17 1 - - 6
Somerset -20 1 £75,900 +16.77% 6
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (18.75%) Jupyter
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Chatbot
2 2 (6.25%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (3.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Big Data
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Electronics
3 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
5 6 (18.75%) Retail
6 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (12.50%) Banking
7 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (6.25%) Marketing
8 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (3.13%) Games
9 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (3.13%) Law
9 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 6 (18.75%) Programmer
1 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Trainee
1 6 (18.75%) Trainee Programmer
2 5 (15.63%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Algorithm Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Graduate
5 2 (6.25%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) NumPy
1 10 (31.25%) Pandas
2 7 (21.88%) scikit-learn
3 6 (18.75%) Hugging Face
3 6 (18.75%) Matplotlib
3 6 (18.75%) Streamlit
4 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
5 1 (3.13%) Google JAX
5 1 (3.13%) JAX
5 1 (3.13%) OpenCV
5 1 (3.13%) PySpark
5 1 (3.13%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Social Media
3 2 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 2 (6.25%) FPGA
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.25%) VHDL
4 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 13 (40.63%) AI
3 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 8 (25.00%) OO
3 8 (25.00%) OOP
3 8 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) LLM
4 7 (21.88%) Neural Network
4 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
5 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Conversational UI
5 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
5 6 (18.75%) Data Science
5 6 (18.75%) Physics
5 6 (18.75%) Prompt Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 6 (18.75%) Sentiment Analysis
5 6 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) C++
3 6 (18.75%) C
4 4 (12.50%) Rust
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) R
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded C
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded C++
7 1 (3.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 6 (18.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
5 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Databricks
2 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) SAP