Algorithms Jobs 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 164 171
Rank change year-on-year +62 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 74 134 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.12% 1.45% 1.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.77% 4.55% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11 94 64
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £44,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £65,000 £78,911
90th Percentile - £80,500 £98,500
England median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.62% -13.33% +7.14%

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 1,093 2,944 2,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.34% 31.93% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 599 2,036 1,407
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £28,900
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £37,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -4.76% -1.15%
75th Percentile £68,525 £66,250 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,150 £82,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the South West

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Algorithms in the South West

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 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
Gloucestershire +86 43 £72,500 +45.00% 29
Bristol +5 18 £70,000 +16.67% 36
Somerset +7 4 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Devon +16 3 - - 9
Wiltshire - 3 - - 5
Cornwall - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dorset +18 1 £55,000 +29.41% 11
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (27.03%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.70%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (4.05%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (4.05%) InDesign
1 3 (4.05%) Photoshop
1 3 (4.05%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Ripple
1 3 (4.05%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.51%) AWS
1 10 (13.51%) Azure
2 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.35%) GCP
4 1 (1.35%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (1.35%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (55.41%) Big Data
2 6 (8.11%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.05%) Power BI
3 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.05%) Tableau
4 2 (2.70%) GIS
4 2 (2.70%) MySQL
4 2 (2.70%) QGIS
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.35%) DB2
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) Babel
2 1 (1.35%) Vite
General
1 47 (63.51%) Finance
2 41 (55.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (22.97%) Social Skills
4 14 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (14.86%) Electronics
6 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.05%) Digital Economy
6 3 (4.05%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.05%) Law
6 3 (4.05%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Environmental Health
7 2 (2.70%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.35%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (62.16%) Data Scientist
2 28 (37.84%) Senior
3 23 (31.08%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (6.76%) Developer
4 5 (6.76%) Lead
4 5 (6.76%) Team Leader
5 4 (5.41%) Software Developer
5 4 (5.41%) Software Team Leader
6 3 (4.05%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Data Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Data Science Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Remote Sensing Specialist
7 2 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (2.70%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.35%) Computer Scientist
8 1 (1.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) .NET
1 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET
1 5 (6.76%) REST
1 5 (6.76%) scikit-learn
2 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
2 4 (5.41%) .NET Framework
2 4 (5.41%) Entity Framework
2 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
2 4 (5.41%) React
2 4 (5.41%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.05%) NumPy
3 3 (4.05%) Pandas
4 2 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.35%) Flask
5 1 (1.35%) Hugging Face
5 1 (1.35%) Keras
5 1 (1.35%) Node.js
5 1 (1.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (54.05%) Cyberattack
2 11 (14.86%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.41%) Blockchain
4 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.05%) IoT
4 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) Social Media
5 2 (2.70%) Lidar
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Apple iOS
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
2 3 (4.05%) Android
3 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (71.62%) Computer Science
2 52 (70.27%) Machine Learning
2 52 (70.27%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (67.57%) Data Science
4 46 (62.16%) Data Analysis
4 46 (62.16%) Visualisation
5 45 (60.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 44 (59.46%) Mathematics
7 43 (58.11%) Exploratory Data Analysis
8 41 (55.41%) Statistics
9 40 (54.05%) OpenUP
10 31 (41.89%) Software Engineering
11 29 (39.19%) Analytics
12 28 (37.84%) Decision-Making
12 28 (37.84%) Mentoring
13 23 (31.08%) DevOps
14 22 (29.73%) LLM
14 22 (29.73%) Predictive Modelling
15 20 (27.03%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 20 (27.03%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.24%) Python
2 30 (40.54%) Java
3 23 (31.08%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.86%) C++
5 9 (12.16%) C#
5 9 (12.16%) SQL
6 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 4 (5.41%) R
8 3 (4.05%) MATLAB
9 2 (2.70%) Go
9 2 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.35%) PHP
10 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (68.92%) Degree
2 43 (58.11%) Security Cleared
3 42 (56.76%) DV Cleared
4 23 (31.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (27.03%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (10.81%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.05%) PhD
8 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (29.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (29.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.05%) Adobe
2 2 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (1.35%) IBM
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat