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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 160 162
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 -36
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 80 127 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.07% 1.23% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.80% 4.36% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7 78 55
10th Percentile £38,250 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,600 £62,847 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.34% -13.31% -3.33%

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 1,176 2,911 2,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.42% 28.21% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 638 2,001 1,475
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £37,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +83 47 £85,000 +70.00% 43
Dorset +25 13 - - 17
Bristol +16 11 £70,000 +27.27% 49
Somerset +8 4 £40,000 -20.00% 14
Wiltshire - 3 - - 6
Cornwall - 2 £42,500 -
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 (25.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.50%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (3.75%) Adobe Premiere
1 3 (3.75%) InDesign
1 3 (3.75%) Photoshop
1 3 (3.75%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) AWS
2 5 (6.25%) Azure
3 2 (2.50%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (1.25%) GCP
4 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (53.75%) Big Data
2 4 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.50%) GIS
4 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) QGIS
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.25%) Power BI
5 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Selenium
2 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (66.25%) Finance
1 53 (66.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Electronics
4 13 (16.25%) Law
5 12 (15.00%) Marketing
6 9 (11.25%) Social Skills
7 8 (10.00%) Aerospace
8 4 (5.00%) Automotive
8 4 (5.00%) Banking
8 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.50%) Environmental Health
10 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (52.50%) Data Scientist
2 26 (32.50%) Senior
3 22 (27.50%) Senior Data Scientist
4 14 (17.50%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Java Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Developer
8 4 (5.00%) DSP Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Lead
8 4 (5.00%) Process Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Electronics Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Software Team Leader
9 3 (3.75%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Remote Sensing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) .NET
1 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (5.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (5.00%) Entity Framework
1 4 (5.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (5.00%) REST
1 4 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (5.00%) TensorFlow
2 3 (3.75%) CSS
2 3 (3.75%) HTML
3 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.50%) HTML5
3 2 (2.50%) Kafka
3 2 (2.50%) MFC
3 2 (2.50%) React
3 2 (2.50%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.25%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 40 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 9 (11.25%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.00%) FPGA
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.00%) Verilog
4 4 (5.00%) VHDL
5 3 (3.75%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Social Media
6 2 (2.50%) Lidar
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.25%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.25%) IoT
7 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Windows
2 6 (7.50%) Apple iOS
3 4 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (73.75%) Machine Learning
2 56 (70.00%) Visualisation
3 55 (68.75%) Artificial Intelligence
4 49 (61.25%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (60.00%) Computer Science
6 44 (55.00%) Data Science
7 42 (52.50%) Data Analysis
7 42 (52.50%) Statistics
8 41 (51.25%) Mathematics
8 41 (51.25%) Software Engineering
9 40 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 40 (50.00%) OpenUP
10 28 (35.00%) Analytics
11 23 (28.75%) Decision-Making
11 23 (28.75%) Mentoring
12 22 (27.50%) LLM
13 21 (26.25%) DevOps
13 21 (26.25%) MLOps
14 20 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 20 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 38 (47.50%) Python
2 35 (43.75%) Java
3 23 (28.75%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.00%) C++
5 11 (13.75%) SQL
6 7 (8.75%) C#
7 4 (5.00%) C
8 3 (3.75%) MATLAB
8 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.50%) VC++
10 1 (1.25%) PHP
10 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (60.00%) Degree
2 44 (55.00%) Security Cleared
3 40 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 21 (26.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.75%) PhD
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (5.00%) Databricks
2 3 (3.75%) Adobe
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft