Algorithms Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 222 93
Rank change year-on-year -104 -129 +95
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 298 429 1,946
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.46% 2.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 3.52% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 211 241 549
10th Percentile - £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,600 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -10.65%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,831 12,173 23,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.86% 41.47% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,723 5,413 15,169
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Algorithms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Algorithms job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Algorithms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Algorithms

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South East -55 103 £60,000 -3.23% 59
North of England -36 63 £37,500 -49.66% 39
South West -81 42 £60,000 -11.11% 35
East of England -37 38 £40,000 -26.61% 43
Midlands -38 31 £55,000 -8.33% 25
North West -1 30 £37,500 -57.70% 19
West Midlands -20 20 £46,500 -22.50% 8
Yorkshire -36 20 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Scotland -18 14 £39,500 -31.30% 16
North East -29 13 £37,500 -63.86% 5
East Midlands -41 10 £75,000 +25.00% 17
Wales -41 5 £57,500 -7.26% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 3
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 50 (16.78%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.68%) CMS
4 5 (1.68%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (16.44%) Chatbot
2 11 (3.69%) Simulink
3 3 (1.01%) CATIA
4 2 (0.67%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (4.03%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 78 (26.17%) AWS
2 54 (18.12%) Cloud Computing
3 15 (5.03%) Azure
4 13 (4.36%) Google Analytics
5 8 (2.68%) GCP
6 7 (2.35%) SaaS
7 5 (1.68%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.34%) Google Ads
8 4 (1.34%) Prefect
8 4 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Slack
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.34%) Firebase
10 1 (0.34%) Google App Engine
10 1 (0.34%) PaaS
10 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.02%) Broadband
2 6 (2.01%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.68%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.34%) Internet
5 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) Firewall
6 1 (0.34%) IPsec
6 1 (0.34%) MQTT
6 1 (0.34%) RS-422
6 1 (0.34%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.38%) Metadata
2 11 (3.69%) Big Data
3 10 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.35%) Hadoop
4 7 (2.35%) Tableau
5 6 (2.01%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.68%) GIS
6 5 (1.68%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.34%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 69 (23.15%) Visual Studio Code
2 36 (12.08%) Git
3 25 (8.39%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (5.03%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) JIRA
5 2 (0.67%) PetaLinux
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 74 (24.83%) Finance
2 60 (20.13%) Retail
3 55 (18.46%) Manufacturing
4 44 (14.77%) Social Skills
5 36 (12.08%) Marketing
6 34 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (8.72%) Electronics
8 14 (4.70%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.36%) Automotive
10 12 (4.03%) Games
11 9 (3.02%) Advertising
12 8 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.34%) Aviation
14 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.01%) Aeronautics
15 3 (1.01%) Banking
15 3 (1.01%) French Language
15 3 (1.01%) Legal
15 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (23.49%) Software Engineer
2 46 (15.44%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (15.44%) Programmer
2 46 (15.44%) Trainee
2 46 (15.44%) Trainee Programmer
3 45 (15.10%) Senior
4 40 (13.42%) Developer
5 24 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
6 23 (7.72%) FPGA Engineer
6 23 (7.72%) Python Developer
7 21 (7.05%) Embedded Engineer
7 21 (7.05%) Systems Engineer
8 16 (5.37%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 14 (4.70%) Lead
10 13 (4.36%) SEO Specialist
11 11 (3.69%) Algorithm Engineer
11 11 (3.69%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 10 (3.36%) Graduate
12 10 (3.36%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.36%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (23.83%) NumPy
1 71 (23.83%) Pandas
2 52 (17.45%) Matplotlib
2 52 (17.45%) scikit-learn
3 50 (16.78%) Streamlit
4 49 (16.44%) Hugging Face
5 17 (5.70%) .NET
6 16 (5.37%) HTML
6 16 (5.37%) PyTorch
7 14 (4.70%) TensorFlow
8 11 (3.69%) CSS
9 10 (3.36%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.35%) OpenCV
11 6 (2.01%) REST
12 5 (1.68%) Flask
12 5 (1.68%) Play Framework
12 5 (1.68%) React
12 5 (1.68%) SciPy
13 4 (1.34%) boto
13 4 (1.34%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.40%) FPGA
2 21 (7.05%) Embedded Systems
3 20 (6.71%) PCIe
3 20 (6.71%) VHDL
4 17 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 12 (4.03%) NVMe
5 12 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.02%) Robotics
7 8 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (2.35%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.01%) Verilog
10 5 (1.68%) 3D Graphics
10 5 (1.68%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.68%) CUDA
10 5 (1.68%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.34%) Cybercrime
11 4 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.05%) Linux
2 7 (2.35%) Windows
3 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.34%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.34%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.34%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.01%) Android
5 3 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 100 (33.56%) AI
3 91 (30.54%) Machine Learning
4 64 (21.48%) Computer Science
4 64 (21.48%) Visualisation
5 59 (19.80%) LLM
5 59 (19.80%) OOP
6 55 (18.46%) OO
7 52 (17.45%) Workflow
8 50 (16.78%) Neural Network
8 50 (16.78%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 49 (16.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 49 (16.44%) Conversational UI
9 49 (16.44%) Customer Service
9 49 (16.44%) Data Privacy
9 49 (16.44%) Prompt Engineering
9 49 (16.44%) Sentiment Analysis
9 49 (16.44%) Signal Processing
10 38 (12.75%) Analytics
11 34 (11.41%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 161 (54.03%) Python
2 75 (25.17%) C++
3 42 (14.09%) C#
4 39 (13.09%) C
5 21 (7.05%) SQL
6 19 (6.38%) MATLAB
7 13 (4.36%) Java
8 12 (4.03%) Assembly Language
9 9 (3.02%) Embedded C
9 9 (3.02%) Embedded C++
10 8 (2.68%) Go
10 8 (2.68%) R
11 7 (2.35%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.68%) Scala
13 4 (1.34%) Rust
13 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.67%) Julia
15 1 (0.34%) SystemVerilog
15 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (22.48%) Degree
2 50 (16.78%) AWS Certification
3 49 (16.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 34 (11.41%) Security Cleared
5 29 (9.73%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.04%) SC Cleared
7 17 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (4.36%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.36%) PhD
9 11 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.68%) MBA
11 3 (1.01%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 5 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (1.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.68%) QA
3 4 (1.34%) GDPR
3 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (0.67%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 32 (10.74%) Firmware
2 26 (8.72%) Docker
3 14 (4.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.68%) SCCM
2 5 (1.68%) SCOM
2 5 (1.68%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.38%) Google
3 18 (6.04%) IBM
4 16 (5.37%) Altera
5 13 (4.36%) Xilinx
6 12 (4.03%) Databricks
7 8 (2.68%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.68%) BT
8 5 (1.68%) Dell
8 5 (1.68%) HP
8 5 (1.68%) McAfee
8 5 (1.68%) VMware
9 3 (1.01%) Botify
9 3 (1.01%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.67%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.34%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.34%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.34%) Thales