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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 188 210
Rank change year-on-year -155 +22 -36
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 176 569 421
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 1.48% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% 4.40% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 98 312 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,328
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,801 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.11% -2.50%
75th Percentile £75,675 £76,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,130 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £75,900 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +8.43% -0.82% -2.65%

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 13,944 12,946 10,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.27% 33.66% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,480 5,820 7,527
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £40,900 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,102 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% -4.62%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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
South East -95 55 £69,525 +3.00% 142
East of England -34 41 £55,000 -27.63% 84
South West -43 24 £40,792 -37.24% 87
Midlands -10 23 £75,000 +25.00% 80
North of England -4 18 £35,000 -34.28% 90
West Midlands +14 13 £60,000 +3.45% 40
North West +11 10 £38,250 -35.72% 43
Wales 0 8 £57,500 +4.55% 15
East Midlands -19 8 £75,000 +25.00% 34
Yorkshire -24 8 £35,000 -22.22% 35
Scotland -10 7 £75,900 +68.67% 32
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 17 (9.66%) Kinematics
2 4 (2.27%) IIS
2 4 (2.27%) WordPress
3 3 (1.70%) CMS
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Simulink
2 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.57%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.25%) AWS
2 9 (5.11%) Google Analytics
2 9 (5.11%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.41%) Azure
3 6 (3.41%) GCP
4 5 (2.84%) Google Workspace
5 4 (2.27%) Google Docs
5 4 (2.27%) Google Sheets
5 4 (2.27%) Google Tag Manager
5 4 (2.27%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.14%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Vertex AI
7 1 (0.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.57%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.57%) PaaS
7 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.57%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) S/MIME
2 1 (0.57%) VPN
2 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) Metadata
2 10 (5.68%) Data Lake
2 10 (5.68%) Tableau
3 9 (5.11%) Power BI
4 8 (4.55%) Big Data
5 6 (3.41%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.84%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.70%) GIS
9 2 (1.14%) Looker
10 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.57%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.57%) Parquet
10 1 (0.57%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 36 (20.45%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.98%) Git
3 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.70%) JIRA
3 3 (1.70%) TestRail
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (36.93%) Electronics
2 41 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.64%) Marketing
4 20 (11.36%) Finance
5 8 (4.55%) Aviation
5 8 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.84%) Games
6 5 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.27%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.27%) Retail
8 3 (1.70%) Aeronautics
8 3 (1.70%) Avionics
8 3 (1.70%) Law
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (21.59%) Systems Engineer
2 36 (20.45%) Lead
3 31 (17.61%) Principal Engineer
4 30 (17.05%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 26 (14.77%) Senior
6 18 (10.23%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.66%) Robotics Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) SEO Manager
9 8 (4.55%) Analyst
9 8 (4.55%) Developer
9 8 (4.55%) SEO Executive
10 7 (3.98%) C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.84%) Account Manager
12 5 (2.84%) Firmware Engineer
12 5 (2.84%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.84%) SEO Account Manager
13 4 (2.27%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.66%) Middleware
2 10 (5.68%) FHIR
2 10 (5.68%) TensorFlow
3 8 (4.55%) HTML
3 8 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 7 (3.98%) CSS
5 6 (3.41%) Qt
6 5 (2.84%) .NET
6 5 (2.84%) scikit-learn
7 4 (2.27%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.27%) DirectX
7 4 (2.27%) OpenGL
7 4 (2.27%) Play Framework
8 3 (1.70%) NumPy
8 3 (1.70%) Pandas
8 3 (1.70%) WPF
9 2 (1.14%) Keras
9 2 (1.14%) React
10 1 (0.57%) Redux
10 1 (0.57%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Robotics
2 12 (6.82%) 3D Graphics
2 12 (6.82%) Life Science
3 10 (5.68%) Omics
4 7 (3.98%) Social Media
5 6 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.84%) FPGA
7 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.70%) Arduino
8 3 (1.70%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (1.70%) Blog
8 3 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.70%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.70%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (1.14%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.14%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.55%) Linux
2 4 (2.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Android
3 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.11%) AI
2 51 (28.98%) Software Engineering
3 50 (28.41%) Signal Processing
4 49 (27.84%) Machine Learning
5 45 (25.57%) Analytics
6 42 (23.86%) Systems Engineering
7 41 (23.30%) Technical Leadership
8 39 (22.16%) Computer Science
9 38 (21.59%) Mathematics
10 34 (19.32%) Data Science
11 30 (17.05%) Test Planning
12 29 (16.48%) Agile
13 26 (14.77%) Physics
14 25 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
15 24 (13.64%) Statistics
16 22 (12.50%) OO
17 20 (11.36%) Decision-Making
17 20 (11.36%) Project Management
17 20 (11.36%) SEO
18 17 (9.66%) Control Theory
Programming Languages
1 52 (29.55%) Python
2 43 (24.43%) C++
3 41 (23.30%) C
4 24 (13.64%) C#
5 20 (11.36%) SQL
6 15 (8.52%) Java
7 13 (7.39%) MATLAB
7 13 (7.39%) R
8 8 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.98%) Bash
10 4 (2.27%) Fortran
10 4 (2.27%) Rust
10 4 (2.27%) Scala
10 4 (2.27%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.70%) Assembly Language
11 3 (1.70%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.70%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.70%) Swift
11 3 (1.70%) Tcl
12 1 (0.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 66 (37.50%) Degree
2 50 (28.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (15.34%) Master's Degree
4 24 (13.64%) PhD
5 23 (13.07%) Security Cleared
6 19 (10.80%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.84%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.27%) MBA
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.57%) GIAC
9 1 (0.57%) MCP
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (21.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.68%) CDISC
3 10 (5.68%) GxP
3 10 (5.68%) HL7
4 6 (3.41%) ISO 26262
5 5 (2.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.27%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.14%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.57%) GDPR
8 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Firmware
2 4 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.14%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 36 (20.45%) IBM
2 23 (13.07%) Google
3 10 (5.68%) Screaming Frog
4 9 (5.11%) Ahrefs
4 9 (5.11%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.84%) Databricks
6 4 (2.27%) BT
6 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.70%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.14%) Adobe
8 2 (1.14%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.14%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.57%) Foundry
9 1 (0.57%) Huawei
9 1 (0.57%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.57%) SAP
9 1 (0.57%) Thales
9 1 (0.57%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.57%) YouTube