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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 186 150
Rank change year-on-year -183 -36 +43
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 157 541 842
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 1.52% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.14% 4.45% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 76 289 298
10th Percentile £37,140 £45,000 £38,025
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £48,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,900 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.77% -3.70% -6.90%

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 13,827 12,157 14,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.39% 34.18% 34.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6,448 5,221 10,178
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,688 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +6.74% -6.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,250
90th Percentile £79,150 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -106 44 £58,215 -6.86% 260
East of England -40 36 £55,000 -27.63% 148
South West -50 25 £49,250 -24.23% 131
Midlands -6 19 £75,000 +25.00% 109
North of England -23 17 £45,000 -14.29% 137
North West -3 12 £55,000 -2.67% 53
West Midlands +3 9 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Wales +2 8 £57,500 -1.71% 40
East Midlands -15 8 £75,000 +25.00% 80
Scotland -27 8 £75,900 +68.67% 39
Yorkshire -26 5 £35,000 -22.22% 62
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 12 (7.64%) Kinematics
2 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.18%) IIS
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) WordPress
5 1 (0.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Simulink
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.27%) Shopify
1 2 (1.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.28%) AWS
2 8 (5.10%) Azure
2 8 (5.10%) GCP
3 5 (3.18%) Google Analytics
3 5 (3.18%) Google Workspace
3 5 (3.18%) Snowflake
4 4 (2.55%) Google Tag Manager
5 3 (1.91%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.27%) Google Docs
6 2 (1.27%) Google Sheets
6 2 (1.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub
7 1 (0.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.64%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.64%) PaaS
7 1 (0.64%) Serverless
7 1 (0.64%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.18%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (1.27%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.64%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
3 1 (0.64%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.64%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.28%) Metadata
2 12 (7.64%) Big Data
3 11 (7.01%) Tableau
4 10 (6.37%) Data Lake
5 8 (5.10%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.18%) Data Mining
8 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.91%) Power BI
10 2 (1.27%) Looker
11 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.64%) GIS
11 1 (0.64%) Parquet
11 1 (0.64%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 31 (19.75%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (3.18%) Git
3 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) JIRA
3 1 (0.64%) TestRail
General
1 54 (34.39%) Electronics
2 39 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (12.74%) Marketing
5 17 (10.83%) Finance
6 8 (5.10%) Aviation
7 6 (3.82%) Aeronautics
7 6 (3.82%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.82%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.55%) Automotive
9 4 (2.55%) Games
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Avionics
10 3 (1.91%) Banking
11 2 (1.27%) French Language
11 2 (1.27%) Italian Language
11 2 (1.27%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (1.27%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (19.75%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (18.47%) Lead
2 29 (18.47%) Principal Engineer
3 28 (17.83%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 19 (12.10%) Senior
5 16 (10.19%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.28%) Robotics Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) Developer
8 7 (4.46%) Algorithm Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.82%) SEO Executive
10 5 (3.18%) Data Science Manager
10 5 (3.18%) Firmware Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.55%) Analyst
11 4 (2.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 4 (2.55%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.55%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.64%) Middleware
2 11 (7.01%) TensorFlow
3 10 (6.37%) FHIR
4 9 (5.73%) PyTorch
5 8 (5.10%) HTML
6 7 (4.46%) .NET
6 7 (4.46%) CSS
7 6 (3.82%) NumPy
7 6 (3.82%) Pandas
8 5 (3.18%) Play Framework
8 5 (3.18%) scikit-learn
9 4 (2.55%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.55%) DirectX
9 4 (2.55%) OpenGL
10 3 (1.91%) Matplotlib
10 3 (1.91%) Seaborn
11 2 (1.27%) Keras
11 2 (1.27%) Qt
11 2 (1.27%) React
12 1 (0.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.92%) Robotics
2 12 (7.64%) Life Science
3 10 (6.37%) Omics
4 8 (5.10%) 3D Graphics
4 8 (5.10%) FPGA
5 7 (4.46%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.82%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.18%) Social Media
8 4 (2.55%) CUDA
8 4 (2.55%) PCIe
8 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.91%) Arduino
9 3 (1.91%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.91%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.91%) VHDL
9 3 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Linux
2 4 (2.55%) Unix
3 3 (1.91%) Android
3 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.64%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (32.48%) AI
2 46 (29.30%) Software Engineering
3 44 (28.03%) Machine Learning
3 44 (28.03%) Signal Processing
4 41 (26.11%) Computer Science
5 38 (24.20%) Analytics
6 34 (21.66%) Systems Engineering
6 34 (21.66%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (21.02%) Mathematics
8 31 (19.75%) Data Science
9 28 (17.83%) Test Planning
10 25 (15.92%) Physics
11 22 (14.01%) Decision-Making
12 21 (13.38%) Agile
12 21 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (13.38%) Statistics
13 16 (10.19%) OO
14 15 (9.55%) Data Analysis
14 15 (9.55%) Project Management
14 15 (9.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 54 (34.39%) Python
2 43 (27.39%) C++
3 39 (24.84%) C
4 19 (12.10%) C#
5 18 (11.46%) SQL
6 15 (9.55%) R
7 14 (8.92%) Java
7 14 (8.92%) MATLAB
8 10 (6.37%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.18%) Assembly Language
9 5 (3.18%) Bash
9 5 (3.18%) Scala
10 4 (2.55%) Fortran
10 4 (2.55%) Rust
10 4 (2.55%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.91%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.91%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.91%) Swift
11 3 (1.91%) Tcl
12 1 (0.64%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (38.85%) Degree
2 42 (26.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (14.65%) Master's Degree
3 23 (14.65%) PhD
3 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
4 19 (12.10%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.18%) MBA
7 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.91%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.64%) CEH
9 1 (0.64%) CISM
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) GIAC
9 1 (0.64%) MCP
9 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (18.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (7.64%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.37%) CDISC
3 10 (6.37%) GxP
3 10 (6.37%) HL7
4 6 (3.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (3.82%) ISO 26262
5 5 (3.18%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.55%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.27%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (1.27%) NIST
8 1 (0.64%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.64%) GDPR
8 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (8.28%) Firmware
2 6 (3.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.27%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (18.47%) IBM
2 17 (10.83%) Google
3 8 (5.10%) Screaming Frog
4 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.18%) Ahrefs
5 5 (3.18%) BT
5 5 (3.18%) Databricks
6 4 (2.55%) Altera
7 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (1.27%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.27%) Xilinx
9 1 (0.64%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.64%) Foundry
9 1 (0.64%) Huawei
9 1 (0.64%) SAP
9 1 (0.64%) Thales
9 1 (0.64%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.64%) YouTube