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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 129 101
Rank change year-on-year -209 -28 +55
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 214 563 1,747
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 2.16% 2.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 6.11% 7.92%
Number of salaries quoted 129 312 490
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -13.33%

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 15,597 9,214 22,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.68% 35.33% 34.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,490 5,155 14,702
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -126 58 £60,000 -4.00% 101
North of England -63 47 £37,500 -47.91% 56
South West -103 33 £40,792 -32.01% 56
Midlands -39 31 £52,500 -12.50% 48
North West -29 28 £37,500 -57.70% 28
East of England -100 26 £42,500 -44.08% 48
West Midlands -10 19 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Yorkshire -59 13 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Scotland -46 11 £37,500 -16.67% 18
East Midlands -52 11 £75,000 +25.00% 27
Wales -31 8 £57,500 -4.17% 8
North East -17 6 £37,500 -59.46% 14
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 49 (22.90%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.34%) CMS
3 5 (2.34%) IIS
4 4 (1.87%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (22.90%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.87%) Simulink
3 2 (0.93%) CATIA
3 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.93%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.74%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 70 (32.71%) AWS
2 52 (24.30%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (5.14%) Google Analytics
4 8 (3.74%) Azure
5 7 (3.27%) GCP
6 5 (2.34%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.40%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.40%) Prefect
8 2 (0.93%) SaaS
8 2 (0.93%) Slack
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.47%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.47%) Firebase
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.47%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.47%) PaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.27%) Broadband
1 7 (3.27%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (2.34%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.93%) Internet
4 1 (0.47%) IPsec
4 1 (0.47%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.47%) VPN
4 1 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.48%) Metadata
2 10 (4.67%) Big Data
2 10 (4.67%) Tableau
3 7 (3.27%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.80%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.34%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.87%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.93%) Power BI
9 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.47%) GIS
9 1 (0.47%) Spotfire
9 1 (0.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (24.30%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (11.68%) Rational DOORS
3 15 (7.01%) Git
4 3 (1.40%) GitLab
4 3 (1.40%) JIRA
5 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) MLflow
6 1 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 66 (30.84%) Finance
2 60 (28.04%) Retail
3 54 (25.23%) Manufacturing
4 36 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (15.42%) Electronics
6 32 (14.95%) Social Skills
7 28 (13.08%) Marketing
8 13 (6.07%) Automotive
9 12 (5.61%) Games
10 7 (3.27%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.34%) Aviation
11 5 (2.34%) Banking
11 5 (2.34%) Legal
11 5 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.40%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.40%) French Language
13 3 (1.40%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.40%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.50%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (21.50%) Programmer
1 46 (21.50%) Trainee
1 46 (21.50%) Trainee Programmer
2 25 (11.68%) Software Engineer
3 24 (11.21%) Developer
4 22 (10.28%) Systems Engineer
5 19 (8.88%) Senior
6 15 (7.01%) Principal Engineer
6 15 (7.01%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 14 (6.54%) FPGA Engineer
8 13 (6.07%) Lead
9 12 (5.61%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.21%) Algorithm Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Embedded Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) C++ Software Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.27%) Graduate
12 7 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (29.44%) NumPy
1 63 (29.44%) Pandas
2 53 (24.77%) scikit-learn
3 52 (24.30%) Matplotlib
4 49 (22.90%) Hugging Face
4 49 (22.90%) Streamlit
5 16 (7.48%) PyTorch
6 15 (7.01%) TensorFlow
7 10 (4.67%) HTML
8 9 (4.21%) .NET
9 6 (2.80%) CSS
9 6 (2.80%) OpenCV
9 6 (2.80%) REST
10 5 (2.34%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.34%) Play Framework
11 4 (1.87%) DirectX
11 4 (1.87%) Middleware
11 4 (1.87%) OpenGL
11 4 (1.87%) React
11 4 (1.87%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.81%) FPGA
2 12 (5.61%) PCIe
3 11 (5.14%) VHDL
4 8 (3.74%) 3D Graphics
4 8 (3.74%) NVMe
5 7 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.27%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.27%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (2.80%) Robotics
7 5 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.34%) CUDA
7 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.34%) Life Science
7 5 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.34%) Social Media
8 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.21%) Linux
2 4 (1.87%) Android
2 4 (1.87%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.93%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (0.93%) Unix
3 2 (0.93%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (46.73%) Machine Learning
2 99 (46.26%) AI
3 66 (30.84%) Visualisation
4 62 (28.97%) LLM
5 60 (28.04%) OO
6 56 (26.17%) Software Engineering
7 53 (24.77%) OOP
8 52 (24.30%) Neural Network
8 52 (24.30%) Workflow
9 51 (23.83%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 50 (23.36%) Data Privacy
10 50 (23.36%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (22.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (22.90%) Conversational UI
11 49 (22.90%) Customer Service
11 49 (22.90%) Sentiment Analysis
12 37 (17.29%) Computer Science
13 36 (16.82%) Signal Processing
14 34 (15.89%) Analytics
15 25 (11.68%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 121 (56.54%) Python
2 50 (23.36%) C++
3 31 (14.49%) C
4 21 (9.81%) C#
5 19 (8.88%) SQL
6 12 (5.61%) R
7 10 (4.67%) Java
8 8 (3.74%) Assembly Language
8 8 (3.74%) MATLAB
9 7 (3.27%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.80%) Go
11 5 (2.34%) Scala
12 4 (1.87%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.40%) Rust
14 2 (0.93%) Bash
14 2 (0.93%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.93%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.93%) Julia
14 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (24.30%) Degree
2 49 (22.90%) AWS Certification
2 49 (22.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 25 (11.68%) Master's Degree
4 19 (8.88%) PhD
5 17 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (6.07%) Security Cleared
7 7 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.27%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.27%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.34%) MBA
9 3 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.47%) CEH
10 1 (0.47%) CISM
10 1 (0.47%) CISSP
10 1 (0.47%) GIAC
10 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.34%) QA
4 4 (1.87%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.87%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.40%) CDISC
5 3 (1.40%) GxP
5 3 (1.40%) HL7
6 2 (0.93%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.47%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (9.81%) Firmware
2 12 (5.61%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (3.27%) Docker
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.93%) Kubeflow
1 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) SCCM
2 1 (0.47%) SCOM
2 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 53 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.88%) Google
3 18 (8.41%) IBM
4 12 (5.61%) Altera
5 10 (4.67%) Databricks
6 9 (4.21%) Screaming Frog
6 9 (4.21%) Xilinx
7 5 (2.34%) BT
8 4 (1.87%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.40%) Botify
10 2 (0.93%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.93%) Thales
11 1 (0.47%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.47%) Dell
11 1 (0.47%) Foundry
11 1 (0.47%) HP
11 1 (0.47%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.47%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.47%) VMware