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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 136 118
Rank change year-on-year -204 -18 +35
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 209 576 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 2.10% 2.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 5.84% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 124 314 470
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,630 £85,000 £86,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -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 15,182 9,870 20,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.34% 35.98% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7,181 5,119 14,239
10th Percentile £27,125 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £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 £65,000 £69,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,239 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% +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 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 18 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 -118 55 £67,250 +7.60% 95
North of England -58 47 £37,500 -47.91% 62
South West -95 31 £40,792 -37.24% 55
Midlands -34 30 £50,000 -16.67% 49
North West -26 28 £37,500 -56.88% 32
East of England -93 26 £42,500 -44.08% 57
West Midlands -4 18 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Scotland -31 13 £37,500 -16.67% 20
Yorkshire -51 13 £37,500 -28.57% 18
East Midlands -48 11 £75,000 +25.00% 28
Wales -26 7 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North East -17 6 £37,500 -37.50% 13
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 (23.44%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.39%) CMS
3 5 (2.39%) IIS
3 5 (2.39%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (23.44%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.91%) Simulink
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.96%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 68 (32.54%) AWS
2 52 (24.88%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.74%) Google Analytics
4 8 (3.83%) Azure
5 7 (3.35%) GCP
6 5 (2.39%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.91%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (1.44%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.44%) Prefect
9 2 (0.96%) Google Docs
9 2 (0.96%) Google Sheets
9 2 (0.96%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.96%) SaaS
9 2 (0.96%) Slack
10 1 (0.48%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.48%) Firebase
10 1 (0.48%) GitHub
10 1 (0.48%) Google App Engine
10 1 (0.48%) PaaS
10 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.83%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (2.87%) Broadband
3 5 (2.39%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.96%) Internet
5 1 (0.48%) IPsec
5 1 (0.48%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.48%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) Metadata
2 10 (4.78%) Big Data
2 10 (4.78%) Tableau
3 7 (3.35%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.87%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.39%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.91%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.91%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.96%) Looker
7 2 (0.96%) Power BI
8 1 (0.48%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.48%) GIS
8 1 (0.48%) Spotfire
8 1 (0.48%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (24.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (11.96%) Rational DOORS
3 13 (6.22%) Git
4 3 (1.44%) GitLab
4 3 (1.44%) JIRA
5 2 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.48%) MLflow
6 1 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 66 (31.58%) Finance
2 60 (28.71%) Retail
3 54 (25.84%) Manufacturing
4 36 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.22%) Electronics
4 36 (17.22%) Social Skills
5 28 (13.40%) Marketing
6 13 (6.22%) Automotive
7 11 (5.26%) Games
8 5 (2.39%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.39%) Aviation
8 5 (2.39%) Banking
8 5 (2.39%) Legal
8 5 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Aeronautics
10 3 (1.44%) French Language
10 3 (1.44%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.44%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (22.01%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (22.01%) Programmer
1 46 (22.01%) Trainee
1 46 (22.01%) Trainee Programmer
2 23 (11.00%) Software Engineer
3 22 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
4 20 (9.57%) Developer
5 19 (9.09%) Senior
6 18 (8.61%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (8.61%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 16 (7.66%) Lead
8 13 (6.22%) FPGA Engineer
9 10 (4.78%) Embedded Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Algorithm Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 7 (3.35%) C++ Software Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Robotics Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) SEO Executive
12 6 (2.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (28.71%) NumPy
1 60 (28.71%) Pandas
2 54 (25.84%) scikit-learn
3 52 (24.88%) Matplotlib
4 49 (23.44%) Hugging Face
4 49 (23.44%) Streamlit
5 16 (7.66%) TensorFlow
6 15 (7.18%) PyTorch
7 9 (4.31%) .NET
8 8 (3.83%) HTML
9 6 (2.87%) CSS
9 6 (2.87%) OpenCV
10 5 (2.39%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.39%) FHIR
10 5 (2.39%) Middleware
10 5 (2.39%) Play Framework
10 5 (2.39%) REST
11 4 (1.91%) DirectX
11 4 (1.91%) OpenGL
11 4 (1.91%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.57%) FPGA
2 11 (5.26%) PCIe
3 10 (4.78%) VHDL
4 8 (3.83%) 3D Graphics
4 8 (3.83%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.35%) Life Science
5 7 (3.35%) NVMe
5 7 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.35%) Robotics
6 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.87%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (2.39%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.39%) CUDA
7 5 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.39%) Omics
7 5 (2.39%) Social Media
8 4 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.91%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.78%) Linux
2 4 (1.91%) Android
2 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.44%) Unix
4 2 (0.96%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (47.85%) AI
2 98 (46.89%) Machine Learning
3 64 (30.62%) Visualisation
4 62 (29.67%) LLM
5 59 (28.23%) OO
6 52 (24.88%) Neural Network
6 52 (24.88%) Software Engineering
6 52 (24.88%) Workflow
7 51 (24.40%) OOP
7 51 (24.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 50 (23.92%) Data Privacy
8 50 (23.92%) Prompt Engineering
9 49 (23.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 49 (23.44%) Conversational UI
9 49 (23.44%) Customer Service
9 49 (23.44%) Sentiment Analysis
10 38 (18.18%) Signal Processing
11 37 (17.70%) Analytics
12 36 (17.22%) Computer Science
13 28 (13.40%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 113 (54.07%) Python
2 48 (22.97%) C++
3 33 (15.79%) C
4 20 (9.57%) C#
5 19 (9.09%) SQL
6 12 (5.74%) R
7 10 (4.78%) Java
8 7 (3.35%) Assembly Language
8 7 (3.35%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.87%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.39%) Go
10 5 (2.39%) Scala
11 4 (1.91%) Rust
11 4 (1.91%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.44%) Bash
13 2 (0.96%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.96%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.96%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.48%) Julia
14 1 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 51 (24.40%) Degree
2 49 (23.44%) AWS Certification
2 49 (23.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (11.48%) Master's Degree
4 20 (9.57%) PhD
5 18 (8.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (5.74%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.83%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.35%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.39%) MBA
11 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.48%) CEH
12 1 (0.48%) CISM
12 1 (0.48%) CISSP
12 1 (0.48%) GIAC
12 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.35%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.39%) CDISC
3 5 (2.39%) GxP
3 5 (2.39%) HL7
4 4 (1.91%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.91%) ISO 26262
4 4 (1.91%) QA
5 2 (0.96%) NIST
6 1 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.48%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.48%) GDPR
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (9.57%) Firmware
2 11 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (3.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.96%) Kubeflow
1 2 (0.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 53 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.05%) Google
3 18 (8.61%) IBM
4 11 (5.26%) Altera
5 10 (4.78%) Databricks
6 9 (4.31%) Screaming Frog
7 8 (3.83%) Xilinx
8 5 (2.39%) BT
9 4 (1.91%) Ahrefs
10 3 (1.44%) Botify
11 2 (0.96%) Hotjar
11 2 (0.96%) Thales
12 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.48%) Foundry
12 1 (0.48%) Huawei
12 1 (0.48%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.48%) SAP
12 1 (0.48%) TIBCO