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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 172 93
Rank change year-on-year -142 -79 +92
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 291 533 1,942
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 1.85% 2.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 4.60% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 203 295 548
10th Percentile - £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £64,750 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% - -10.34%

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 15,737 11,591 23,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.05% 40.22% 34.42%
Number of salaries quoted 8,576 5,498 15,195
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,188 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 11 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 11 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 -78 97 £60,000 -3.23% 83
North of England -51 62 £37,500 -48.09% 36
South West -75 42 £60,000 -14.29% 34
East of England -80 36 £37,500 -42.31% 56
Midlands -43 32 £55,000 -8.33% 21
North West -20 30 £37,500 -56.01% 15
West Midlands -23 21 £46,500 -22.50% 7
Yorkshire -44 21 £37,500 -16.67% 10
Scotland -19 14 £39,500 -12.22% 13
North East -38 11 £37,500 -63.86% 11
East Midlands -37 10 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Wales -40 6 £57,500 -7.26% 1
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 (17.18%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.72%) CMS
4 5 (1.72%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (16.84%) Chatbot
2 10 (3.44%) Simulink
3 3 (1.03%) CATIA
4 2 (0.69%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (4.12%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 76 (26.12%) AWS
2 54 (18.56%) Cloud Computing
3 13 (4.47%) Azure
3 13 (4.47%) Google Analytics
4 8 (2.75%) GCP
5 5 (1.72%) SaaS
5 5 (1.72%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.37%) Google Ads
6 4 (1.37%) Prefect
7 3 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.03%) Slack
7 3 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.34%) Firebase
8 1 (0.34%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.09%) Broadband
2 5 (1.72%) Ethernet
2 5 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.37%) Internet
4 3 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.34%) 5G
5 1 (0.34%) Firewall
5 1 (0.34%) IPsec
5 1 (0.34%) MQTT
5 1 (0.34%) RS-422
5 1 (0.34%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.53%) Metadata
2 11 (3.78%) Big Data
3 9 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.41%) Hadoop
4 7 (2.41%) Tableau
5 6 (2.06%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.37%) GIS
7 4 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 69 (23.71%) Visual Studio Code
2 36 (12.37%) Git
3 26 (8.93%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (5.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.69%) JIRA
5 2 (0.69%) PetaLinux
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) MLflow
General
1 73 (25.09%) Finance
2 60 (20.62%) Retail
3 55 (18.90%) Manufacturing
4 43 (14.78%) Social Skills
5 36 (12.37%) Marketing
6 34 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (8.93%) Electronics
8 14 (4.81%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.47%) Automotive
10 12 (4.12%) Games
11 9 (3.09%) Advertising
12 8 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.72%) Aviation
13 5 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.03%) Aeronautics
15 3 (1.03%) Banking
15 3 (1.03%) French Language
15 3 (1.03%) Legal
15 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (21.99%) Software Engineer
2 46 (15.81%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (15.81%) Programmer
2 46 (15.81%) Trainee
2 46 (15.81%) Trainee Programmer
3 44 (15.12%) Senior
4 38 (13.06%) Developer
5 23 (7.90%) Python Developer
5 23 (7.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (7.56%) FPGA Engineer
6 22 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
7 21 (7.22%) Embedded Engineer
8 15 (5.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 13 (4.47%) SEO Specialist
10 12 (4.12%) Lead
11 11 (3.78%) Algorithm Engineer
11 11 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (3.78%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 11 (3.78%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (24.40%) NumPy
1 71 (24.40%) Pandas
2 52 (17.87%) Matplotlib
2 52 (17.87%) scikit-learn
3 50 (17.18%) Streamlit
4 49 (16.84%) Hugging Face
5 16 (5.50%) PyTorch
6 15 (5.15%) HTML
7 14 (4.81%) .NET
7 14 (4.81%) TensorFlow
8 10 (3.44%) CSS
9 8 (2.75%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.41%) OpenCV
11 6 (2.06%) REST
12 5 (1.72%) Play Framework
12 5 (1.72%) SciPy
13 4 (1.37%) Flask
13 4 (1.37%) OpenGL
13 4 (1.37%) React
13 4 (1.37%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.65%) FPGA
2 20 (6.87%) Embedded Systems
3 19 (6.53%) PCIe
3 19 (6.53%) VHDL
4 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.12%) NVMe
7 9 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (2.41%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.41%) Robotics
10 6 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.72%) 3D Graphics
11 5 (1.72%) CUDA
11 5 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.72%) Verilog
12 4 (1.37%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.37%) Cybercrime
12 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.25%) Linux
2 7 (2.41%) Windows
3 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
3 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.37%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.03%) Android
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.71%) Software Engineering
2 99 (34.02%) AI
3 91 (31.27%) Machine Learning
4 64 (21.99%) Visualisation
5 60 (20.62%) Computer Science
6 59 (20.27%) LLM
7 57 (19.59%) OOP
8 56 (19.24%) OO
9 52 (17.87%) Workflow
10 50 (17.18%) Neural Network
10 50 (17.18%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 49 (16.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (16.84%) Conversational UI
11 49 (16.84%) Customer Service
11 49 (16.84%) Data Privacy
11 49 (16.84%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (16.84%) Sentiment Analysis
12 48 (16.49%) Signal Processing
13 38 (13.06%) Analytics
14 33 (11.34%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 156 (53.61%) Python
2 72 (24.74%) C++
3 40 (13.75%) C#
4 38 (13.06%) C
5 21 (7.22%) SQL
6 17 (5.84%) MATLAB
7 12 (4.12%) Assembly Language
8 11 (3.78%) Java
9 8 (2.75%) Embedded C
9 8 (2.75%) Embedded C++
9 8 (2.75%) R
10 7 (2.41%) Go
11 6 (2.06%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.72%) Scala
13 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.03%) Rust
14 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.69%) Julia
16 1 (0.34%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (21.65%) Degree
2 50 (17.18%) AWS Certification
3 49 (16.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 32 (11.00%) Security Cleared
5 28 (9.62%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (6.19%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.47%) PhD
8 12 (4.12%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.72%) MBA
11 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 5 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.72%) QA
3 4 (1.37%) GDPR
3 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.03%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.03%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 31 (10.65%) Firmware
2 24 (8.25%) Docker
3 15 (5.15%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.72%) SCCM
2 5 (1.72%) SCOM
2 5 (1.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (1.03%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.56%) Google
3 19 (6.53%) IBM
4 16 (5.50%) Altera
5 13 (4.47%) Xilinx
6 12 (4.12%) Databricks
7 8 (2.75%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.72%) BT
8 5 (1.72%) Dell
8 5 (1.72%) HP
8 5 (1.72%) McAfee
8 5 (1.72%) VMware
9 3 (1.03%) Botify
9 3 (1.03%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.69%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.34%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.34%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.34%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.34%) Thales