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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 235 135
Rank change year-on-year -90 -100 +150
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 373 383 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.46% 1.10% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.99% 2.82% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 262 169 307
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,313 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,400 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +9.52% -13.10%

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 18,734 13,590 17,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.31% 38.98% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,148 6,380 8,980
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -50 130 £67,500 +8.87% 156
East of England +21 102 £63,750 +15.91% 110
North of England -26 49 £56,000 +17.89% 75
South West -59 44 £58,000 +17.77% 86
Midlands -38 26 £67,500 +17.39% 56
West Midlands -13 21 £67,500 +17.39% 30
Yorkshire -22 21 £32,500 -7.14% 20
Scotland -62 18 £39,500 -31.30% 72
North West -24 15 £60,000 +20.00% 43
North East -50 13 £60,000 -47.83% 15
East Midlands -24 4 £62,500 +131.48% 26
Wales -75 2 £39,500 -41.91% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 8
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 9 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.61%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
5 1 (0.27%) Kinematics
5 1 (0.27%) SAS
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (3.22%) Simulink
2 4 (1.07%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.80%) CATIA
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.27%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (2.68%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.33%) AWS
2 24 (6.43%) Azure
3 13 (3.49%) Google Ads
3 13 (3.49%) Google Analytics
4 10 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (2.41%) GCP
5 9 (2.41%) GitHub
6 8 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.61%) SaaS
8 5 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.07%) Prefect
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (0.80%) Datadog
10 3 (0.80%) dbt
10 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.80%) Serverless
10 3 (0.80%) Slack
11 2 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.41%) Broadband
2 4 (1.07%) Internet
2 4 (1.07%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (1.07%) Wireless
3 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.54%) 5G
4 2 (0.54%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.54%) Firewall
5 1 (0.27%) IPsec
5 1 (0.27%) LTE
5 1 (0.27%) MQTT
5 1 (0.27%) RS-422
5 1 (0.27%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.56%) Metadata
2 15 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.88%) Big Data
4 7 (1.88%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.61%) GIS
6 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.07%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.07%) MySQL
7 4 (1.07%) Redis
8 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.54%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.54%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.54%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (12.87%) Git
2 24 (6.43%) Visual Studio Code
3 20 (5.36%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (4.29%) GitLab
5 6 (1.61%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.07%) JIRA
7 3 (0.80%) CMake
7 3 (0.80%) PetaLinux
7 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.54%) Plastic SCM
8 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 53 (14.21%) Finance
2 47 (12.60%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.19%) Marketing
4 29 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.24%) Electronics
6 23 (6.17%) Aerospace
6 23 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.29%) Advertising
8 13 (3.49%) Games
9 11 (2.95%) Banking
10 10 (2.68%) Law
11 8 (2.14%) Automotive
11 8 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.61%) Retail
13 4 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.54%) Legal
15 2 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (28.95%) Software Engineer
2 57 (15.28%) Senior
3 56 (15.01%) Developer
4 50 (13.40%) Lead
5 37 (9.92%) Embedded Engineer
6 27 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (6.97%) Python Developer
8 20 (5.36%) FPGA Engineer
8 20 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
9 19 (5.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 19 (5.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 16 (4.29%) SEO Specialist
11 13 (3.49%) C++ Software Engineer
11 13 (3.49%) Design Engineer
12 12 (3.22%) Data Scientist
13 11 (2.95%) FPGA Design Engineer
14 10 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (2.68%) Python Engineer
14 10 (2.68%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 9 (2.41%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.17%) NumPy
1 23 (6.17%) Pandas
1 23 (6.17%) PyTorch
2 20 (5.36%) HTML
3 18 (4.83%) .NET
4 16 (4.29%) CSS
5 15 (4.02%) TensorFlow
6 13 (3.49%) React
7 10 (2.68%) REST
7 10 (2.68%) Terraform
7 10 (2.68%) Yocto
8 9 (2.41%) Google JAX
8 9 (2.41%) JAX
9 8 (2.14%) Hugging Face
10 7 (1.88%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.88%) Flask
10 7 (1.88%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.61%) Node.js
12 5 (1.34%) jQuery
12 5 (1.34%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.38%) Embedded Systems
2 30 (8.04%) Data Structures
3 28 (7.51%) FPGA
4 24 (6.43%) Robotics
5 21 (5.63%) VHDL
6 18 (4.83%) Product Ownership
7 17 (4.56%) PCIe
8 11 (2.95%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.68%) NVMe
9 10 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
9 10 (2.68%) Verilog
10 8 (2.14%) SCADA
10 8 (2.14%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.61%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.61%) IoT
13 5 (1.34%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.34%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.24%) Linux
2 14 (3.75%) Windows
3 10 (2.68%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.07%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (40.48%) Software Engineering
2 86 (23.06%) AI
3 77 (20.64%) Computer Science
4 67 (17.96%) Machine Learning
5 47 (12.60%) Agile
6 46 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (12.33%) Signal Processing
7 45 (12.06%) CI/CD
8 43 (11.53%) Mentoring
9 42 (11.26%) Deep Learning
9 42 (11.26%) Validation
10 38 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (10.19%) Data Science
11 33 (8.85%) Analytics
11 33 (8.85%) Test Automation
12 32 (8.58%) Decision-Making
13 31 (8.31%) Mathematics
13 31 (8.31%) Systems Engineering
14 28 (7.51%) SEO
15 27 (7.24%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 167 (44.77%) Python
2 99 (26.54%) C++
3 48 (12.87%) C
4 45 (12.06%) C#
5 23 (6.17%) MATLAB
6 22 (5.90%) Java
7 17 (4.56%) SQL
8 16 (4.29%) Embedded C++
9 15 (4.02%) Go
10 13 (3.49%) Embedded C
10 13 (3.49%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.22%) JavaScript
11 12 (3.22%) Rust
12 10 (2.68%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.54%) VBA
14 1 (0.27%) Fortran
14 1 (0.27%) Julia
14 1 (0.27%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 90 (24.13%) Degree
2 60 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.58%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.43%) Master's Degree
5 23 (6.17%) DV Cleared
6 20 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.29%) PhD
9 10 (2.68%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.27%) HND
13 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.22%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.95%) GDPR
3 10 (2.68%) QA
4 9 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 6 (1.61%) Automotive SPICE
5 6 (1.61%) ISO 26262
5 6 (1.61%) MISRA
5 6 (1.61%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.27%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (11.80%) Docker
2 43 (11.53%) Firmware
3 22 (5.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.34%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.34%) Ansible
2 5 (1.34%) SCCM
2 5 (1.34%) SCOM
2 5 (1.34%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 3 (0.80%) Argo
3 3 (0.80%) Grafana
3 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
3 3 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 23 (6.17%) Google
2 14 (3.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.95%) IBM
3 11 (2.95%) Xilinx
4 10 (2.68%) Altera
5 7 (1.88%) Databricks
6 6 (1.61%) Screaming Frog
7 5 (1.34%) Dell
7 5 (1.34%) HP
7 5 (1.34%) McAfee
7 5 (1.34%) VMware
8 4 (1.07%) TikTok
9 3 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.80%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.80%) Splunk
10 2 (0.54%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.27%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.27%) Intel
11 1 (0.27%) Thales