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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 210 111
Rank change year-on-year -98 -99 +74
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 363 478 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.46% 2.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 3.69% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 261 205 541
10th Percentile - £37,424 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,600 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,011 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%

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 16,178 12,946 23,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.95% 39.48% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10,718 5,852 14,778
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.06%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -42 127 £70,000 +12.90% 67
East of England -6 77 £65,000 +18.18% 51
North of England -25 67 £37,500 -53.13% 56
South West -94 44 £55,000 +10.00% 42
Midlands -14 33 £37,500 -37.50% 23
North West -11 30 £37,500 -56.01% 24
West Midlands -10 26 £37,500 -37.50% 9
Yorkshire -13 21 £37,500 -47.18% 16
North East -34 16 £52,000 -54.78% 18
Scotland -63 11 £38,500 -33.04% 11
East Midlands -28 6 £57,500 +32.18% 14
Wales -62 2 £39,500 -41.91% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 9
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 51 (14.05%) Jupyter
2 7 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.10%) CMS
5 2 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (13.50%) Chatbot
2 13 (3.58%) Simulink
3 3 (0.83%) CATIA
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.55%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (3.31%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 83 (22.87%) AWS
2 56 (15.43%) Cloud Computing
3 21 (5.79%) Azure
4 17 (4.68%) Google Analytics
5 9 (2.48%) GCP
5 9 (2.48%) Google Ads
6 7 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (1.93%) SaaS
7 6 (1.65%) GitHub
8 5 (1.38%) Slack
8 5 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.10%) Prefect
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.55%) Serverless
11 1 (0.28%) IaaS
11 1 (0.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.03%) Broadband
2 6 (1.65%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.38%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.10%) Internet
5 3 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.83%) Wireless
6 2 (0.55%) Firewall
7 1 (0.28%) 5G
7 1 (0.28%) IPsec
7 1 (0.28%) MQTT
7 1 (0.28%) RS-422
7 1 (0.28%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.06%) Metadata
2 16 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.93%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.65%) Big Data
4 6 (1.65%) GIS
5 4 (1.10%) MySQL
5 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.10%) Redis
6 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.55%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.28%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 71 (19.56%) Visual Studio Code
2 46 (12.67%) Git
3 19 (5.23%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (4.41%) GitLab
5 4 (1.10%) JIRA
6 3 (0.83%) PetaLinux
7 2 (0.55%) MLflow
7 2 (0.55%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (20.94%) Finance
2 60 (16.53%) Retail
3 55 (15.15%) Manufacturing
4 50 (13.77%) Social Skills
5 36 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.92%) Marketing
6 27 (7.44%) Electronics
7 18 (4.96%) Automotive
8 16 (4.41%) Advertising
9 15 (4.13%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.75%) Games
12 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Banking
13 3 (0.83%) French Language
13 3 (0.83%) Italian Language
13 3 (0.83%) Legal
13 3 (0.83%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 85 (23.42%) Software Engineer
2 57 (15.70%) Developer
3 47 (12.95%) Senior
4 46 (12.67%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (12.67%) Programmer
4 46 (12.67%) Trainee
4 46 (12.67%) Trainee Programmer
5 36 (9.92%) Lead
6 35 (9.64%) Embedded Engineer
7 27 (7.44%) Python Developer
7 27 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (6.89%) FPGA Engineer
9 18 (4.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 17 (4.68%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 16 (4.41%) SEO Specialist
12 14 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Graduate
13 10 (2.75%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (19.01%) NumPy
1 69 (19.01%) Pandas
2 52 (14.33%) scikit-learn
3 50 (13.77%) Matplotlib
3 50 (13.77%) Streamlit
4 49 (13.50%) Hugging Face
5 21 (5.79%) PyTorch
6 20 (5.51%) HTML
7 18 (4.96%) TensorFlow
8 16 (4.41%) .NET
8 16 (4.41%) CSS
9 10 (2.75%) React
9 10 (2.75%) REST
10 8 (2.20%) Flask
10 8 (2.20%) OpenCV
11 7 (1.93%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.93%) Yocto
12 6 (1.65%) Google JAX
12 6 (1.65%) JAX
12 6 (1.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.64%) Embedded Systems
2 34 (9.37%) FPGA
3 22 (6.06%) PCIe
3 22 (6.06%) VHDL
4 17 (4.68%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.41%) Robotics
6 12 (3.31%) NVMe
7 11 (3.03%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (2.48%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.20%) Verilog
11 7 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.93%) IoT
11 7 (1.93%) SCADA
12 6 (1.65%) Cloud Native
12 6 (1.65%) Device Driver
12 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.38%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.44%) Linux
2 9 (2.48%) Windows
3 7 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (1.65%) Robot Operating System
5 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.10%) Android
6 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (34.71%) Software Engineering
2 109 (30.03%) AI
3 94 (25.90%) Machine Learning
4 70 (19.28%) Computer Science
5 64 (17.63%) OOP
6 59 (16.25%) Visualisation
7 58 (15.98%) OO
8 56 (15.43%) LLM
9 52 (14.33%) Signal Processing
9 52 (14.33%) Workflow
10 50 (13.77%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 49 (13.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (13.50%) Conversational UI
11 49 (13.50%) Customer Service
11 49 (13.50%) Data Privacy
11 49 (13.50%) Neural Network
11 49 (13.50%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (13.50%) Sentiment Analysis
12 46 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (10.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 185 (50.96%) Python
2 92 (25.34%) C++
3 54 (14.88%) C
4 46 (12.67%) C#
5 22 (6.06%) MATLAB
6 18 (4.96%) SQL
7 14 (3.86%) Java
8 13 (3.58%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.58%) Embedded C++
9 12 (3.31%) Assembly Language
9 12 (3.31%) JavaScript
10 10 (2.75%) Go
11 9 (2.48%) Rust
11 9 (2.48%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.55%) Julia
12 2 (0.55%) VBA
13 1 (0.28%) Bash
13 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 77 (21.21%) Degree
2 51 (14.05%) AWS Certification
3 49 (13.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 41 (11.29%) Security Cleared
5 29 (7.99%) Master's Degree
6 20 (5.51%) SC Cleared
7 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.58%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (3.31%) PhD
10 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.28%) HND
12 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 8 (2.20%) GDPR
3 7 (1.93%) QA
4 6 (1.65%) Automotive SPICE
4 6 (1.65%) ISO 26262
4 6 (1.65%) MISRA
4 6 (1.65%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 45 (12.40%) Firmware
2 35 (9.64%) Docker
3 22 (6.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.38%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.38%) Kubeflow
2 5 (1.38%) SCCM
2 5 (1.38%) SCOM
2 5 (1.38%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (1.10%) Terraform
4 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 59 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.71%) Google
3 16 (4.41%) Altera
4 13 (3.58%) Xilinx
5 12 (3.31%) IBM
6 9 (2.48%) Databricks
7 7 (1.93%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.38%) Dell
8 5 (1.38%) HP
8 5 (1.38%) McAfee
8 5 (1.38%) VMware
9 4 (1.10%) TikTok
10 3 (0.83%) Botify
10 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.83%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.28%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.28%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.28%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.28%) Thales