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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 218 111
Rank change year-on-year -99 -107 +66
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 363 477 1,661
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 1.41% 2.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.21% 3.62% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 264 203 526
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 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,756 £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 16,432 13,174 23,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.01% 38.99% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10,864 6,008 14,307
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,730 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,577 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.87% +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 13 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 13 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 -41 126 £70,000 +12.90% 59
East of England -5 79 £65,000 +18.18% 47
North of England -9 67 £37,500 -49.66% 46
South West -91 43 £55,000 +10.00% 45
Midlands -23 33 £37,500 -34.78% 19
North West -22 29 £37,500 -56.01% 20
West Midlands -9 26 £37,500 -37.50% 6
Yorkshire -22 21 £37,500 -46.43% 14
North East -37 17 £52,000 -54.78% 14
Scotland -61 11 £38,500 -33.04% 6
East Midlands -34 6 £57,500 +112.96% 13
Wales -60 2 £39,500 -39.23%
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 4
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 11 (3.03%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.14%) AWS
2 56 (15.43%) Cloud Computing
3 21 (5.79%) Azure
4 18 (4.96%) Google Analytics
5 10 (2.75%) Google Ads
6 9 (2.48%) GCP
7 7 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (1.93%) SaaS
8 6 (1.65%) GitHub
9 5 (1.38%) Slack
9 5 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Prefect
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.55%) Serverless
12 1 (0.28%) IaaS
12 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 23 (6.34%) 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 17 (4.68%) 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 77 (21.21%) Finance
2 60 (16.53%) Retail
3 55 (15.15%) Manufacturing
4 50 (13.77%) Social Skills
5 37 (10.19%) Marketing
6 36 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (7.16%) Electronics
8 17 (4.68%) Automotive
9 16 (4.41%) Advertising
10 14 (3.86%) Aerospace
11 11 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.75%) Games
13 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Banking
14 3 (0.83%) French Language
14 3 (0.83%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.83%) Legal
14 3 (0.83%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.83%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (23.14%) Software Engineer
2 57 (15.70%) Developer
3 50 (13.77%) 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 37 (10.19%) Lead
6 36 (9.92%) Embedded Engineer
7 27 (7.44%) Python Developer
7 27 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (6.61%) FPGA Engineer
9 18 (4.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 18 (4.96%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 17 (4.68%) SEO Specialist
11 13 (3.58%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (3.03%) Graduate
13 10 (2.75%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (2.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) Design Engineer
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%) HTML
5 21 (5.79%) PyTorch
6 18 (4.96%) TensorFlow
7 17 (4.68%) .NET
7 17 (4.68%) CSS
8 10 (2.75%) React
8 10 (2.75%) REST
9 8 (2.20%) Flask
9 8 (2.20%) OpenCV
10 7 (1.93%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.93%) Yocto
11 6 (1.65%) Google JAX
11 6 (1.65%) JAX
11 6 (1.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.92%) Embedded Systems
2 33 (9.09%) FPGA
3 21 (5.79%) PCIe
3 21 (5.79%) VHDL
4 18 (4.96%) Data Structures
5 17 (4.68%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.41%) Robotics
7 11 (3.03%) Driving Licence
7 11 (3.03%) NVMe
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
1 125 (34.44%) Software Engineering
2 111 (30.58%) AI
3 95 (26.17%) Machine Learning
4 72 (19.83%) Computer Science
5 65 (17.91%) OOP
6 59 (16.25%) Visualisation
7 58 (15.98%) OO
8 56 (15.43%) LLM
9 52 (14.33%) Workflow
10 51 (14.05%) Signal Processing
11 50 (13.77%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 49 (13.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 49 (13.50%) Conversational UI
12 49 (13.50%) Customer Service
12 49 (13.50%) Data Privacy
12 49 (13.50%) Neural Network
12 49 (13.50%) Prompt Engineering
12 49 (13.50%) Sentiment Analysis
13 47 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (11.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 188 (51.79%) Python
2 89 (24.52%) C++
3 53 (14.60%) C
4 47 (12.95%) C#
5 22 (6.06%) MATLAB
6 18 (4.96%) SQL
7 15 (4.13%) Java
8 13 (3.58%) Embedded C
8 13 (3.58%) Embedded C++
9 12 (3.31%) JavaScript
10 11 (3.03%) Assembly Language
11 10 (2.75%) Go
12 9 (2.48%) Rust
12 9 (2.48%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.55%) Julia
13 2 (0.55%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 78 (21.49%) 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%) PhD
10 11 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.28%) HND
13 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 9 (2.48%) 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 29 (7.99%) Google
3 15 (4.13%) Altera
4 12 (3.31%) Xilinx
5 11 (3.03%) 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