Algorithms Jobs 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 109 200
Rank change year-on-year -29 +91 -30
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 935 1,802 955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.19% 2.31% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.61% 7.35% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 573 544 347
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £62,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £89,852
UK median annual salary £70,600 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.96% -10.71% -5.40%

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 14,135 24,517 22,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.08% 31.49% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6,451 14,874 10,851
10th Percentile £27,375 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £64,029
% change year-on-year +5.45% -14.10% +2.45%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Algorithms in the UK excluding London

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 +49 546 £70,600 +17.67% 344
Scotland -61 92 £57,500 -11.54% 124
South West +53 80 £50,000 -8.26% 134
Wales +92 78 £70,600 +28.36% 35
East of England -13 65 £55,000 -15.38% 217
North of England -46 49 £82,626 +50.23% 215
North West -87 38 £85,253 +42.09% 128
Midlands -46 25 £60,000 - 131
West Midlands -8 14 £60,000 - 71
East Midlands -25 11 £43,500 -30.40% 55
Yorkshire +38 8 £70,996 +41.99% 64
North East +46 3 £115,000 +26.10% 23
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.46%) Jupyter
2 16 (1.71%) Kinematics
3 13 (1.39%) Apache
4 11 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.86%) Camunda
5 8 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 4 (0.43%) GemFire
7 4 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.32%) Kentico
8 3 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (2.14%) Simulink
2 14 (1.50%) Mathcad
3 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
4 3 (0.32%) InDesign
4 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.21%) GNU Octave
5 2 (0.21%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 91 (9.73%) AWS
2 60 (6.42%) Azure
3 41 (4.39%) GCP
4 30 (3.21%) Vertex AI
5 20 (2.14%) Google Analytics
6 14 (1.50%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.28%) Amazon S3
7 12 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
8 11 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
8 11 (1.18%) SaaS
9 9 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (0.75%) npm
10 7 (0.75%) Yarn
11 5 (0.53%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.53%) BlazeMeter
11 5 (0.53%) Serverless
12 4 (0.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) Internet
1 4 (0.43%) MQTT
1 4 (0.43%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (0.21%) Bluetooth
2 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.21%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (0.21%) Modbus
2 2 (0.21%) RTP
2 2 (0.21%) WAN
3 1 (0.11%) DVB
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.42%) Big Data
2 45 (4.81%) NoSQL
3 42 (4.49%) Data Mining
4 18 (1.93%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.50%) Power BI
7 12 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
7 12 (1.28%) RDBMS
8 9 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (0.86%) Cloud Spanner
9 8 (0.86%) SQL Server
10 7 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (0.64%) Looker
12 5 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.53%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (0.53%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (0.53%) MySQL
12 5 (0.53%) Parquet
12 5 (0.53%) Redis
13 4 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 409 (43.74%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (3.10%) Git
3 25 (2.67%) JUnit
4 13 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.18%) JIRA
6 10 (1.07%) IntelliJ
6 10 (1.07%) Jasmine
6 10 (1.07%) Karma Test Runner
6 10 (1.07%) Protractor
7 9 (0.96%) Cypress.io
7 9 (0.96%) Eclipse
7 9 (0.96%) Mockito
8 8 (0.86%) webpack
9 7 (0.75%) GitLab
9 7 (0.75%) Vite
10 6 (0.64%) Jenkins
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Selenium
12 1 (0.11%) CruiseControl
12 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 518 (55.40%) Electronics
2 175 (18.72%) Finance
3 145 (15.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 141 (15.08%) Law
5 117 (12.51%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (11.55%) Social Skills
7 81 (8.66%) Marketing
8 66 (7.06%) Banking
9 53 (5.67%) Retail
10 28 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 19 (2.03%) Legal
12 15 (1.60%) Automotive
12 15 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (1.18%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.75%) Games
15 7 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.64%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.43%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 410 (43.85%) Systems Engineer
2 292 (31.23%) Senior
3 228 (24.39%) Principal Engineer
4 226 (24.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 183 (19.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 146 (15.61%) Software Engineer
7 91 (9.73%) Lead
8 62 (6.63%) Data Scientist
9 48 (5.13%) Java Engineer
10 44 (4.71%) Java Software Engineer
11 39 (4.17%) Developer
11 39 (4.17%) Radar Engineer
12 32 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 27 (2.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (2.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 26 (2.78%) Senior Data Scientist
15 18 (1.93%) Python Engineer
16 17 (1.82%) Embedded Engineer
16 17 (1.82%) Python Software Engineer
16 17 (1.82%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (6.63%) React
2 56 (5.99%) Spring
3 46 (4.92%) Spring Boot
4 30 (3.21%) AngularJS
5 26 (2.78%) Kafka
6 25 (2.67%) CSS
6 25 (2.67%) scikit-learn
7 24 (2.57%) Middleware
7 24 (2.57%) TensorFlow
8 23 (2.46%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.35%) HTML
10 19 (2.03%) .NET
11 18 (1.93%) REST
12 17 (1.82%) RESTful
13 16 (1.71%) Hibernate
14 15 (1.60%) Node.js
14 15 (1.60%) NumPy
15 14 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
16 13 (1.39%) JPA
17 12 (1.28%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.92%) Cyberattack
2 44 (4.71%) Data Structures
3 26 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.46%) Robotics
5 16 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.39%) Blog
7 11 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.07%) FPGA
8 10 (1.07%) Social Media
9 8 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (0.86%) VHDL
10 7 (0.75%) Fixed Income
11 6 (0.64%) IoT
12 5 (0.53%) CUDA
12 5 (0.53%) Verilog
13 4 (0.43%) 3D Graphics
13 4 (0.43%) Derivative
14 3 (0.32%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.24%) Linux
2 17 (1.82%) Windows
3 12 (1.28%) Unix
4 11 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.43%) Android
6 3 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (53.80%) Signal Processing
2 498 (53.26%) Systems Engineering
3 489 (52.30%) Technical Leadership
4 230 (24.60%) Software Engineering
5 226 (24.17%) Test Planning
6 207 (22.14%) Machine Learning
7 199 (21.28%) Artificial Intelligence
8 196 (20.96%) Visualisation
9 174 (18.61%) Agile
10 173 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
11 156 (16.68%) Mentoring
12 141 (15.08%) Data Science
13 125 (13.37%) Analytics
14 124 (13.26%) Computer Science
15 117 (12.51%) Mathematics
16 105 (11.23%) CI/CD
17 99 (10.59%) SDLC
18 97 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 92 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 87 (9.30%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 173 (18.50%) Python
2 158 (16.90%) Java
3 100 (10.70%) R
4 78 (8.34%) C++
5 73 (7.81%) JavaScript
6 66 (7.06%) SQL
7 55 (5.88%) C
8 47 (5.03%) C#
9 35 (3.74%) TypeScript
10 26 (2.78%) MATLAB
11 12 (1.28%) Embedded C
12 9 (0.96%) Bash
13 7 (0.75%) Fortran
14 4 (0.43%) Go
14 4 (0.43%) Scala
15 3 (0.32%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.32%) Rust
15 3 (0.32%) VC++
16 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 493 (52.73%) BPSS Clearance
2 138 (14.76%) Degree
3 68 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 55 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 37 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 37 (3.96%) PhD
6 36 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 33 (3.53%) Numerate Degree
8 13 (1.39%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 493 (52.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 11 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.64%) QA
4 5 (0.53%) GDPR
5 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.21%) JTAG
7 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.11%) GRC
System Software
1 62 (6.63%) Docker
2 7 (0.75%) Firmware
3 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.03%) Terraform
3 6 (0.64%) Ansible
4 4 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 418 (44.71%) IBM
2 74 (7.91%) Google
3 60 (6.42%) Microsoft
4 31 (3.32%) OpenAI
5 23 (2.46%) Oracle
6 22 (2.35%) Databricks
7 18 (1.93%) Ahrefs
8 15 (1.60%) MathWorks
9 13 (1.39%) Screaming Frog
10 12 (1.28%) Splunk
11 11 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.18%) SAP
12 5 (0.53%) Facebook
12 5 (0.53%) NVIDIA
13 4 (0.43%) Solace
13 4 (0.43%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.32%) Adobe
14 3 (0.32%) Sybase
15 2 (0.21%) ForgeRock
15 2 (0.21%) Veritas