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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 99 195
Rank change year-on-year -45 +96 +6
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 850 1,948 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 2.75% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.59% 8.09% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 615 548 378
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £34,974
25th Percentile £62,000 £46,250 £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 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.62% -10.34% +3.57%

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 12,901 24,071 25,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.09% 33.98% 42.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,032 15,188 11,338
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,057
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,625 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +46 469 £70,000 +20.69% 316
East of England +25 123 £64,500 -0.77% 130
South West +43 68 £67,500 +12.50% 66
Wales +87 63 £69,300 +26.00% 21
North of England -36 60 £80,000 +45.45% 122
North West -77 40 £88,662 +47.77% 69
Midlands -44 39 £60,000 -4.00% 66
Scotland -108 28 £57,500 -11.54% 73
West Midlands -9 20 £60,000 - 43
East Midlands -21 19 £60,000 -4.00% 22
Yorkshire +67 14 £52,500 +5.00% 30
North East +48 6 £103,750 +13.76% 24
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 (2.71%) Jupyter
2 9 (1.06%) Kinematics
3 4 (0.47%) Apache
3 4 (0.47%) GemFire
4 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (2.35%) Simulink
2 14 (1.65%) Mathcad
3 10 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
4 5 (0.59%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
5 3 (0.35%) GNU Octave
5 3 (0.35%) InDesign
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.12%) Ripple
2 1 (0.12%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 112 (13.18%) Power Platform
2 75 (8.82%) Azure
3 70 (8.24%) AWS
4 41 (4.82%) GCP
5 22 (2.59%) SaaS
6 15 (1.76%) Vertex AI
7 13 (1.53%) Amazon SageMaker
8 10 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
8 10 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (1.18%) Google Analytics
9 7 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.24%) Asana
10 2 (0.24%) AWS KMS
10 2 (0.24%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (0.24%) Canva
10 2 (0.24%) Facebook Ads
10 2 (0.24%) Google Ads
10 2 (0.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.59%) RS-485
2 3 (0.35%) MQTT
3 2 (0.24%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.24%) GPRS
3 2 (0.24%) GSM
3 2 (0.24%) RTP
3 2 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.12%) DVB
4 1 (0.12%) Internet
4 1 (0.12%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.12%) Modbus
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.06%) Power BI
2 96 (11.29%) GIS
3 94 (11.06%) Geospatial Data
3 94 (11.06%) Power Query
4 57 (6.71%) Big Data
5 46 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 31 (3.65%) Data Mining
7 13 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.94%) Cloud Spanner
8 8 (0.94%) SQL Server
9 7 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.82%) Tableau
10 5 (0.59%) Redis
11 4 (0.47%) Apache Ignite
11 4 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
11 4 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.47%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.35%) Looker
12 3 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 319 (37.53%) Rational DOORS
2 33 (3.88%) Git
3 22 (2.59%) JUnit
4 20 (2.35%) Eclipse
4 20 (2.35%) IntelliJ
4 20 (2.35%) Jasmine
4 20 (2.35%) Karma Test Runner
4 20 (2.35%) Mockito
4 20 (2.35%) Protractor
5 10 (1.18%) JIRA
5 10 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.59%) Vite
7 4 (0.47%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.47%) webpack
8 3 (0.35%) GitLab
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) CruiseControl
10 1 (0.12%) Subversion
10 1 (0.12%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 388 (45.65%) Electronics
2 111 (13.06%) Finance
2 111 (13.06%) Social Skills
3 93 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (5.18%) Law
6 37 (4.35%) Retail
7 36 (4.24%) Marketing
8 34 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 33 (3.88%) Banking
10 25 (2.94%) Legal
11 15 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.41%) Automotive
12 12 (1.41%) Games
13 11 (1.29%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.82%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 319 (37.53%) Systems Engineer
2 259 (30.47%) Senior
3 176 (20.71%) Principal Engineer
4 172 (20.24%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 147 (17.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 79 (9.29%) Data Scientist
7 66 (7.76%) Lead
7 66 (7.76%) Software Engineer
8 61 (7.18%) Developer
9 34 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 28 (3.29%) Java Developer
11 27 (3.18%) Senior Data Scientist
12 19 (2.24%) Software Developer
13 18 (2.12%) Embedded Engineer
13 18 (2.12%) SaaS Developer
14 17 (2.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 15 (1.76%) Backend Developer
16 14 (1.65%) Mathematical Modeller
16 14 (1.65%) Radar Engineer
17 13 (1.53%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.47%) React
2 35 (4.12%) AngularJS
3 27 (3.18%) TensorFlow
4 26 (3.06%) PyTorch
5 25 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
6 24 (2.82%) scikit-learn
7 22 (2.59%) .NET
7 22 (2.59%) Hibernate
8 20 (2.35%) JPA
9 19 (2.24%) Node.js
10 17 (2.00%) Middleware
11 15 (1.76%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.53%) Keras
12 13 (1.53%) NumPy
12 13 (1.53%) Spring
13 10 (1.18%) ASP.NET
13 10 (1.18%) Vue
14 9 (1.06%) .NET Core
14 9 (1.06%) REST
14 9 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 46 (5.41%) Cyberattack
3 18 (2.12%) Public Cloud
4 17 (2.00%) FPGA
5 16 (1.88%) Robotics
6 12 (1.41%) Credit Risk
7 11 (1.29%) Blog
7 11 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (1.29%) Verilog
8 10 (1.18%) Learning Management System
9 9 (1.06%) Social Media
10 8 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (0.94%) VHDL
10 8 (0.94%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.82%) Client/Server
11 7 (0.82%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (0.82%) IoT
12 6 (0.71%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.59%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.47%) Linux
2 18 (2.12%) Windows
3 15 (1.76%) Unix
4 11 (1.29%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.59%) Android
5 5 (0.59%) Debian
6 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (44.24%) Signal Processing
2 366 (43.06%) Systems Engineering
3 358 (42.12%) Technical Leadership
4 248 (29.18%) Problem-Solving
5 181 (21.29%) Mentoring
6 177 (20.82%) Machine Learning
7 172 (20.24%) Test Planning
8 159 (18.71%) Software Engineering
9 155 (18.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 149 (17.53%) Data Science
11 139 (16.35%) Computer Science
12 129 (15.18%) Mathematics
13 123 (14.47%) Analytics
14 121 (14.24%) Business Intelligence
14 121 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 114 (13.41%) Visualisation
16 109 (12.82%) Agile
17 104 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
18 96 (11.29%) Data Management
19 94 (11.06%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (21.53%) Python
2 166 (19.53%) SQL
3 131 (15.41%) R
4 105 (12.35%) Java
5 82 (9.65%) C++
6 61 (7.18%) JavaScript
7 56 (6.59%) C
8 36 (4.24%) C#
9 32 (3.76%) TypeScript
10 26 (3.06%) MATLAB
11 13 (1.53%) Go
12 12 (1.41%) Embedded C
13 10 (1.18%) Bash
14 9 (1.06%) Fortran
15 3 (0.35%) Rust
15 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.24%) Embedded C++
16 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 361 (42.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 186 (21.88%) Degree
3 72 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 62 (7.29%) DV Cleared
5 59 (6.94%) Master's Degree
6 51 (6.00%) PhD
7 41 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (4.12%) Numerate Degree
9 20 (2.35%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.24%) PMP
12 1 (0.12%) CSSLP
12 1 (0.12%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (42.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 17 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.53%) QA
4 6 (0.71%) GDPR
5 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.35%) NIST
6 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 76 (8.94%) Docker
2 7 (0.82%) Firmware
3 3 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.35%) Terraform
3 2 (0.24%) Ansible
3 2 (0.24%) Grafana
3 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 339 (39.88%) IBM
2 42 (4.94%) Google
3 41 (4.82%) Microsoft
4 17 (2.00%) Databricks
5 15 (1.76%) MathWorks
5 15 (1.76%) OpenAI
6 14 (1.65%) SAP
7 8 (0.94%) Ahrefs
8 7 (0.82%) EMC
9 6 (0.71%) ANSYS
9 6 (0.71%) Oracle
10 5 (0.59%) Adobe
10 5 (0.59%) Facebook
11 4 (0.47%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.47%) Solace
11 4 (0.47%) TIBCO
12 2 (0.24%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.24%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.24%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.24%) Sybase