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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 258 188
Rank change year-on-year -73 -70 +106
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 402 333 697
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.97% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 2.50% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 266 145 267
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,600 £70,625
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.90%

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 20,910 13,326 15,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.26% 38.90% 29.27%
Number of salaries quoted 13,245 6,151 7,075
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,900 £32,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% -4.00%

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 29 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 29 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 -18 149 £70,000 +12.90% 150
East of England +18 120 £65,000 +18.18% 128
North of England -49 46 £52,000 +41.50% 85
South West -73 41 £61,250 +24.37% 83
Midlands -43 26 £67,500 +8.00% 62
Yorkshire -18 22 £32,500 -7.14% 20
West Midlands -37 17 £67,500 +22.73% 39
Scotland -53 17 £39,500 -31.30% 68
North East -56 13 £60,000 -47.83% 10
North West -29 11 £60,000 +33.33% 55
East Midlands -38 9 £81,250 +25.00% 23
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 20
Wales -76 1 £39,500 -44.05% 10
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 11 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.25%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (5.72%) Simulink
2 4 (1.00%) Mathematica
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.25%) CATIA
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (9.45%) AWS
2 26 (6.47%) Azure
3 15 (3.73%) Google Ads
3 15 (3.73%) Google Analytics
4 10 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (2.49%) GitHub
5 9 (2.24%) GCP
6 6 (1.49%) SaaS
7 5 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.75%) Datadog
9 3 (0.75%) dbt
9 3 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.75%) Serverless
9 3 (0.75%) Slack
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.23%) Wireless
2 7 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.00%) 5G
3 4 (1.00%) Broadband
3 4 (1.00%) LTE
4 3 (0.75%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.75%) Internet
4 3 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.50%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) DHCP
6 1 (0.25%) DNS
6 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.25%) MQTT
6 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.25%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.48%) Metadata
2 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.74%) Big Data
5 6 (1.49%) GIS
6 5 (1.24%) MySQL
6 5 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.00%) Redis
8 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.50%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (11.19%) Git
2 20 (4.98%) Visual Studio Code
3 18 (4.48%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (3.98%) GitLab
5 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.24%) PetaLinux
7 4 (1.00%) MLflow
8 3 (0.75%) CMake
8 3 (0.75%) JIRA
8 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.50%) Plastic SCM
9 2 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.25%) Subversion
General
1 61 (15.17%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.19%) Finance
3 40 (9.95%) Marketing
4 33 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.46%) Aerospace
6 29 (7.21%) Electronics
7 22 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (4.73%) Advertising
9 11 (2.74%) Banking
10 10 (2.49%) Law
11 8 (1.99%) Games
11 8 (1.99%) Military
12 7 (1.74%) Automotive
12 7 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.49%) Aviation
13 6 (1.49%) Retail
14 4 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.00%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 106 (26.37%) Software Engineer
2 68 (16.92%) Senior
3 56 (13.93%) Lead
4 44 (10.95%) Developer
5 41 (10.20%) Embedded Engineer
6 29 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (6.47%) FPGA Engineer
8 21 (5.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 21 (5.22%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 19 (4.73%) Systems Engineer
10 18 (4.48%) SEO Specialist
11 16 (3.98%) Data Scientist
11 16 (3.98%) Python Developer
12 14 (3.48%) C++ Software Engineer
13 13 (3.23%) Design Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) FPGA Design Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (2.99%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 11 (2.74%) Architect
16 10 (2.49%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.22%) PyTorch
2 24 (5.97%) HTML
3 23 (5.72%) CSS
4 20 (4.98%) .NET
5 17 (4.23%) TensorFlow
6 15 (3.73%) React
7 14 (3.48%) Yocto
8 13 (3.23%) NumPy
8 13 (3.23%) Pandas
9 10 (2.49%) Terraform
10 8 (1.99%) Google JAX
10 8 (1.99%) JAX
10 8 (1.99%) STL
11 7 (1.74%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.74%) Flask
11 7 (1.74%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.49%) Node.js
13 5 (1.24%) Kafka
13 5 (1.24%) OpenCV
13 5 (1.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.19%) Embedded Systems
2 44 (10.95%) FPGA
3 35 (8.71%) Robotics
4 34 (8.46%) Data Structures
5 24 (5.97%) VHDL
6 21 (5.22%) PCIe
7 16 (3.98%) Product Ownership
8 14 (3.48%) Verilog
9 10 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
10 9 (2.24%) ASIC
10 9 (2.24%) Driving Licence
10 9 (2.24%) NVMe
11 8 (1.99%) Device Driver
11 8 (1.99%) IoT
11 8 (1.99%) SCADA
12 7 (1.74%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.49%) Synthetic Data
14 5 (1.24%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.24%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.96%) Linux
2 18 (4.48%) Embedded Linux
3 15 (3.73%) Windows
4 5 (1.24%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) CentOS
7 1 (0.25%) Debian
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.25%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (38.06%) Software Engineering
2 103 (25.62%) AI
3 84 (20.90%) Computer Science
4 78 (19.40%) Machine Learning
5 56 (13.93%) Agile
6 55 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (13.18%) Signal Processing
8 49 (12.19%) CI/CD
9 48 (11.94%) Mathematics
9 48 (11.94%) Mentoring
10 47 (11.69%) Data Science
11 42 (10.45%) Validation
12 39 (9.70%) Deep Learning
13 38 (9.45%) Analytics
13 38 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (8.71%) Decision-Making
15 30 (7.46%) SEO
15 30 (7.46%) Systems Engineering
15 30 (7.46%) Test Automation
16 28 (6.97%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 176 (43.78%) Python
2 116 (28.86%) C++
3 59 (14.68%) C
4 48 (11.94%) C#
5 46 (11.44%) MATLAB
6 24 (5.97%) Java
7 22 (5.47%) Embedded C++
8 19 (4.73%) Embedded C
8 19 (4.73%) SQL
9 14 (3.48%) JavaScript
9 14 (3.48%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.99%) Go
10 12 (2.99%) Rust
11 9 (2.24%) Assembly Language
12 5 (1.24%) SystemVerilog
13 2 (0.50%) Fortran
13 2 (0.50%) VBA
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 107 (26.62%) Degree
2 78 (19.40%) Security Cleared
3 43 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 33 (8.21%) Master's Degree
5 24 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.72%) DV Cleared
7 21 (5.22%) PhD
8 18 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.74%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.23%) GDPR
2 12 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 8 (1.99%) QA
4 6 (1.49%) Automotive SPICE
4 6 (1.49%) ISO 26262
4 6 (1.49%) MISRA
4 6 (1.49%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (10.20%) Docker
2 40 (9.95%) Firmware
3 21 (5.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.24%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) Ceph
6 1 (0.25%) Lustre
6 1 (0.25%) NFS
6 1 (0.25%) Samba
6 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.24%) Ansible
3 4 (1.00%) SCCM
3 4 (1.00%) SCOM
3 4 (1.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (0.75%) Argo
4 3 (0.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 24 (5.97%) Google
2 12 (2.99%) Xilinx
3 11 (2.74%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.49%) Altera
5 9 (2.24%) IBM
6 6 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.49%) Thales
7 5 (1.24%) Databricks
7 5 (1.24%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (1.00%) Dell
8 4 (1.00%) HP
8 4 (1.00%) Intel
8 4 (1.00%) McAfee
8 4 (1.00%) TikTok
8 4 (1.00%) VMware
9 3 (0.75%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.75%) Rockwell
9 3 (0.75%) Splunk
10 2 (0.50%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.25%) Microsemi