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 25 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 206 92
Rank change year-on-year -107 -114 +97
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 300 427 1,948
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.50% 2.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 3.60% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 215 219 549
10th Percentile - £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,600 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -13.33%

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 16,139 11,869 23,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.06% 41.67% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,006 5,046 15,198
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -43 108 £60,000 -3.23% 55
North of England -24 63 £37,500 -54.61% 40
East of England -27 42 £43,750 -18.98% 44
South West -83 42 £60,000 +20.00% 35
North West -10 29 £37,500 -57.70% 24
Midlands -45 27 £43,000 -28.33% 23
West Midlands -30 20 £43,000 -28.33% 9
Yorkshire -39 20 £37,500 -42.31% 8
North East -30 14 £44,750 -61.09% 8
Scotland -33 14 £39,500 -31.30% 14
East Midlands -35 6 £53,750 -10.42% 14
Wales -48 2 £39,500 -36.29% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 5
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 50 (16.67%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.67%) CMS
4 5 (1.67%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (16.33%) Chatbot
2 12 (4.00%) Simulink
3 3 (1.00%) CATIA
4 2 (0.67%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (4.00%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 80 (26.67%) AWS
2 55 (18.33%) Cloud Computing
3 17 (5.67%) Azure
4 13 (4.33%) Google Analytics
5 7 (2.33%) GCP
5 7 (2.33%) SaaS
6 5 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (1.67%) Snowflake
6 5 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.33%) Google Ads
7 4 (1.33%) Prefect
7 4 (1.33%) Slack
8 2 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.33%) PaaS
9 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.33%) Broadband
2 6 (2.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.67%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.33%) Internet
5 3 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.67%) Firewall
7 1 (0.33%) 5G
7 1 (0.33%) IPsec
7 1 (0.33%) MQTT
7 1 (0.33%) RS-422
7 1 (0.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.33%) Metadata
2 11 (3.67%) Big Data
2 11 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.33%) Hadoop
3 7 (2.33%) Tableau
4 6 (2.00%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.00%) GIS
4 6 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 69 (23.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 36 (12.00%) Git
3 25 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (5.00%) GitLab
5 3 (1.00%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.67%) JIRA
7 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 74 (24.67%) Finance
2 60 (20.00%) Retail
3 55 (18.33%) Manufacturing
4 46 (15.33%) Social Skills
5 35 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (11.67%) Marketing
6 27 (9.00%) Electronics
7 14 (4.67%) Aerospace
8 13 (4.33%) Automotive
9 9 (3.00%) Advertising
10 8 (2.67%) Games
10 8 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.00%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.00%) Banking
13 3 (1.00%) French Language
13 3 (1.00%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.00%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (24.33%) Software Engineer
2 46 (15.33%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (15.33%) Programmer
2 46 (15.33%) Senior
2 46 (15.33%) Trainee
2 46 (15.33%) Trainee Programmer
3 38 (12.67%) Developer
4 26 (8.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (8.00%) FPGA Engineer
5 24 (8.00%) Python Developer
6 23 (7.67%) Embedded Engineer
7 20 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
8 18 (6.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 16 (5.33%) Lead
10 13 (4.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 13 (4.33%) SEO Specialist
11 10 (3.33%) Algorithm Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
11 10 (3.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (23.67%) NumPy
1 71 (23.67%) Pandas
2 52 (17.33%) Matplotlib
2 52 (17.33%) scikit-learn
3 50 (16.67%) Streamlit
4 49 (16.33%) Hugging Face
5 17 (5.67%) HTML
5 17 (5.67%) PyTorch
6 15 (5.00%) TensorFlow
7 13 (4.33%) .NET
8 12 (4.00%) CSS
9 7 (2.33%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.33%) OpenCV
10 6 (2.00%) Flask
10 6 (2.00%) REST
11 5 (1.67%) Ajax
11 5 (1.67%) boto
11 5 (1.67%) Jinja
11 5 (1.67%) Play Framework
11 5 (1.67%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.33%) FPGA
2 23 (7.67%) Embedded Systems
3 21 (7.00%) PCIe
3 21 (7.00%) VHDL
4 17 (5.67%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 12 (4.00%) NVMe
6 11 (3.67%) Robotics
7 10 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
9 8 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.33%) Driving Licence
10 7 (2.33%) Verilog
11 6 (2.00%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.67%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.67%) CUDA
12 5 (1.67%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.33%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (2.33%) Windows
3 6 (2.00%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Android
6 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (35.00%) Software Engineering
2 103 (34.33%) AI
3 92 (30.67%) Machine Learning
4 67 (22.33%) Computer Science
5 64 (21.33%) Visualisation
6 59 (19.67%) LLM
6 59 (19.67%) OOP
7 53 (17.67%) OO
8 52 (17.33%) Workflow
9 51 (17.00%) Signal Processing
10 50 (16.67%) Neural Network
10 50 (16.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 49 (16.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (16.33%) Conversational UI
11 49 (16.33%) Customer Service
11 49 (16.33%) Data Privacy
11 49 (16.33%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (16.33%) Sentiment Analysis
12 38 (12.67%) Analytics
13 34 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 165 (55.00%) Python
2 78 (26.00%) C++
3 39 (13.00%) C
4 38 (12.67%) C#
5 21 (7.00%) MATLAB
6 17 (5.67%) SQL
7 13 (4.33%) Java
8 12 (4.00%) Assembly Language
9 10 (3.33%) Embedded C
9 10 (3.33%) Embedded C++
10 9 (3.00%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.67%) Go
11 8 (2.67%) R
12 5 (1.67%) Rust
12 5 (1.67%) Scala
13 4 (1.33%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.67%) Julia
15 1 (0.33%) Bash
15 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 69 (23.00%) Degree
2 51 (17.00%) AWS Certification
3 49 (16.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 36 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 29 (9.67%) Master's Degree
6 18 (6.00%) SC Cleared
7 17 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (4.67%) DV Cleared
9 13 (4.33%) PhD
10 12 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.67%) MBA
12 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.33%) HND
13 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 5 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.67%) QA
3 4 (1.33%) GDPR
3 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 31 (10.33%) Firmware
2 29 (9.67%) Docker
3 12 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.67%) SCCM
2 5 (1.67%) SCOM
2 5 (1.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (1.33%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.33%) Google
3 18 (6.00%) IBM
4 16 (5.33%) Altera
5 13 (4.33%) Xilinx
6 12 (4.00%) Databricks
7 8 (2.67%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.67%) BT
8 5 (1.67%) Dell
8 5 (1.67%) HP
8 5 (1.67%) McAfee
8 5 (1.67%) VMware
9 3 (1.00%) Botify
9 3 (1.00%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.67%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.33%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.33%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.33%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.33%) Thales
11 1 (0.33%) TikTok