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 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 134 97
Rank change year-on-year -210 -37 +56
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 230 546 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 2.10% 2.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 5.94% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 148 298 521
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £67,625 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,270 £86,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 16,163 9,199 22,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.52% 35.44% 34.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,818 5,188 15,024
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,770 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -133 62 £60,000 -3.23% 101
North of England -71 54 £37,500 -47.91% 56
South West -90 36 £50,000 -16.67% 56
Midlands -54 31 £52,500 -12.50% 48
East of England -98 30 £37,500 -50.66% 48
North West -42 28 £37,500 -57.70% 28
West Midlands -14 20 £40,250 -32.92% 21
Yorkshire -54 18 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Scotland -34 10 £37,500 -16.67% 18
East Midlands -59 10 £75,000 +25.00% 27
North East -29 8 £37,500 -63.86% 14
Wales -34 7 £57,500 -4.17% 8
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 49 (21.30%) Jupyter
2 7 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.17%) CMS
4 5 (2.17%) IIS
5 2 (0.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.87%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (21.30%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.74%) Simulink
3 3 (1.30%) CATIA
4 2 (0.87%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.91%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 73 (31.74%) AWS
2 52 (22.61%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.22%) Google Analytics
4 11 (4.78%) Azure
5 9 (3.91%) GCP
6 5 (2.17%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.74%) Prefect
8 2 (0.87%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.87%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.87%) SaaS
8 2 (0.87%) Slack
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (0.43%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.43%) Firebase
9 1 (0.43%) GitHub
9 1 (0.43%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.43%) PaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) Broadband
2 5 (2.17%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.17%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.87%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) IPsec
5 1 (0.43%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.83%) Metadata
2 10 (4.35%) Big Data
3 9 (3.91%) Tableau
4 7 (3.04%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.61%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.17%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.74%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 56 (24.35%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (10.87%) Rational DOORS
3 21 (9.13%) Git
4 7 (3.04%) GitLab
5 2 (0.87%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 64 (27.83%) Finance
2 60 (26.09%) Retail
3 56 (24.35%) Manufacturing
4 37 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (13.48%) Marketing
6 29 (12.61%) Social Skills
7 28 (12.17%) Electronics
8 13 (5.65%) Automotive
9 12 (5.22%) Games
10 9 (3.91%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.17%) Aviation
11 5 (2.17%) Banking
11 5 (2.17%) Legal
11 5 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.30%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.30%) French Language
13 3 (1.30%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.30%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (20.00%) Programmer
1 46 (20.00%) Trainee
1 46 (20.00%) Trainee Programmer
2 33 (14.35%) Software Engineer
3 30 (13.04%) Developer
4 25 (10.87%) Senior
5 21 (9.13%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (6.96%) Python Developer
7 15 (6.52%) FPGA Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (5.65%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 11 (4.78%) Embedded Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) Algorithm Engineer
11 9 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Graduate
12 8 (3.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) SEO Specialist
13 7 (3.04%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 7 (3.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (29.13%) NumPy
1 67 (29.13%) Pandas
2 53 (23.04%) scikit-learn
3 52 (22.61%) Matplotlib
4 49 (21.30%) Hugging Face
4 49 (21.30%) Streamlit
5 17 (7.39%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.52%) TensorFlow
7 13 (5.65%) HTML
8 11 (4.78%) .NET
9 8 (3.48%) CSS
10 7 (3.04%) OpenCV
11 6 (2.61%) REST
12 5 (2.17%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.17%) Play Framework
12 5 (2.17%) SciPy
13 4 (1.74%) DirectX
13 4 (1.74%) JAX
13 4 (1.74%) OpenGL
13 4 (1.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.57%) FPGA
2 13 (5.65%) PCIe
3 12 (5.22%) VHDL
4 9 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.91%) NVMe
5 8 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.04%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (2.61%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.17%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.17%) CUDA
8 5 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.17%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.17%) Social Media
9 4 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.74%) Robotics
10 3 (1.30%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.22%) Linux
2 6 (2.61%) Windows
3 4 (1.74%) Android
3 4 (1.74%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (41.74%) AI
2 95 (41.30%) Machine Learning
3 66 (28.70%) Visualisation
4 65 (28.26%) Software Engineering
5 62 (26.96%) LLM
6 59 (25.65%) OO
7 57 (24.78%) OOP
8 52 (22.61%) Workflow
9 51 (22.17%) Neural Network
9 51 (22.17%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 50 (21.74%) Data Privacy
10 50 (21.74%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (21.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (21.30%) Conversational UI
11 49 (21.30%) Customer Service
11 49 (21.30%) Sentiment Analysis
12 42 (18.26%) Computer Science
13 37 (16.09%) Signal Processing
14 36 (15.65%) Analytics
15 28 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 129 (56.09%) Python
2 52 (22.61%) C++
3 29 (12.61%) C
4 25 (10.87%) C#
5 21 (9.13%) SQL
6 11 (4.78%) Java
6 11 (4.78%) R
7 9 (3.91%) Assembly Language
7 9 (3.91%) MATLAB
8 7 (3.04%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.61%) Go
10 5 (2.17%) Scala
11 4 (1.74%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.87%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.87%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.87%) Julia
12 2 (0.87%) Rust
12 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 52 (22.61%) Degree
2 49 (21.30%) AWS Certification
2 49 (21.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 24 (10.43%) Master's Degree
4 17 (7.39%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (5.65%) PhD
7 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.48%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.17%) MBA
10 3 (1.30%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.43%) CEH
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) GIAC
11 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.17%) QA
4 4 (1.74%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.74%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.30%) GDPR
6 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.87%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (9.57%) Firmware
2 13 (5.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (4.78%) Docker
4 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.74%) SCCM
1 4 (1.74%) SCOM
1 4 (1.74%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (1.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.57%) Google
3 20 (8.70%) IBM
4 13 (5.65%) Altera
5 11 (4.78%) Databricks
6 10 (4.35%) Screaming Frog
6 10 (4.35%) Xilinx
7 5 (2.17%) BT
8 4 (1.74%) Ahrefs
8 4 (1.74%) Dell
8 4 (1.74%) HP
8 4 (1.74%) McAfee
8 4 (1.74%) VMware
9 3 (1.30%) Botify
9 3 (1.30%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.87%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.87%) Thales
11 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) SAP