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 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 181 139
Rank change year-on-year -176 -42 +35
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 168 539 991
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 1.55% 2.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 4.52% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 81 294 373
10th Percentile £33,750 £44,125 £38,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,430 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,900 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.77% -3.70% -6.90%

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 13,935 11,912 15,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.04% 34.29% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,504 5,096 11,375
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £36,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -11.54%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -102 49 £67,500 +8.00% 94
East of England -38 36 £55,000 -27.63% 29
South West -42 28 £51,646 -20.54% 43
Midlands -8 20 £75,000 +25.00% 29
North of England -29 18 £45,000 -17.44% 49
North West +3 13 £55,000 -7.57% 29
West Midlands +1 10 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Scotland -31 9 £75,900 +68.67% 18
Wales -2 8 £57,500 -1.71% 12
East Midlands -19 8 £75,000 +25.00% 20
Yorkshire -32 4 £55,450 +23.22% 14
North East -2 1 £37,500 -37.50% 6
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 12 (7.14%) Kinematics
2 7 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.98%) IIS
4 4 (2.38%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.19%) WordPress
7 1 (0.60%) Apache
7 1 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Simulink
2 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.38%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.31%) AWS
2 10 (5.95%) Azure
2 10 (5.95%) GCP
3 7 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (3.57%) Google Analytics
5 5 (2.98%) Google Workspace
5 5 (2.98%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.38%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (1.79%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.19%) Google Docs
8 2 (1.19%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) Slack
9 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.60%) Firebase
9 1 (0.60%) GitHub
9 1 (0.60%) Google App Engine
9 1 (0.60%) PaaS
9 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.57%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (1.19%) Broadband
2 2 (1.19%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.60%) S/MIME
3 1 (0.60%) VPN
3 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.33%) Big Data
1 14 (8.33%) Metadata
2 11 (6.55%) Tableau
3 10 (5.95%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.98%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.79%) Power BI
8 2 (1.19%) Looker
9 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.60%) GIS
9 1 (0.60%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (4.17%) Git
3 6 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.60%) JIRA
5 1 (0.60%) TestRail
General
1 55 (32.74%) Electronics
2 41 (24.40%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.10%) Finance
5 21 (12.50%) Marketing
6 10 (5.95%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.76%) Aviation
8 7 (4.17%) Retail
9 6 (3.57%) Aeronautics
9 6 (3.57%) Aerospace
10 5 (2.98%) Automotive
10 5 (2.98%) Banking
10 5 (2.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.38%) Games
12 3 (1.79%) Avionics
12 3 (1.79%) French Language
12 3 (1.79%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.79%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (1.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (18.45%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (17.26%) Principal Engineer
3 28 (16.67%) Lead
3 28 (16.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 21 (12.50%) Senior
5 19 (11.31%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.33%) Robotics Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Developer
8 8 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
9 7 (4.17%) Algorithm Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.57%) SEO Executive
11 5 (2.98%) Data Science Manager
11 5 (2.98%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Firmware Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) FPGA Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Senior Manager
12 4 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 4 (2.38%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.14%) Middleware
1 12 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 10 (5.95%) FHIR
2 10 (5.95%) NumPy
2 10 (5.95%) Pandas
2 10 (5.95%) PyTorch
3 9 (5.36%) HTML
3 9 (5.36%) scikit-learn
4 8 (4.76%) .NET
4 8 (4.76%) CSS
5 7 (4.17%) Matplotlib
6 5 (2.98%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.38%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.38%) DirectX
7 4 (2.38%) Hugging Face
7 4 (2.38%) OpenGL
7 4 (2.38%) Streamlit
8 3 (1.79%) Seaborn
9 2 (1.19%) Keras
9 2 (1.19%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Robotics
2 12 (7.14%) Life Science
3 10 (5.95%) FPGA
3 10 (5.95%) Omics
4 9 (5.36%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (4.76%) 3D Graphics
6 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.98%) CUDA
8 5 (2.98%) PCIe
8 5 (2.98%) Social Media
9 4 (2.38%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.38%) VHDL
10 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.79%) NVMe
10 3 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.79%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.36%) Linux
2 4 (2.38%) Android
2 4 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.38%) Unix
3 2 (1.19%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (34.52%) AI
2 51 (30.36%) Machine Learning
2 51 (30.36%) Software Engineering
3 45 (26.79%) Computer Science
4 44 (26.19%) Signal Processing
5 41 (24.40%) Analytics
6 34 (20.24%) Mathematics
6 34 (20.24%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (19.64%) Systems Engineering
8 32 (19.05%) Data Science
9 28 (16.67%) Test Planning
10 26 (15.48%) Physics
11 23 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.10%) Agile
12 22 (13.10%) Decision-Making
13 20 (11.90%) OO
13 20 (11.90%) Statistics
14 19 (11.31%) Visualisation
15 15 (8.93%) Data Analysis
15 15 (8.93%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (38.10%) Python
2 48 (28.57%) C++
3 41 (24.40%) C
4 21 (12.50%) C#
5 19 (11.31%) SQL
6 14 (8.33%) Java
6 14 (8.33%) MATLAB
6 14 (8.33%) R
7 11 (6.55%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.57%) Assembly Language
9 5 (2.98%) Bash
9 5 (2.98%) Scala
10 4 (2.38%) Fortran
10 4 (2.38%) Rust
10 4 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.79%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.79%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.79%) Swift
11 3 (1.79%) Tcl
12 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 65 (38.69%) Degree
2 42 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 27 (16.07%) Master's Degree
4 26 (15.48%) Security Cleared
5 24 (14.29%) PhD
6 22 (13.10%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.98%) MBA
9 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.60%) CEH
11 1 (0.60%) CISM
11 1 (0.60%) CISSP
11 1 (0.60%) GIAC
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.95%) CDISC
3 10 (5.95%) GxP
3 10 (5.95%) HL7
4 7 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (3.57%) ISO 26262
6 4 (2.38%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.19%) AUTOSAR
7 2 (1.19%) NIST
8 1 (0.60%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.60%) GDPR
8 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (8.93%) Firmware
2 7 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.19%) Functional Safety
1 2 (1.19%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (17.26%) IBM
2 18 (10.71%) Google
3 10 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.76%) Screaming Frog
5 6 (3.57%) Databricks
6 5 (2.98%) Ahrefs
6 5 (2.98%) Altera
6 5 (2.98%) BT
7 3 (1.79%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.19%) Adobe
8 2 (1.19%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.60%) Foundry
9 1 (0.60%) Huawei
9 1 (0.60%) SAP
9 1 (0.60%) Thales
9 1 (0.60%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.60%) YouTube