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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 187 145
Rank change year-on-year -168 -42 +13
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 174 530 1,039
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 1.55% 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.24% 4.52% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 84 285 414
10th Percentile £33,750 £44,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,000 £50,000
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 13,993 11,734 16,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.73% 34.34% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,516 4,967 12,222
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £35,500
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 £69,500 £66,050
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -98 50 £67,500 +8.00% 82
East of England -37 38 £55,000 -27.63% 28
South West -46 28 £51,646 -20.54% 39
Midlands -11 21 £75,000 +25.00% 25
North of England -40 20 £45,000 -20.37% 44
North West +2 15 £45,000 -28.00% 25
West Midlands +8 10 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands -9 9 £75,000 +25.00% 16
Scotland -29 9 £75,900 +68.67% 16
Wales -3 8 £57,500 -1.71% 10
Yorkshire -32 4 £56,700 +26.00% 12
North East -5 1 £37,500 -37.50% 7
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 (6.90%) Kinematics
2 7 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.02%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.87%) IIS
4 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.15%) WordPress
6 1 (0.57%) Apache
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (4.02%) Chatbot
1 7 (4.02%) Simulink
2 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.64%) AWS
2 10 (5.75%) Azure
2 10 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (5.75%) GCP
3 8 (4.60%) Google Analytics
4 5 (2.87%) Google Workspace
4 5 (2.87%) Snowflake
5 4 (2.30%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.15%) Google Docs
7 2 (1.15%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.15%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Slack
8 1 (0.57%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.57%) Firebase
8 1 (0.57%) GitHub
8 1 (0.57%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.57%) PaaS
8 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.45%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.57%) Internet
4 1 (0.57%) S/MIME
4 1 (0.57%) VPN
4 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.20%) Metadata
2 14 (8.05%) Big Data
3 11 (6.32%) Tableau
4 10 (5.75%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.60%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.87%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.72%) Power BI
9 2 (1.15%) Looker
10 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.57%) GIS
10 1 (0.57%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 33 (18.97%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (5.17%) Visual Studio Code
3 7 (4.02%) Git
4 2 (1.15%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) JIRA
5 1 (0.57%) MLflow
5 1 (0.57%) TestRail
General
1 55 (31.61%) Electronics
2 43 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.37%) Finance
5 23 (13.22%) Marketing
6 13 (7.47%) Manufacturing
7 12 (6.90%) Retail
8 8 (4.60%) Aviation
9 7 (4.02%) Automotive
10 6 (3.45%) Aeronautics
10 6 (3.45%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.87%) Banking
11 5 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.87%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.30%) Games
13 3 (1.72%) Avionics
13 3 (1.72%) French Language
13 3 (1.72%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.72%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (17.82%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (16.67%) Lead
2 29 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 28 (16.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 21 (12.07%) Senior
5 19 (10.92%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.05%) Robotics Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Developer
8 8 (4.60%) Embedded Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Algorithm Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 7 (4.02%) FPGA Engineer
9 7 (4.02%) Programmer
9 7 (4.02%) Trainee
9 7 (4.02%) Trainee Programmer
10 6 (3.45%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.45%) SEO Executive
11 5 (2.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) NumPy
1 13 (7.47%) Pandas
1 13 (7.47%) TensorFlow
2 12 (6.90%) Middleware
2 12 (6.90%) scikit-learn
3 11 (6.32%) PyTorch
4 10 (5.75%) FHIR
4 10 (5.75%) Matplotlib
5 9 (5.17%) HTML
6 8 (4.60%) .NET
6 8 (4.60%) CSS
7 7 (4.02%) Hugging Face
7 7 (4.02%) Streamlit
8 5 (2.87%) Play Framework
9 4 (2.30%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.30%) DirectX
9 4 (2.30%) OpenGL
10 3 (1.72%) Seaborn
11 2 (1.15%) Keras
11 2 (1.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.62%) Robotics
2 12 (6.90%) FPGA
2 12 (6.90%) Life Science
3 10 (5.75%) Omics
4 9 (5.17%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (4.60%) 3D Graphics
6 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.02%) PCIe
7 6 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.87%) CUDA
8 5 (2.87%) Social Media
8 5 (2.87%) VHDL
9 4 (2.30%) NVMe
9 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.72%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.72%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.17%) Linux
2 4 (2.30%) Android
2 4 (2.30%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.30%) Unix
3 2 (1.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (36.21%) AI
2 55 (31.61%) Machine Learning
3 51 (29.31%) Software Engineering
4 45 (25.86%) Computer Science
4 45 (25.86%) Signal Processing
5 43 (24.71%) Analytics
6 35 (20.11%) Technical Leadership
7 34 (19.54%) Mathematics
8 33 (18.97%) Data Science
8 33 (18.97%) Systems Engineering
9 28 (16.09%) Test Planning
10 26 (14.94%) Physics
11 23 (13.22%) OO
11 23 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.64%) Agile
12 22 (12.64%) Decision-Making
12 22 (12.64%) Visualisation
13 20 (11.49%) Statistics
14 18 (10.34%) LLM
15 17 (9.77%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.66%) Python
2 50 (28.74%) C++
3 43 (24.71%) C
4 22 (12.64%) C#
5 20 (11.49%) SQL
6 14 (8.05%) Java
6 14 (8.05%) MATLAB
6 14 (8.05%) R
7 11 (6.32%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.02%) Assembly Language
9 5 (2.87%) Bash
9 5 (2.87%) Scala
10 4 (2.30%) Fortran
10 4 (2.30%) Rust
10 4 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.72%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.72%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.72%) Swift
11 3 (1.72%) Tcl
12 1 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 65 (37.36%) Degree
2 42 (24.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 26 (14.94%) Master's Degree
3 26 (14.94%) Security Cleared
4 25 (14.37%) PhD
5 22 (12.64%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.87%) MBA
9 4 (2.30%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.57%) CEH
11 1 (0.57%) CISM
11 1 (0.57%) CISSP
11 1 (0.57%) GIAC
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.75%) CDISC
3 10 (5.75%) GxP
3 10 (5.75%) HL7
4 7 (4.02%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (2.87%) ISO 26262
7 4 (2.30%) IEC 61508
8 2 (1.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.57%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.57%) GDPR
9 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (9.77%) Firmware
2 8 (4.60%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.15%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.57%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 29 (16.67%) IBM
2 20 (11.49%) Google
3 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.60%) Screaming Frog
5 7 (4.02%) Altera
5 7 (4.02%) Databricks
6 5 (2.87%) Ahrefs
6 5 (2.87%) BT
7 4 (2.30%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.15%) Adobe
8 2 (1.15%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.57%) Foundry
9 1 (0.57%) Huawei
9 1 (0.57%) SAP
9 1 (0.57%) Thales
9 1 (0.57%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.57%) YouTube