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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 138 95
Rank change year-on-year -206 -43 +59
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 233 542 1,860
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 2.08% 2.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.44% 5.86% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 151 296 522
10th Percentile - £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £48,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £67,750 £76,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 16,209 9,253 23,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.44% 35.54% 34.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,848 5,192 15,101
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,716 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,325 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,445 £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 13 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 13 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 -132 64 £60,000 -3.23% 117
North of England -70 54 £37,500 -47.91% 45
South West -88 37 £50,000 -16.67% 50
Midlands -53 31 £52,500 -12.50% 34
East of England -100 30 £37,500 -50.66% 63
North West -38 28 £37,500 -57.70% 19
West Midlands -10 20 £40,250 -32.92% 16
Yorkshire -59 18 £37,500 -28.57% 15
Scotland -27 10 £37,500 -16.67% 14
East Midlands -60 10 £75,000 +25.00% 18
North East -29 8 £37,500 -63.86% 11
Wales -34 7 £57,500 -4.17% 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 49 (21.03%) Jupyter
2 7 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.15%) CMS
4 5 (2.15%) IIS
5 2 (0.86%) Confluence
5 2 (0.86%) Kinematics
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (21.03%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.72%) Simulink
3 3 (1.29%) CATIA
4 2 (0.86%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (3.86%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 73 (31.33%) AWS
2 52 (22.32%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (5.15%) Google Analytics
4 11 (4.72%) Azure
5 9 (3.86%) GCP
6 5 (2.15%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.72%) Prefect
8 2 (0.86%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.86%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.86%) SaaS
8 2 (0.86%) 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 (3.00%) Broadband
2 5 (2.15%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.15%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.86%) 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 (7.73%) Metadata
2 10 (4.29%) Big Data
3 9 (3.86%) Tableau
4 7 (3.00%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.58%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.58%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.15%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.72%) 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 57 (24.46%) Visual Studio Code
2 25 (10.73%) Rational DOORS
3 22 (9.44%) Git
4 8 (3.43%) GitLab
5 2 (0.86%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 64 (27.47%) Finance
2 60 (25.75%) Retail
3 56 (24.03%) Manufacturing
4 37 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (13.30%) Marketing
6 29 (12.45%) Social Skills
7 28 (12.02%) Electronics
8 13 (5.58%) Automotive
9 12 (5.15%) Games
10 9 (3.86%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.15%) Aviation
11 5 (2.15%) Banking
11 5 (2.15%) Legal
11 5 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.29%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.29%) French Language
13 3 (1.29%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.29%) Portuguese Language
13 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (19.74%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 46 (19.74%) Programmer
1 46 (19.74%) Trainee
1 46 (19.74%) Trainee Programmer
2 34 (14.59%) Software Engineer
3 32 (13.73%) Developer
4 26 (11.16%) Senior
5 21 (9.01%) Systems Engineer
6 18 (7.73%) Python Developer
7 15 (6.44%) FPGA Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (5.58%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 11 (4.72%) Embedded Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) Algorithm Engineer
10 10 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.43%) Graduate
11 8 (3.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 8 (3.43%) SEO Specialist
12 7 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 7 (3.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (29.61%) NumPy
1 69 (29.61%) Pandas
2 53 (22.75%) scikit-learn
3 52 (22.32%) Matplotlib
4 49 (21.03%) Hugging Face
4 49 (21.03%) Streamlit
5 17 (7.30%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.44%) TensorFlow
7 13 (5.58%) HTML
8 11 (4.72%) .NET
9 8 (3.43%) CSS
10 7 (3.00%) OpenCV
11 6 (2.58%) REST
12 5 (2.15%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.15%) Play Framework
12 5 (2.15%) SciPy
13 4 (1.72%) DirectX
13 4 (1.72%) JAX
13 4 (1.72%) OpenGL
13 4 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.44%) FPGA
2 13 (5.58%) PCIe
3 12 (5.15%) VHDL
4 9 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.86%) NVMe
5 8 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.00%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (2.58%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.15%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (2.15%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.15%) CUDA
8 5 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.15%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.15%) Social Media
9 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.72%) Robotics
10 3 (1.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.15%) Linux
2 6 (2.58%) Windows
3 4 (1.72%) Android
3 4 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.86%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (41.20%) AI
2 95 (40.77%) Machine Learning
3 66 (28.33%) Software Engineering
3 66 (28.33%) Visualisation
4 62 (26.61%) LLM
5 59 (25.32%) OO
6 57 (24.46%) OOP
7 52 (22.32%) Workflow
8 51 (21.89%) Neural Network
8 51 (21.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 50 (21.46%) Data Privacy
9 50 (21.46%) Prompt Engineering
10 49 (21.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 49 (21.03%) Conversational UI
10 49 (21.03%) Customer Service
10 49 (21.03%) Sentiment Analysis
11 43 (18.45%) Computer Science
12 40 (17.17%) Signal Processing
13 36 (15.45%) Analytics
14 28 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 132 (56.65%) Python
2 53 (22.75%) C++
3 29 (12.45%) C
4 26 (11.16%) C#
5 21 (9.01%) SQL
6 11 (4.72%) Java
6 11 (4.72%) R
7 9 (3.86%) Assembly Language
7 9 (3.86%) MATLAB
8 7 (3.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.58%) Go
10 5 (2.15%) Scala
11 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.86%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.86%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.86%) Julia
12 2 (0.86%) Rust
12 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 53 (22.75%) Degree
2 49 (21.03%) AWS Certification
2 49 (21.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 25 (10.73%) Master's Degree
4 17 (7.30%) Security Cleared
5 16 (6.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (5.58%) PhD
7 8 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.43%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.15%) MBA
10 3 (1.29%) 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 (6.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.15%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.15%) QA
4 4 (1.72%) IEC 61508
4 4 (1.72%) ISO 26262
5 3 (1.29%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.86%) 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 (9.44%) Firmware
2 13 (5.58%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (4.72%) Docker
4 4 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.72%) SCCM
1 4 (1.72%) SCOM
1 4 (1.72%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.86%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (23.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.44%) Google
3 20 (8.58%) IBM
4 13 (5.58%) Altera
5 11 (4.72%) Databricks
6 10 (4.29%) Screaming Frog
6 10 (4.29%) Xilinx
7 5 (2.15%) BT
8 4 (1.72%) Ahrefs
8 4 (1.72%) Dell
8 4 (1.72%) HP
8 4 (1.72%) McAfee
8 4 (1.72%) VMware
9 3 (1.29%) Botify
9 3 (1.29%) Rockwell
10 2 (0.86%) Hotjar
10 2 (0.86%) Thales
11 1 (0.43%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.43%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.43%) SAP