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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 229 280
Rank change year-on-year -27 +51 -99
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 323 513 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.05% 1.08%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 3.59% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 134 248 213
10th Percentile £32,350 £43,750 £36,466
25th Percentile £40,015 £50,090 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,600 £71,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £84,750
UK median annual salary £70,600 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +8.62% -7.90% -4.63%

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 12,797 14,296 12,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.37% 29.28% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 6,285 6,310 8,754
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +2.14%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

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 22 October 2025.

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 22 October 2025. 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 -59 97 £65,000 -3.70% 253
Scotland +32 82 £75,900 +34.32% 16
East of England +24 61 £55,000 -12.00% 74
South West 0 40 £40,792 -32.01% 43
North of England -13 20 £35,000 -38.06% 61
Midlands -5 17 £67,500 +18.94% 36
North West -16 13 £41,750 -21.60% 33
West Midlands +25 10 £57,500 +5.99% 18
Yorkshire +9 7 £35,000 -41.67% 9
Wales +14 6 £73,250 - 8
East Midlands -7 5 £75,900 +26.50% 17
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 23 (7.12%) Kinematics
2 11 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.10%) Apache
4 8 (2.48%) Camunda
4 8 (2.48%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.86%) CMS
6 4 (1.24%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.24%) WordPress
7 3 (0.93%) Kentico
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.93%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Simulink
2 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.31%) Mathcad
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.86%) AWS
2 18 (5.57%) Google Analytics
3 15 (4.64%) Vertex AI
4 13 (4.02%) Azure
4 13 (4.02%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.10%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.79%) GCP
7 7 (2.17%) npm
7 7 (2.17%) Yarn
8 6 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.55%) Google Docs
9 5 (1.55%) Google Sheets
9 5 (1.55%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.55%) Serverless
10 4 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.93%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (0.93%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.79%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (1.24%) Internet
3 2 (0.62%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.62%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.62%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (0.62%) Modbus
3 2 (0.62%) MQTT
4 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.95%) NoSQL
2 15 (4.64%) Data Mining
3 14 (4.33%) Big Data
3 14 (4.33%) Metadata
4 13 (4.02%) Power BI
5 11 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (3.10%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.48%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.86%) Parquet
11 5 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.55%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
11 5 (1.55%) Looker
11 5 (1.55%) Tableau
12 4 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.24%) KDB
12 4 (1.24%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 47 (14.55%) Rational DOORS
2 14 (4.33%) JUnit
3 9 (2.79%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.48%) webpack
5 7 (2.17%) Git
5 7 (2.17%) Vite
6 5 (1.55%) GitLab
6 5 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.55%) JIRA
7 3 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.93%) TestRail
7 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.31%) Ant
8 1 (0.31%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.31%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.31%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) Protractor
8 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 109 (33.75%) Finance
2 105 (32.51%) Law
3 92 (28.48%) Electronics
4 89 (27.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 82 (25.39%) Social Skills
6 68 (21.05%) Marketing
7 58 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
8 44 (13.62%) Banking
9 20 (6.19%) Retail
10 13 (4.02%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.48%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.48%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.17%) Legal
14 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.24%) Automotive
15 4 (1.24%) Aviation
15 4 (1.24%) Games
15 4 (1.24%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.24%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 105 (32.51%) Software Engineer
2 67 (20.74%) Lead
3 47 (14.55%) Systems Engineer
4 44 (13.62%) Java Engineer
4 44 (13.62%) Java Software Engineer
5 41 (12.69%) Senior
6 37 (11.46%) Principal Engineer
7 36 (11.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 27 (8.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 26 (8.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 23 (7.12%) Robotics Engineer
11 17 (5.26%) Python Engineer
11 17 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
12 13 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.02%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) SEO Executive
14 11 (3.41%) SEO Manager
14 11 (3.41%) SEO Specialist
15 10 (3.10%) Senior Systems Engineer
16 9 (2.79%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.31%) Spring
2 34 (10.53%) React
3 31 (9.60%) Spring Boot
4 23 (7.12%) Middleware
5 22 (6.81%) Kafka
6 20 (6.19%) CSS
7 19 (5.88%) HTML
8 15 (4.64%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.10%) FHIR
9 10 (3.10%) REST
9 10 (3.10%) scikit-learn
9 10 (3.10%) Web Services
10 9 (2.79%) RESTful
10 9 (2.79%) TensorFlow
11 8 (2.48%) JDBC
11 8 (2.48%) OpenAPI
11 8 (2.48%) PyTorch
11 8 (2.48%) Swagger
11 8 (2.48%) WSDL
12 7 (2.17%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.67%) Robotics
2 14 (4.33%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.41%) Life Science
4 10 (3.10%) Omics
4 10 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.48%) Blog
6 7 (2.17%) 3D Graphics
6 7 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.86%) VHDL
8 5 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.55%) FPGA
8 5 (1.55%) Verilog
9 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.24%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.93%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.02%) Linux
2 4 (1.24%) Unix
3 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.62%) Windows
5 1 (0.31%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (43.03%) Software Engineering
2 122 (37.77%) Agile
3 119 (36.84%) AI
4 114 (35.29%) Machine Learning
5 113 (34.98%) Visualisation
6 91 (28.17%) SDLC
7 85 (26.32%) Community of Practice
8 81 (25.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (24.77%) Operational Stability
10 77 (23.84%) CI/CD
11 74 (22.91%) Analytics
12 70 (21.67%) Signal Processing
13 58 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (17.96%) Systems Engineering
14 56 (17.34%) Computer Science
15 55 (17.03%) Data Science
16 51 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
17 43 (13.31%) Mathematics
18 36 (11.15%) Test Planning
19 34 (10.53%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 95 (29.41%) Python
2 88 (27.24%) Java
3 60 (18.58%) C++
4 52 (16.10%) C
5 41 (12.69%) SQL
6 35 (10.84%) C#
7 26 (8.05%) JavaScript
8 19 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.64%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.79%) Bash
11 8 (2.48%) R
12 5 (1.55%) Swift
13 4 (1.24%) Fortran
13 4 (1.24%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.24%) Rust
13 4 (1.24%) Scala
14 3 (0.93%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.93%) Tcl
15 2 (0.62%) VC++
Qualifications
1 78 (24.15%) Degree
2 65 (20.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 30 (9.29%) Master's Degree
4 29 (8.98%) PhD
5 28 (8.67%) Security Cleared
6 21 (6.50%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (16.10%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.10%) CDISC
3 10 (3.10%) GxP
3 10 (3.10%) HL7
4 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.62%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.62%) ISO 26262
5 2 (0.62%) JTAG
5 2 (0.62%) QA
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (2.17%) Docker
1 7 (2.17%) Firmware
2 2 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.95%) Terraform
3 4 (1.24%) Ansible
4 2 (0.62%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.62%) Grafana
Vendors
1 52 (16.10%) Google
2 47 (14.55%) IBM
3 27 (8.36%) Microsoft
4 18 (5.57%) Oracle
5 17 (5.26%) Screaming Frog
6 16 (4.95%) OpenAI
7 14 (4.33%) Ahrefs
8 10 (3.10%) Splunk
9 9 (2.79%) Databricks
9 9 (2.79%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.24%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.93%) SAP
12 2 (0.62%) Adobe
12 2 (0.62%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.62%) NVIDIA
12 2 (0.62%) Veritas
13 1 (0.31%) Huawei
13 1 (0.31%) MathWorks
13 1 (0.31%) Sybase
13 1 (0.31%) TIBCO