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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 195 108
Rank change year-on-year -114 -87 +74
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 343 482 1,879
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 1.59% 2.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 3.86% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 250 209 556
10th Percentile - £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,600 £73,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £94,522 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%

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 15,449 12,475 24,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.64% 41.11% 31.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,194 5,496 15,535
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,902 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,988 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,359 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -52 117 £70,000 +12.90% 58
North of England -9 68 £37,500 -56.01% 35
East of England -13 65 £65,000 +18.18% 44
South West -89 44 £57,500 +15.00% 39
Midlands -30 33 £37,500 -37.50% 22
North West +3 31 £37,500 -56.01% 17
West Midlands -10 26 £37,500 -37.50% 11
Yorkshire -18 21 £37,500 -47.91% 7
North East -38 16 £52,000 -54.78% 13
Scotland -56 12 £39,500 -31.30% 2
East Midlands -29 6 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Wales -57 2 £39,500 -39.23% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £39,500 - 4
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 51 (14.87%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.17%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (14.29%) Chatbot
2 13 (3.79%) Simulink
3 3 (0.87%) CATIA
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.58%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 12 (3.50%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 81 (23.62%) AWS
2 56 (16.33%) Cloud Computing
3 21 (6.12%) Azure
4 15 (4.37%) Google Analytics
5 9 (2.62%) GCP
6 7 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (2.04%) Google Ads
6 7 (2.04%) SaaS
7 6 (1.75%) GitHub
8 5 (1.46%) Slack
8 5 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) Prefect
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.58%) Serverless
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.21%) Broadband
2 6 (1.75%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.46%) Ethernet
4 4 (1.17%) Internet
5 3 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.58%) Firewall
6 2 (0.58%) Wireless
7 1 (0.29%) 5G
7 1 (0.29%) IPsec
7 1 (0.29%) MQTT
7 1 (0.29%) RS-422
7 1 (0.29%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.83%) Metadata
2 15 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.33%) Big Data
4 7 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.75%) GIS
6 4 (1.17%) MySQL
6 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.17%) Redis
7 3 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.58%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.58%) Tableau
9 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.29%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 71 (20.70%) Visual Studio Code
2 44 (12.83%) Git
3 22 (6.41%) Rational DOORS
4 16 (4.66%) GitLab
5 4 (1.17%) JIRA
6 3 (0.87%) PetaLinux
7 2 (0.58%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 76 (22.16%) Finance
2 60 (17.49%) Retail
3 55 (16.03%) Manufacturing
4 47 (13.70%) Social Skills
5 36 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (9.62%) Marketing
7 28 (8.16%) Electronics
8 19 (5.54%) Automotive
9 16 (4.66%) Aerospace
10 14 (4.08%) Advertising
11 10 (2.92%) Games
12 8 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Aeronautics
14 3 (0.87%) Banking
14 3 (0.87%) French Language
14 3 (0.87%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.87%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.87%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 82 (23.91%) Software Engineer
2 56 (16.33%) Developer
3 46 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 46 (13.41%) Programmer
3 46 (13.41%) Trainee
3 46 (13.41%) Trainee Programmer
4 43 (12.54%) Senior
5 30 (8.75%) Lead
6 28 (8.16%) Embedded Engineer
7 27 (7.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (7.29%) FPGA Engineer
8 25 (7.29%) Python Developer
9 18 (5.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 16 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) SEO Specialist
12 10 (2.92%) Graduate
12 10 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
12 10 (2.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 9 (2.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (20.70%) NumPy
1 71 (20.70%) Pandas
2 54 (15.74%) scikit-learn
3 52 (15.16%) Matplotlib
4 50 (14.58%) Streamlit
5 49 (14.29%) Hugging Face
6 21 (6.12%) PyTorch
7 18 (5.25%) HTML
7 18 (5.25%) TensorFlow
8 16 (4.66%) .NET
9 14 (4.08%) CSS
10 10 (2.92%) React
10 10 (2.92%) REST
11 8 (2.33%) Flask
11 8 (2.33%) OpenCV
12 7 (2.04%) .NET Core
13 6 (1.75%) Node.js
14 5 (1.46%) boto
14 5 (1.46%) Jinja
14 5 (1.46%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.33%) FPGA
2 30 (8.75%) Embedded Systems
3 22 (6.41%) PCIe
3 22 (6.41%) VHDL
4 17 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.96%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.08%) Robotics
6 12 (3.50%) NVMe
7 10 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.92%) Video\Live Streaming
8 9 (2.62%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.33%) Verilog
10 7 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.75%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.46%) CUDA
12 5 (1.46%) IoT
12 5 (1.46%) Over-the-Top Content
12 5 (1.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.29%) Linux
2 7 (2.04%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Robot Operating System
4 5 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.17%) Android
5 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.53%) Software Engineering
2 108 (31.49%) AI
3 91 (26.53%) Machine Learning
4 69 (20.12%) Computer Science
5 62 (18.08%) OOP
6 60 (17.49%) Visualisation
7 56 (16.33%) LLM
7 56 (16.33%) OO
8 54 (15.74%) Signal Processing
9 52 (15.16%) Workflow
10 50 (14.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 49 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 49 (14.29%) Conversational UI
11 49 (14.29%) Customer Service
11 49 (14.29%) Data Privacy
11 49 (14.29%) Neural Network
11 49 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
11 49 (14.29%) Sentiment Analysis
12 41 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (10.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 177 (51.60%) Python
2 86 (25.07%) C++
3 49 (14.29%) C
4 44 (12.83%) C#
5 22 (6.41%) MATLAB
6 18 (5.25%) SQL
7 12 (3.50%) Assembly Language
7 12 (3.50%) Java
7 12 (3.50%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.21%) Embedded C
8 11 (3.21%) Embedded C++
9 10 (2.92%) Go
10 9 (2.62%) TypeScript
11 8 (2.33%) Rust
12 3 (0.87%) R
13 2 (0.58%) Julia
13 2 (0.58%) VBA
14 1 (0.29%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 71 (20.70%) Degree
2 51 (14.87%) AWS Certification
3 49 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 40 (11.66%) Security Cleared
5 25 (7.29%) Master's Degree
6 20 (5.83%) SC Cleared
7 17 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.50%) PhD
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.29%) HND
12 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (2.04%) QA
3 6 (1.75%) GDPR
4 5 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.17%) Automotive SPICE
5 4 (1.17%) ISO 26262
5 4 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 4 (1.17%) MISRA
5 4 (1.17%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 40 (11.66%) Firmware
2 35 (10.20%) Docker
3 18 (5.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.46%) Kubeflow
2 5 (1.46%) SCCM
2 5 (1.46%) SCOM
2 5 (1.46%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (1.17%) Terraform
4 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 57 (16.62%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.58%) Google
3 16 (4.66%) Altera
4 15 (4.37%) IBM
5 13 (3.79%) Xilinx
6 8 (2.33%) Databricks
7 7 (2.04%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.46%) Dell
8 5 (1.46%) HP
8 5 (1.46%) McAfee
8 5 (1.46%) VMware
9 4 (1.17%) TikTok
10 3 (0.87%) Botify
10 3 (0.87%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.87%) Rockwell
11 1 (0.29%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.29%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.29%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.29%) Thales